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Roland Gesthuizen

Think twice before using Twitter as a data source » Nieman Journalism Lab - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • All that’s not to say that Twitter’s not incredibly useful as a data source
  • Just be aware of its limits and be careful about assuming what it produces represents any larger reality
  • different versions of Twitter data can return different — sometimes even mutually contradictory — results
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jul 13
     
    "At Source, Jacob Harris notes that, as appealing as the Twitter API may be as a source of what-people-are-thinking data, it's hardly perfect. Twitter's demographics aren't representative of either Internet users as a whole or the broader population, and geocoding data is sparse and inconsistent. "
John Pearce

Using Angry Birds to teach math, history and science - 0 views

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shared by John Pearce on 20 May 11 - No Cached
  • John Pearce on 20 May 11
     
    "It doesn't seem to matter what age group or demographic that I talk to, kids (and adults) everywhere are fans of Angry Birds. As I was playing around with Angry Birds (yep I'm a fan too), I started thinking about all of the learning that could be happening. I have watched a two year old tell an older sister that "you have to pull down to go up higher". I have watched as kids master this game through trial and error. Being the teacher that I am, I started dreaming up a transdisciplinary lesson with Angry Birds as the base. I happened to be writing an inquiry lesson that has students look at inventions throughout time and thought: the catapult-that is an invention that has technology and concepts that are used even today. This is one of those inspirational moments that comes when you are drifting off to sleep and has you frantically searching for paper and pen to record as fast as the ideas come. So what did I do? I got myself out of bed and went to work sketching out a super awesome plan. Here is the embedded learning that I came up with"
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