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Reid Cornwell's Blog – June 2011 Archive (3)

Shut up and Listen if you want deep learning: Andrew Stevenson

JOHN HATTIE has spent his life studying the studies to find out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up.

Professor Hattie, appointed this year as the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, says teachers need to stop spending 80 per cent of their time in class talking and start listening.

''When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place,'' he told a conference of educators at Parramatta…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on June 25, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

What is the Technological Singularity? : Joel Falconer

Moore’s Law has been around for 46 years. It’s a descriptor for the trend we’ve seen in the development of computer hardware for decades, with no sign of slowing down, where the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.

The law is named after Gordon Moore, who described this pattern in 1965. He would know a thing or two about integrated circuits. He co-founded Intel in 1968.

Moore has said in recent years that there’s about…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on June 21, 2011 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

More than 4,000 National Academies Press PDFs Now Available to Download for Free: by Barb Murphy

The National Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—are committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible. Since 1994 we have offered “Read for Free” options for almost all our titles. In addition, we have been offering free downloads of most of our titles to everyone and of all titles to readers in the developing world. We are now going one step further. Effective June 2nd, PDFs of… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on June 2, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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