Archive for December, 2006

The Education Wonks: The Rise Of The Teaching Machines? – Thoughts And Ideas Freely Exchanged

Monday, December 18th, 2006

The Education Wonks: The Rise Of The Teaching Machines? – Thoughts And Ideas Freely Exchanged

I’m not sure that this is it, but something like it will be useful, someday.

Reading Rockets : Ten Myths About Learning to Read

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Reading Rockets : Ten Myths About Learning to Read

Nice summary, based largely on Phil Gough’s ideas (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I’d probably quibble a bit with #7 and #8, but to a first approximation and for instructional purposes, a useful summary of some important myths about reading.

Reading thousands of books is not as useful as travelling for a thousand miles

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Oneaday
Reading thousands of books is not as useful as travelling for a thousand miles

Subcam

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Saadi Lahlou – subcam is something I need to check out.

here’s some more information

Elan

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I’m spending the day at the University of Chicago at a workshop organized by Bennett Bertenthal and his SIDgrid project.

I need to check out this tool when I get home: Elan, from MPI-Netherlands.