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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Faith talk
Via Relevant, some tips on talking about one's faith:"As you confront people’s ideas and argue with their religion, seek to learn their stories.""As you talk about God and faith, resist the temptation to try and move people anywhere. That’s God’s job.""As you...
Faith talk
Via Relevant, some tips on talking about one's faith:"As you confront people’s ideas and argue with their religion, seek to learn their stories.""As you talk about God and faith, resist the temptation to try and move people anywhere. That’s God’s job.""As you...
Police, citizens and technology factor into Boston bombing probe
Via Boing Boing and The Washington Post: How federal and local investigators sifted through that ocean of evidence and focused their search on two immigrant brothers is a story of advanced technology and old-fashioned citizen cooperation. It is an object lesson in how...
Disrupting the grading process and thereby disrupting teachers
Via American Interest: EdX is making this system available for free online to all schools that want it, and four states are already using a similar program in public high schools. Some like the new technology because it can provide students with instant feedback when...
Disrupting the grading process and thereby disrupting teachers
Via American Interest: EdX is making this system available for free online to all schools that want it, and four states are already using a similar program in public high schools. Some like the new technology because it can provide students with instant feedback when...
‘The New York Times’ Has Built A Haiku Bot
Via Business Insider: But why build a haiku bot? “A lot of the projects we work on here are these incredibly big heaves, which are very, very gratifying,” said Mainland. “But you crave these smaller projects, which are just as valuable.” Similarly, projects like the...
‘The New York Times’ Has Built A Haiku Bot
Via Business Insider: But why build a haiku bot? “A lot of the projects we work on here are these incredibly big heaves, which are very, very gratifying,” said Mainland. “But you crave these smaller projects, which are just as valuable.” Similarly, projects like the...
MOOCs: Will Online Education Ruin the University Experience? | New Republic
Via New Republic: In one form or another, the online future is already here. But unless we are uncommonly wise about how we use this new power, we will find ourselves saying, as Emerson’s friend Henry David Thoreau said about an earlier technological revolution, “We...