There are an estimated 800 million car parking spaces in the US – one for every car It amounts to about 3,515 square miles (9,104 sq km) Covering this whole area with solar panels could generate enough electricity to power 11 million households for a month Covering only 50% of this area with trees could remove 1,260,805 tons of carbon dioxide per year Source Continue reading Car parks
Much emphasis was given to technology enhanced learning at the ‘Festival of Education’ held at Wellington College in June 2012. I got interested in screencasting and bought myself a Bamboo medium fun tablet (and it comes with 3 softwares Art Rage, Photoshop elements and Corel, purchased from amazon for £160), an Yeti microphone (£95) and camtasia studio 8 (~£100) to record screen movements. Fantastic help … Continue reading Using technology in the classroom Part I
William J Rapaport is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at SUNY Buffalo, USA. He has put together some of his thoughts on ‘How to Study’. OUTLINE and INDEX: Introduction Manage your time Take notes in class & rewrite them at home Study hard subjects first & study in a quiet place Read texts actively & slowly, before & after class Do your … Continue reading How To Study
Excerpts from the book ‘The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs‘ by Carmine Gallo. 1. Set the theme. “There is something in the air today.” With those words, Jobs opened Macworld. By doing so, he set the theme for his presentation (BusinessWeek.com, 1/15/08) and hinted at the key product announcement—the ultrathin MacBook Air laptop. Every presentation needs a theme, but you don’t have to deliver it … Continue reading How to do a presentation like Steve Jobs
This is a video I made on iPad using the Screenchomp app from Techsmith. Continue reading Computation Quiz 1
These are some interesting quotes from the article published in The New Yorker ‘More and more Americans are going to college, but how many of them are actually learning anything?’ ‘Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes … Continue reading Debating the value of college education in America
Educational videos Learning is undoubtedly more effective through visual interactive materials. Though traditional textbook continues to be a major educational resource, thanks to the Net, lecture videos are fast becoming an alternative learning tool. As you may be aware, tens of hundreds of video tutorials on a variety of subjects are available. Brightstorm, the service that offers several free videos on subjects such as science, mathematics and English is one … Continue reading Education Resources on the internet
How learning happens: 10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they see and hear 70% of what they talk over with others 80% of what they use and do in real life 95% of what they explain to someone else Continue reading How students learn
Interesting article on Stanford from ‘The New Yorker‘. Interdisciplinary education. This is the philosophy now promoted at the various schools at Stanford—engineering, business, medicine, science, design—which encourages students from diverse majors to come together to solve real or abstract problems. The goal is to have them become what are called “T-shaped” students, who have depth in a particular field of study but also breadth across multiple disciplines. Stanford … Continue reading T-shaped graduates
Festival of Education 23rd June The festival started off with a short film made especially for this event by Paul McCartney on Vegetarianism. According to a recent report by the UN, livestock is responsible for 18 % of all greenhouse gases. McCartney has started a campaign called ‘Meat Free Monday’ and has put together a cook book with that name. His argument is that grown-ups … Continue reading Festival of Education
Perpetual Motion of Thought 