Archive for August, 2010
Evan and I went to Home Depot for the monthly kid’s workshop craft. Today, he built a desktop pencil holder shaped like a schoolbus.
strong headwinds on the ride home, made visible in the blowing grasses along twelve mile coulee
Bill pulls responses to 3 recent articles (and I’d argue a fourth – the Bill Gates “education is the web” thing ) together with a single sentence:
Just to emphasize, whenever anyone talks about “delivering” education, the implication is that learning is a passive activity that can be brought to people – in other words, getting us back into “consuming” mode.
Learning is active. There’s no getting around that. Therefore, an effective education involves much more than simple content distribution. Framing education as being a series of exercises in content consumption (no matter how great the content may be) doesn’t serve anyone well. It’s also not as simple as grafting on a layer of social networking on top of content. Education and learning are so much more than that.
I went with Evan to his swimming lesson this morning, at the outdoor pool near his school. Not a great morning to be in an outdoor pool, but he had a blast swimming with his friend.
I tried to capture some of the Perseids show tonight. I saw one meteor and train, but the glow of the clouds drowned it out. Hopefully I’ll get another chance tomorrow night…
I just updated the excellent Relevanssi search index plugin (it makes the search feature of WordPress actually WORK, with relevant results rather than the lame built-in search). It reports on the top words in the search index. I’m a little surprised at the results (but, looking over the words in just this short post, I probably shouldn’t be…).
- just (1226)
- like (846)
- i’m (820)
- i’ve (675)
- really (557)
- new (538)
- time (517)
- use (500)
- stuff (494)
- got (477)
- way (474)
- using (461)
- pretty (443)
- blog (441)
- cool (428)
- that’s (426)
- i’ll (408)
- don’t (388)
- going (387)
- update (387)
- work (376)
- people (375)
- things (370)
- post (368)
- sure (365)
I’m kinda surprised that “awesome” isn’t high up that list…
It looked like it’d be another race home before a severe thunderstorm hit. funnel clouds were spotted northwest of the city, but nothing at my house (yet…)
With the CEO of Google declaring privacy as a thing of the past (along with Zuckerberg and Facebook), how do we reconcile that with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, specifically Article 12:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Google thinks it’s a good idea to interfere with the privacy of every internet user on the planet, so that it can continue to make billions of dollars by selling the information they gather, as well as using that information to better target advertising.
The UN, and nations that are signatories of the Declaration, think that privacy is kinda handy.
Which side should we be backing?
as I was riding home, I could see a system moving in, with many rainy squalls and distant lightning. it kept me pushing hard, despite the headwind, and I managed to get home in record time – about 2 minutes before the monsoon hit my house.