Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever – The Verge —Gets a bit hyperbolic (you can’t understand instagram? really?) but does get at some of the tension between skills/understandings that are needed vs patterns that might be changed Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student […]
Month: September 2021
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-09-12
Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages | Scientific Reports The research described herein is motivated by a conceptual paradigm shift, namely, that learning to use modern programming languages resembles learning a natural language, such as French or Chinese, in adulthood. Specifically, we argue that research on the neurocognitive bases of […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-09-05
Kim Moran-Jones on Twitter: “And done! A year of temperature minima and maxima, and UK COVID deaths, recorded in fabric. Data visualisation has a new medium? https://t.co/6EyMsHec6S” / Twitter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-08-29
Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web — Smashing Magazine This piece will cover some of my experiences in doing this, as well as my current thoughts on optimizing websites for carbon emissions, and some practical examples of things you can do to improve your own pages. […]