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Matt Renwick

When a Bookstore Closes, an Argument Ends - The New Yorker - 21 views

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bookstore argument ends

shared by Matt Renwick on 30 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • once a bookstore is gone we lose the particular opportunities for adjacency it offers,
  • Restaurants, bookstores, cafés—on a grander scale railway stations, on a lesser one chessboards near park benches—are the sinews of civil society.
  • Enlightenment happened more often in a café than a classroom.
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  • By atomizing our experience to the point of alienation—or, at best, by creating substitutes for common experience (“you might also like…” lists, Twitter exchanges instead of face-to-face conversations)—we lose the common thread of civil life.
  • Books are not just other luxury items to be shopped for. They are the levers of our consciousness.
elsjekool

Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg - 35 views

www.bloomberg.com/...2015-paul-ford-what-is-code

shared by elsjekool on 14 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • There are keynote speakers—often the people who created the technology at hand or crafted a given language. There are the regular speakers, often paid not at all or in airfare, who present some idea or technique or approach. Then there are the panels, where a group of people are lined up in a row and forced into some semblance of interaction while the audience checks its e-mail.
  • Fewer than a fifth of undergraduate degrees in computer science awarded in 2012 went to women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology
  • The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers
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  • The true measure of a language isn’t how it uses semicolons; it’s the standard library of each language. A language is software for making software. The standard library is a set of premade software that you can reuse and reapply.
  • A coder needs to be able to quickly examine and identify which giant, complex library is the one that’s the most recently and actively updated and the best match for his or her current needs. A coder needs to be a good listener.
  • Code isn’t just obscure commands in a file. It requires you to have a map in your head, to know where the good libraries, the best documentation, and the most helpful message boards are located. If you don’t know where those things are, you will spend all of your time searching, instead of building cool new things.
  • Some tools are better for certain jobs.
  • C is a simple language, simple like a shotgun that can blow off your foot. It allows you to manage every last part of a computer—the memory, files, a hard drive—which is great if you’re meticulous and dangerous if you’re sloppy
  • Object-oriented programming is, at its essence, a filing system for code.
  • Where C tried to make it easier to do computer things, Smalltalk tried to make it easier to do human things.
  • Style and usage matter; sometimes programmers recommend Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style—that’s right, the one about the English language. Its focus on efficient usage resonates with programmers. The idiom of a language is part of its communal identity.
  • Coding is a culture of blurters.
  • Programmers carve out a sliver of cognitive territory for themselves and go to conferences, and yet they know their position is vulnerable.
  • Programmers are often angry because they’re often scared.
  • Programming is a task that rewards intense focus and can be done with a small group or even in isolation.
  • For a truly gifted programmer, writing code is a side effect of thought
  • As a class, programmers are easily bored, love novelty, and are obsessed with various forms of productivity enhancement.
  • “Most programming languages are partly a way of expressing things in terms of other things and partly a basic set of given things.”
  • Of course, while we were trying to build a bookstore, we actually built the death of bookstores—that seems to happen a lot in the business. You set out to do something cool and end up destroying lots of things that came before.
  • Siri Anderson on 14 Jun 15
     
    A lengthy but worthy read for all non-programmers on code.
  • elsjekool on 15 Jun 15
     
    Explains code
Enid Baines

The Presurfer: Banned Books - 25 views

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banned books

shared by Enid Baines on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • During Bookmans' 36-year fight against censorship, the shattered light bulb emerged as a powerful symbol of the importance of free speech.
  • In this video, combining passages from banned books read by customers and employees, Bookmans created a statement about how books inform, engage and inspire the light in each of us.
  • Enid Baines on 18 Sep 12
     
    Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, created this video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out.
Ed Webb

Bookstore | Cornell University Library Digital Collections - 1 views

bookstore.library.cornell.edu

resources

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09
     
    Some potentially useful, and hitherto rare/hard to find primary sources here
Maryann Angeroth

A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 - Online Bookstore - iNACOL - 50 views

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onlinelearning K12

shared by Maryann Angeroth on 04 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Maryann Angeroth on 04 Feb 11
     
    Download the research 
Bob Rowan

Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail | Video on TED.com - 26 views

www.ted.com/...wired_on_tech_s_long_tail.html

ADVIS Retreat collaboration education technology

shared by Bob Rowan on 04 May 11 - Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 04 May 11
     
    describes how books that previously wouldn't have been available in bookstores now outsell the better known books that sell larger quantities (there a lot of these "niche" books that sell to smaller audiences)
Siri Anderson

Seeing White - Scene on Radio - 9 views

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podcast race whiteness series history DruryLaneBooks US_history

shared by Siri Anderson on 03 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Siri Anderson on 03 Oct 18
     
    Excellent podcast series to learn about the "history of white people" and how race was actively constructed to create our current context. Thanks to Gwen at the Drury Lane Bookstore in Grand Marais for turning me on to this! Very accessible -- although trigger warning content is very disturbing. Preview if you teach younger students.
Carrie Stringer

Jan Brett's Blog - 0 views

janbrettsblog.com

shared by Carrie Stringer on 20 Feb 13 - Cached
  • In this book I had three elements of color that I knew were going to be influential.
    • Carrie Stringer
      Carrie Stringer on 20 Feb 13
       
      What three element of color does Brett list as influential to her new book's illustrations?
  • When the book is about half completed, we (my editor, art director, and designer, Margaret, Cecilia and Marikka) start thinking about the jacket design, probably the most important image in the book. That is when some of the colors that tell the story can be used, and they will add to personality of the book.
  • As a child, the part of the Cinderella story I liked best was the transformation of the mice, pumpkin and rat to coach, footman and coachman.
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  • Thank you everyone for entering the contest on my website, for a school visit. I will never forget the wonderful people in Windsor, Newfoundland where I visited last spring. Next time I go, I would like to drive and go on the ferry, so I can stop and see things, and go out whale and bird watching. There is one Moose for every 4 people in Newfoundland, so I would hope to see a Moose as well. Windsor is not a large town, so don’t get discouraged about the contest if your community is not large. The website tabulates how many “likes” they have put on the Facebook page.
  • Now that I’m back in my art studio, I am hard at work on CINDERS which I need to complete by just after Christmas. I took special time with the jacket, a very important element in the book, because it asks the viewer to open the book and read it.
  • Thank you to everyone who attended my booksignings. I hope many of you had fun drawing Mossy along with me. If you weren’t able to go to a booksigning, you can see the How To Draw demonstration on a video on my website.
  • Truthfully, a chicken is hard to paint and to capture its beauty.
  • Since I begin work on the story in January, December is the time I’m tying things together – in this case my “chicken” Cinderella story.
  • Normally, a children’s picture book has 32 pages, but in this one instance the printer will configure the dimension of the pages so they will open up from a folded position so I will have twice as much space to draw the dancing chickens.
  • Next time you are in a bookstore you can see the work of some of the world’s most talented book designers on the jackets of the books. The size and shape of the letters are important, as well as where they are placed on the jacket, and the color too
Martha Hickson

5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core State Standards - 40 views

www.eyeoneducation.com/...5ThingsCCSS_Davis.pdf

common_core

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  • Martha Hickson on 08 Jul 12
     
    The Common Core State Standards highlight five shifts that should be happening in every classroom. Teachers should: * Lead High-Level, Text-Based Discussions * Focus on Process, Not Just Content * Create Assignments for Real Audiences and with Real Purpose * Teach Argument, Not Persuasion * Increase Text Complexity
Kathleen N

School Change Consulting - The Global Achievement Gap - Tony's new book is now availabl... - 0 views

www.schoolchange.org/...in_bookstores_and_online!.html

schoolChange 21C

shared by Kathleen N on 21 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Kathleen N on 23 Apr 09
     
    A bold new plan to teach and test the competencies that matter most for the 21st Century-and to motivate the "net" generation to excellence The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It
Randolph Hollingsworth

IGI Global - Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Ap - 42 views

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teaching global 3D gaming virtual

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 01 Mar 11
     
    Pretty cool book on how to use 3D as well as any other kind of robust user-generated-content platform in teaching and learning
Beth Panitz

Helping Students Motivate Themselves - 175 views

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leadership motivation students helping resources

shared by Beth Panitz on 12 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Beth Panitz on 12 Jun 11
     
    by Larry Ferlazzo. Elementary, middle, high school level.
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