Archive for the 'education' Category

Lectures | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

collection of lectures on economics from Steve Keen

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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”

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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)

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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.

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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

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Don Knuth’s Home Page

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

this shouldn’t need any notes

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youtube.com/ucberkeley

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

UC Berkeley Lectures on Youtube

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