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[cdixon-deactivated20191029]

"My favorite proverb of all is the one that says for every proverb, there is an equal and opposite proverb. In this case, we should note that the proverb about not putting all your eggs in one basket is not necessarily a sound engineering principle. The right answer depends on the margin of error and on the per-basket failure rate. It also greatly depends on the chance of correlated, uncorrelated, and anti-correlated basket failures. Sometimes the best way to get your eggs from point A to point B is to put them all in one basket and take really good care of that basket."

http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/secure-random.htm (via cdixon)

[socraticorg]

Technology in education has historically been a story of control and limited access.

The main sources of information for students were their textbooks and their teachers. Both were limited: either in content, or in time. Research happened in libraries, closed after school. Lab computers...

[shreyansb]

Starting to articulate why we're building Socratic, and for whom.

[socraticorg]

Great teaching is transformative. None of us at Socratic would be where we are today if it weren’t for the teachers who shaped us.

The best teachers have the power to take any idea, no matter how difficult, and make it accessible, relatable, and exciting. But teaching is complex and nuanced, and...

[shreyansb]

Maligne lake. Beautiful and bear free.

[ashaegupta]

Terrifying. The only thing being learned in this classroom is complacency. That’s pretty much the most dangerous virus we could be infecting the next generation with. 

Thank god this guy had the resolve to stand up to this.

[shreyansb]

Google Street View Hyperlapse

[shreyansb]

Dreamtime VI

[shreyansb]

Here are enshrined the longing of great hearts and noble things that tower above the tide, the magic word that winged wonder starts, the garnered wisdom that never dies.

[shreyansb]

Toumani Diabeté's Symmetric Orchesta - Tapha Niang

[shreyansb]

d'oh!

[shreyansb]

boulder creek, wolves...

[shreyansb]

***** mix

[shreyansb]

ATB meets the XX. Two decades collide. Bumping.

via this fantastic mix: https://soundcloud.com/andhim/andhim-live-at-fusion-festival

The XX - Crystalised (Edu Imbernon Remix)

[shreyansb]

"…educators in Wisconsin are offering a possible solution by decoupling the learning part of education from student assessment and degree-granting.

Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple, competency-based bachelor’s degrees from a public university system. Officials encourage students to complete their education independently through online courses, which have grown in popularity through efforts by companies such as Coursera, edX and Udacity.

No classroom time is required under the Wisconsin program except for clinical or practicum work for certain degrees."

via The University of Wisconsin Flexible Option via Marginal Revolution

[shreyansb]

It's outrageous that a digital copy of any particular recording of this speech could or should be privately owned, and that MLKs family should control who views a speech that belongs less to them and more to the people.

--- For Internet Freedom! Share MLK's copyrighted "I Have A Dream Speech" (by Screenhugger)

[shreyansb]

the hidden curriculum might include the messages and lessons derived from the mere organization of schools -- the emphasis on: sequential room arrangements; the cellular, timed segments of formal instruction; an annual schedule that is still arranged to accommodate an agrarian age; disciplined messages where concentration equates to student behaviors were they are sitting up straight and are continually quiet; students getting in and standing in line silently; students quietly raising their hands to be called on; the endless competition for grades, and so on. The hidden curriculum may include both positive or negative messages, depending on the models provided and the perspectives of the learner or the observer

the hidden curriculum, and other ways we learn

[shreyansb]

Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA" (by F2C2012)