So, there aren’t really any incentives to teach well [as an economics professor]. No one really cares how you teach. But what I quickly learned… Read More »Steve Levitt on teaching, learning and having fun
I’ve been using Python with pandas on and off to automate analysis of reading-test data at the non-profit where I work. If you’re regularly analysing… Read More »Resources: Python (pandas) for Data Analysis
Charles Severance‘s Python for Everybody is “the most popular programming course in the world, since 2014.” The course is completely free – and re-useable and… Read More »Charles Severance: Why Program?
I recently came across Kalid Azad’s Better Explained, and recommend that you check it out. It’s a fantastic resource in itself, and has lots of… Read More »Recommendation: Better Explained with Kalid Azad
Flippity.net has a load of clever templates that turn Googlesheets into various educational things. We’ve just used the “Manipulatives” template to make this card-sorting game… Read More »Resource recommendation: online card-sorting game maker from Flippity
Here’s the secret, I think: teaching is empathy.If you have a bad teacher, who is strict for no reason, who says “there will be a… Read More »Seth Godin on good teachers
This is a fantastic interview that takes Andy Matuschak‘s controversially titled essay as a springboard for a not-really-controversial but fascinating discussion of teaching, learning and… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Econtalk – Andy Matuschak on Why Books Don’t Work
Planning is essential in education, but it’s easy to fall into the habit of treating your session plan or presentation as a set of inputs… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading