Interactive: Seeking Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine What kind image interactions have value in history (or anywhere else for that matter)? tags: interactive lincoln abraham history smithsonian weekly New York man sharpens pencils for $35 a pop – New York News I wonder what kind of interactive images we might make as ITRTs as part of history content. tags: interactive abraham lincoln smithsonian history image weekly itrt William Shakespeare’s Terminator the Second – Neatorama “re-wrote the script for the movie Terminator 2 using only lines from the works of William Shakespeare.” tags: william shakespeare terminator weekly project english World’s Quietest Room Will Drive You Crazy in 30 Minutes : Discovery News “The key to the level of silence is the fact that the walls, floor and ceiling absorb all sound, rather than reflecting it, as most surfaces do. Thus the term anechoic: no echo. It’s so quiet, you can hear your own organs: your heart, stomach, even your ears, which make a tiny amount of noise. It turns out that it’s not an especially pleasant experience, especially in the dark. The longest anyone has ever spent alone in the chamber? Forty-five minutes.” tags: weekly silence db sound My Little Bag of Writing Tricks – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of […]

dy/dan » Blog Archive » If Math Is The Aspirin, Then How Do You Create The Headache? “Think of yourself as someone who sells aspirin. And realize that the best customer for your aspirin is someone who is in pain. Not a lot of pain. Not a migraine. Just a little. Piaget called that pain “disequilibrium.” Neo-Piagetians call it “cognitive conflict.” Guershon Harel calls it “intellectual need.” I’m calling it a headache. I’m obviously not originating this idea but I’d like to advance it some more. One of the worst things you can do is force people who don’t feel pain to take your aspirin. They may oblige you if you have some particular kind of authority in their lives but that aspirin will feel pointless. It’ll undermine their respect for medicine in general.” tags: weekly itch headache urge math dydan meyer question force Lessons from the principal of a Kentucky school that went from one of the worst to one of the best under Common Core – The Hechinger Report Like the SBG stuff from Shawn Cornally (think, thank, thunk). Be nice to see more of this in higher ed. “Probably the biggest gains came after we let students start developing learning objectives based on the standards. We would actually give the students the standards and ask them, ‘What […]