May 14th, 2013 at 1:51PM
(via APOD: 2013 April 30 - Humanity Explores the Solar System) Nice image. Note the crowding on Mars? That’s why the Titan mission might have been a better choice than MSL2…just a thought.

(via APOD: 2013 April 30 - Humanity Explores the Solar System)

Nice image. Note the crowding on Mars?

That’s why the Titan mission might have been a better choice than MSL2…just a thought.

Source: apod.nasa.gov #space#science#satellites#probes#exploration#planetary science#NASA#ESA#Roscosmos#JAXA#Can't remember what China's space agency is called (Chang'E 2 is theirs)#I'm not even going to try to list all the missions here
May 14th, 2013 at 12:25PM

(via APOD: 2013 May 14 - Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations)

Images Credit: NASA, ESA; Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI); Simulation: Chris Mihos (CWRU) & Lars Hernquist (Harvard).

Intersperse computer simulation of a galaxy collision with actual Hubble images of galaxies mid-collision and you get the feeling we know, pretty well, what happens when galaxies collide.

This is important because it means we’ve got a good handle on the larger-structure evolution of the universe at the galaxy level. We need to be sure of this if we’re going to do thought experiments, make theories, and test with observations into the ancient universe what it should look like in the past.

Source: apod.nasa.gov #APOD#NASA#space#astronomy#science#galaxy#simulation#collision#astrophysics#cosmology#Hubble Space Telescope#HST
May 13th, 2013 at 1:51PM
(via 27 Things You Had To Deal With As The Only Black Kid In Your Class) Just… *sigh* A whole list of 25…

(via 27 Things You Had To Deal With As The Only Black Kid In Your Class)

Just… *sigh*

A whole list of 25…

55 notes Source: BuzzFeed #PoC#education#I guess we'll call it 'Existing While Black'?#race relations#racism
May 5th, 2013 at 10:02PM

Things to do in Milwaukee…

…when you’re done with an EdCamp in South Milwaukee and you drove 2 hours to get there?

I’m not currently in Wisconsin, but it’s a possibility for Saturday, so I thought I’d turn to my tumblr peeps.

Keeping in mind that Jack sometimes has mobility issues, ideas?

2 notes #info#edcamp#Milwaukee#anyone got some hot tips?
April 30th, 2013 at 5:54PM

Sick time

Apparently, my response to being really sick last night and most of today is to apply to another teaching job, finish the supplemental application to the summer teaching job, test-fold the smaller 5-petal rose, email the customer about paper choices, and work on the companion earring-sized paper crane that Jack wanted me to make.

3 notes #random#sick#who knows
April 26th, 2013 at 12:26PM
Is the take-home message, then, that cheating is good? Well…no. Although by conventional test-taking rules, the students were cheating, they actually weren’t in this case. Instead, they were changing their goal in the Education Game from “Get a higher grade than my classmates” to “Get to the best answer.” This also required them to make new rules for test taking. Obviously, when you make the rules there is no reason to cheat. Furthermore, being the rule-makers let students behave in a way that makes us a quintessentially unique species. We recognize when we are in a game, and more so than just playing along, we always try to bend the rules to our advantage. —

Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?

When your students live the lesson, they learn better. IN this case, they also learn about learning.
3 notes Source: blogs.kcrw.com #education#game theory#teaching#testing
April 23rd, 2013 at 6:09PM
Why your 8-year-old should be coding | VentureBeat

Tynker: http://www.tynker.com/

For young kids: visual logic programming, the first step.

Treehouse: http://teamtreehouse.com/

For young adults, life-skills in an environment they get.

CodeAcademy: http://www.codecademy.com/

For everyone, learn to hack, because it’s good for you.
2 notes #teaching#education#coding#STEM#computers#programming
April 23rd, 2013 at 4:43PM
Life Pieces is doing something I’ve never seen before,” Taylor Sr. says. “It’s like they take a personal interest in your child, and we have young men teaching younger men how to be men. And I love it. — In D.C., Art Program Turns Boys’ Lives Into ‘Masterpieces’ : NPR
Source: NPR #education#young black men#youth#arts#creativity#meditation
April 23rd, 2013 at 12:25PM
Young People: Don't Be Afraid to Become a Teacher! | Edutopia

It’s not a profession to enter lightly. You won’t get the kind of professional respect that doctors or lawyers do…even if you should. It’s more of a calling. But, like a calling, it does not go easily ignored.
3 notes #teaching#education#Preach!#calling#profession
April 16th, 2013 at 4:43PM
What else? Well, nothing in American parenting is anything like the concept of ng’om, which is used by the Kipsigis people in rural Kenya to describe children who are especially intelligent and responsible. This concept of intelligence, as Harkness and Super have written, highlights “aspects of social competence, including responsibility and helpfulness.” These aspects, they add dryly, “have tended to be overlooked in Western formal theories of children’s intelligence. —

Parental ethnotheories and how parents in America differ from parents everywhere else.

Y’know what? I’d like to call for a massive adoption of ng’om as a concept of childrearing in America, right f-ing now, because I keep seeing too much bullying and sexual violence among children lately.
5 notes Source: Slate #parenting#responsibility#intelligence#multiple intelligences#ethnotheories#ethnocentrism