Education Focus
- How We Know That Humans Are Getting Smarter [Excerpt]: Scientific American On the Flynn effect of rising IQ
- Donald Clark Plan B: James Pillans – never heard of him? He invented ‘chalk and talk'... Another of Don Clark's excellent vignettes on educational innovators--and charlatans, such as Bandler NLP: No Longer Plausible: training’s shameful, fraudulent cult?
- Finnish education guru Pasi Sahlberg In Conversation: full transcript Finnish education is near the top of the PISA league tables. This is an Australian interview with one of its most influential figures.
- What You Need to Know About MOOC's (The Chronicle of Higher Education)... Useful information resource and links: and I'm posting on a MOOC on this blog. Until I get so bored I give up, that is. Oh, Historiann is commenting on the same MOOC.
- A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD - Megan Garber (The Atlantic)... A bit nerdy, perhaps, but if you were captivated by the enormous scrolling graphic I linked to last week, you may well want to read.
- Proportion Control (NYTimes.com) On the "golden ratio" a.k.a. phi roughly 1:1.618
- Here’s the foreword to my new book. – Bad Science Ben Goldacre's new book, that is, on Bad Pharma.
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