Cultural artifact: Tonight’s class homework is to go register an account with Khan Academy and add your teacher as a coach. But what if they want a different coach? Easily done.
Tag Archives: school
On Tuesday, July 21 around 11 pm Pacific, I stumbled across a serious information security flaw in DuckWeb, the University of Oregon’s student information portal. For some of the work I’ve been doing with Publish2, I’ve been paying close attention to the composition and beauty of URLs. When printing out my degree audit for a trip down to Eugene the next day, I realised that the print version of the degree audit had a unique string of digits at the end of the URL. Curious, I changed the last two, refreshed, and ended up with someone else’s degree audit.
Parallels between schools and newspapers
There’s an excellent post on the Union Square Ventures blog about the small Hacking Education conference they had a couple months back. One remark I’d like to highlight: Fred [Wilson] is suggesting that the education industry may soon face the same challenges that currently confront… Continue reading →
Appropriate mediums for appropriate conversations
The administration of Whitman College, the school I went to for my freshman year, has decided to cut funding to its Varsity Alpine and Nordic ski teams. The community is in uproar about this decision; if you aren’t on one of the teams, then you… Continue reading →
Parallels between journalism and education
I’ve got an email thread going with John Lowe of the Detroit Free Press, and it’s conversations like these that make me wish there was a better tool for having transparent, but directed conversations. The discussion topic is education, specifically the current university system, and… Continue reading →
Education needs a reboot too
The internet makes the world a smaller place and a stronger community. For this, I am thankful. I’ve started an interesting conversation with Max Marmer about higher education, ways in which it is currently unsatisfactory, and what can be done to fix it. Here’s his… Continue reading →
Condom Fashion Show
As a part of World AIDS Day/Week, a few student organizations put on a Condom Fashion Show last Friday: Dave Martinez, Photo Editor at the Daily Emerald, posted nice images on Up Close, and Isaac Viel uploaded a number to Flickr. Next time, we’re going… Continue reading →
Collaborative education
Via Snarkmarket and Digidave, Michael Wesch talks about harnessing the collective intelligence of the classroom: Huge, huge thoughts here. It’s worth watching the entire 10 minute interview. First, he flips conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that large class sizes actually allow him to teach… Continue reading →
Peripheral education
There are two points I’d like to argue about education as it stands today. For one, the traditional university system is fundamentally incompatible with the information transformation we’re now swimming in. This redesign will have to happen in the next decade, or else major pipes… Continue reading →
Saturday night at the Campbell Club
Hungry hungry rapperz?