Archive for the 'education' Category

Lectures | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

collection of lectures on economics from Steve Keen

What’s Wrong With the American University System – Culture – The Atlantic

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”

Carolyn Blogs » Blog Archive » Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

good wrote-up about usefulness of power point (which I hate with a passion)

ivan krstić · code culture » Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Ivan Krstić [former chief sec guy for OLPC, designer of bitfrost ] writes about OLPC failure in his blog. Entertaining! Read it if u have spare 40 minutes.

STSC CrossTalk – Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? – Jan 2008

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

A talk or sort of open letter complaining about decline of quality of CS education in USA, and in particular “java school” approaches

Don Knuth’s Home Page

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

this shouldn’t need any notes

youtube.com/ucberkeley

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

UC Berkeley Lectures on Youtube