Posts
- Category: education
- are IQ tests really worth anything?
- boredom is not the problem…
- Bring Your Own Device…
- Google’s World Wonders Project
- how to search...
- Learning to code II
- readin, writin, arithmetic
- there is still a future for cursive writing
- typing and reading do change our brains and minds
- What Data Abundance means for students…
- What is data, what is knowledge?
- Where is the mind?
- with technology, can students just teach themselves?
- Category: Future
- a billion smartphones
- A frontier too far...
- are IQ tests really worth anything?
- are we getting smarter...or dumber?
- can you get smarter?
- developing your brain
- For computers: it's the end of the world as we know it...
- have we really made any progress?
- if computers become smarter...than us
- Is the universe alive?
- It may be too late for passwords...
- it’s time to retool...
- Now soon will the 3D revolution begin?
- of man and machine
- Our view of the universe...
- running out of time?
- the Astrolabe
- the differences between the present and the future are about to blur
- The Kardashev Scale
- the long now...
- the Megacity
- there is still a future for cursive writing
- too many words?
- visualizing the universe
- What comes after tablets?
- what is expertise worth...
- will the singularity come, or is it already here?
- with technology, can students just teach themselves?
- your mouse will be gone soon...
- Category: history
- Category: iOS
- Bluetooth guitar rigs...
- For computers: it's the end of the world as we know it...
- gadgets for use with your computer (part I)
- improve your online security
- iPads rule the tablet world
- magazines…
- Notability
- The greenest iPhone speaker
- Where iOS takes over the world…
- Category: iPad
- Apples pads its lead…
- Barnes & Noble’s Kindle Killer?
- Blogsy
- CES Griffin stompbox app
- cheap iPad stands…
- Content creation
- Digital textbooks
- GarageBand for iPad
- Honeycomb
- How fast is the iPad 2?
- How we use our iPads
- iOS 4.3
- iPad 2 gossip coverage…
- iPad encryption…
- iPad music gear
- iPad music stuff…
- iPad styli
- iPad suite of jazz guitar study apps
- iPad tools for student…
- IPad use amongst the new users…
- iPad video apps
- iPad…or Godzilla?
- iPads in school
- iPads rule the tablet world
- is the iPad unbeatable?
- Jazz History app for the iPad
- Mashups in literature
- mastering the iPad’s keyboard
- Other uses for the iPad
- pen and paper…
- penultimate
- Prezi for iPad
- PrivateInfo-HD
- Problematic iPad apps…
- Pulse News and Flipboard
- Reactable
- ShowMe
- so, you got an iPad for Christmas…
- social networking apps for the iPad…
- Some new (and good) iPad apps
- some office apps for everyone
- The Daily
- The iPad at one year…
- the obligatory iPad post...
- Thought controlled iPad
- Which is greener?
- Why tablets?
- Writing code on an iPad?
- Zite
- Zite bullied…
- Category: iPhone
- Are smartphones our future in computing?
- cheap/simple stands for the iPhone
- Folders Pro
- HeyTell for iPhone
- How personal technology has changed the world
- iOS math apps…
- iPhone local hotspot
- IPhone photography
- JotNot pro
- Panoramic video from the iPhone…
- Smartphones are worth the money...
- Smartphones…in bed?
- The greenest iPhone speaker
- Uses for the iPhone
- Category: languages
- does language shape our thoughts?
- How many languages can you learn?
- Learning to code II
- more strange words…
- so many computer languages (part III)
- the hardest math problems...
- there is still a future for cursive writing
- typing and reading do change our brains and minds
- why learning another language is always a good thing
- Category: Misc
- ‘We’ are pretty dumb…
- (UN) intended consequences…
- 10% of our brains…
- 150 years?
- 1868 Harvard Entrance exam
- 1879 fifth graders!
- 2,000 MPG…
- 21st century jobs…
- 21st century skills…
- 21st century teacher
- 3 more questions
- 3 more questions for February
- 3 more questions for February…
- 3 questions
- 3D printing…
- 4 great books…
- 60 second maps…again
- 82% of schools left behind…
- a 360 view of the sun
- A college education…
- a couple questions about education…
- A disruptive future…
- a few questions for Friday
- a few small changes to this site…
- a flood of science links…
- A land where your data is yours…
- A micro hut for the summer…
- a modest proposal…
- a movie review you should check out…
- a potpourri… again
- Africa is slowly coming online!
- aggregate or curate?
- aging musicians…
- Altoids tins
- American English dialects
- an amazing card trick
- an education or your brand?
- an online bookshelf to look over…
- Another Potpourri…
- another potpourri…
- Arduino!
- are books dead?
- are colleges in something worse than a bubble?
- are newer tools better?
- are schools a dead idea?
- are we alone?
- Argument
- Around the world with only $2.00 in your pocket
- ArtFinder
- Astronomy news…
- at the center of the Galaxy…
- Battle of Talus, Battle of Tours
- Be careful of all of the hype!
- beginning guitar (I)
- beginning guitar… thoughts
- Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced…?
- Big Data
- Bilingualism advantages
- Blind spots…
- Blogging is still not dead
- bon mots…
- books and books…
- Books for summer reading…
- Books of the future…
- Boredom is a virtue…
- Boredom is important...
- bottled water is better than you think…
- Brain Bugs…
- Brain Fitness
- Brain Training Gyms…
- Brainpickings.org
- Browser add-ons
- Bubbles
- by 2020…
- Byliner
- Caesar’s last breath…
- Caffeine and computers…
- Cell phone revolution…
- Changes I have seen since I started this blog…
- Chess as learning?
- Chess perception
- Churchill’s parrot…
- Cloud music comparisons
- Codebreaking
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Colleges and Money
- Colleges still have a few problems...
- Color and Language
- computer personalization
- Crazy jet flyby
- create a blog using only the iPad!
- Cryptids…
- Curation may be the future…
- Curation?
- cursive writing…
- Cyber Warfare…
- Deliberate practice
- Digital Countries…
- Digital Life in 2015
- DigiTech IPB-10
- Do we live in a hologram?
- does Apple own the future?
- does Apple rule?
- Does Writing Make Us Smarter?
- don’t know much about history…
- Dreaming
- Dunbar’s number with social networking
- education and families
- Education Infographics
- Educators Misunderstand Students!
- Endhiran
- Engineering versus Liberal Arts…
- English Classes…
- Ephaptic consciousness…
- ePUB3!
- eReader as modern Walkman…
- eReader shortcomings…
- European Cultural History…free…
- Everyone should be a teacher
- Facebook vs. Google…
- Feathered Bipeds
- Finnish teachers…
- Flipping classes
- Formality…
- Four Year Old Questions
- Free College?
- Free Will
- Free Will redux…
- Fruity loops for the iPad!
- Future books
- Future commerce…
- Future Intelligence
- Göbekli Tepe
- Generalists…
- Getting a ‘real’ education…
- Google Chromebook
- Google Takeout
- Google Wallet…
- Google+
- Google+ The reviews…
- Gotterdammerung?
- Grade Inflation
- Great Books
- great books for free!
- guitar strings
- Gutenberg to Google
- Handwriting
- has literacy changed?
- here are some words you probably don’t use…
- Hiatus
- Higher Ed Crisis
- Hiroshima and Detroit
- home brew…steel?
- How do you teach someone to think?
- How many people wear corrective lenses?
- How not to present an argument…
- How the argument changes…
- how the world can change without you knowing about it…
- how to actually get good…
- How to boost IQ
- how to really get into the cloud…
- How to sharpen your language skills…
- human rights…
- I see some irony here…
- I’m a writer, not a reader…
- I’m back…
- Immortality
- Improvisation and thinking
- India and the future
- Infinity…
- information about the future of the education system: part I
- information about the future of the education system: part II
- iPad input apps…
- iPads for young children…
- is a degree still worth anything?
- is College too hard? Really?
- is copying more important now?
- is grading obsolete?
- is plagiarism still a problem?
- is the internet over?
- Is there really a need to go to college?
- is this a harbinger of doom for colleges?
- is this our future?
- is this the real future of online learning…
- it’s all Tolkien’s fault…
- It’s not the volts that will kill you…
- Italo Calvino
- James Joyce…now
- jobs in the future…
- Joshua Slocum
- just what is Stupidity?
- Kill Math!
- Korean POW’s at Normandy
- Kurzweil and the Turing test
- Laptops for students
- Latin
- Learning coding…
- library…or seed store…?
- Life in a shoebox…
- light pollution…
- Livescribe updates…
- Logical Fallacies
- long term demographic problems
- Long Term Memory use…
- Lytro
- Mapping history
- masters of human nature
- Math Phobias…
- maybe teachers aren’t the answer…
- Maybe this is all good news…
- Measure of the Earth
- Media shifting…
- Melencholia I
- Memento Mori
- Memes
- Memorization…
- memory upgrades…for us?
- Merv
- Mervyn Peake’s centennial
- mind exercises
- Modern Art
- More archaeology goodies…
- more beginning guitar thoughts…
- more DropBox tricks
- more literature choices…
- more media consumption apps…
- more new forms of media…
- More of don’t know much about history…
- More on Dreaming…
- more on the future of education…
- more on the future of learning…
- More on the Science-Humanities cage match
- more problems with education
- More Questions…
- more uses for EverNote
- my free photo blog…
- my last posting about education this year!
- my own top 8 list for the future…
- my year end science and technology links…
- new reading skills
- NFC…
- No Higgs Boson…yet.
- not knowing…
- nothing is really free, even social media!
- Old Books...
- old musicians
- One penny…
- Online guitar tools
- only two questions…
- Open Source Textbooks
- Orwell and Huxley
- Other perspectives on the future of education…
- other predictions…
- Our Future?
- our Luddite tendencies…
- Owl declares war on man…
- Paper Airplanes!
- Pendulum
- people are still trying to figure out eBooks
- personal camcorders…
- Personal Learning Networks
- Peter Bruegel the Elder
- Phase changing metals…
- Picky about Grammar?
- PLN’s for educators
- Poon Lim
- Positive views on the humanities
- Post literacy…
- Post-Chomsky Linguistics…
- practicing the guitar…
- Quantum Consciousness
- questions for Friday
- Rapportive and Wisestamp
- raw material
- Ray Kurzweil’s future…
- Reasoning in school…
- right or left…handed
- Rote
- Rule Britannia!
- SADKO
- Sarcasm…and kids…
- Science books to look over…
- Secondary Orality…
- Self regard…
- Sensory deprivation
- SETI
- Shakespeare is that important…
- Shoebox Theater
- Singularity…
- Sites like TED
- Skype in the classroom
- Slice
- Slicing the apple…
- So you want to hack some electronics…
- some bricks for the school windows…
- some curiosities about lists…
- some education questions
- Some hard to define words…
- some info about the brain…
- Some information on Quantum Computing
- some more beginning guitar thoughts
- some more education blues…
- some more education industry problems…
- some more geographical oddities
- some more interesting remnants at the end of the year…
- Some more iPad security tricks…
- Some more thoughts about the education industry…
- Some real music apps are coming to the iPad…
- Some strange deaths…
- some strange news…
- some strange particle physics ideas…
- some things we will have to look forward to
- Sometimes nothing is better than something…
- SPDY
- Stagnating scores in schools…
- Storify
- student loans…?
- Subconscious thinking…
- Superclusters…
- Tablet or Reader?
- Teachers get angry…
- Teaching or Pseudo-teaching?
- teaching skills versus knowledge
- Teaching thinking…
- Technology and Education (Part n+1)
- technology is actually creeping into school classrooms…
- tempus fugit
- Tenure…
- The ‘new’ America’s Cup
- the 10,000 year clock is winding up!
- The 10000 year clock
- The arguments against ‘21st century learning’
- The Ascent of Money…
- The Ashtray…
- the big and little in physics
- The biggest selling poet in America
- The Cave of Forgotten Dreams…
- The cloud…
- The Codex Seraphinianus and other weird books
- The Dark Web
- The Digital Future
- the digital monkey on my back…
- The Domino Project
- the end of blogging…
- the end of cursive writing in schools
- the end of cursive writing…
- The end of DropBox?
- the end of DVD’s…
- the end of homework…
- the end of scarcity?
- the end of theory…?
- The Fastest Sailboat...
- the future comes faster for some…
- the future of books…
- The future of energy storage…
- The future of media?
- the future of traditional media
- the future of work…
- The great debate…
- The Higher Education Bubble
- the history of Quantum Mechanics
- the impending online world of expertise…
- The Information
- The Internet of Things
- The Internet of Things
- the iPad as a notebook…
- The Khan Academy
- The language of thought…
- The Laser Keyboard
- The last typewriter…
- the latest from Umberto Eco
- The limits to intelligence…
- the longest family line…
- the lost burial ground of old technology…
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- The man on the street…
- The Melian Dialogue
- The Multiverse…
- The new Rosetta stone
- The oldest maps
- the one screen problem…
- the outcasts from Digital Tribes…
- The revenge of the sith…
- The size of the information world…
- The size of the internet
- the Turing test
- The view from Mordor…
- the war on salt…
- the Wisconsin reading tests…
- them…
- Things just get weirder…
- Things Your Kids May Never Know About
- Thinking and arguing
- thinking taxonomies…
- This actually makes some sense…
- those Amazon reviews…
- to know something…
- to live to be…500!
- to really consume information…
- Tolstoy’s run…
- too big for theories?
- too hard for science?
- Tools and technology
- Tools to visualize history
- top ten engineering achievements…
- tunes you don’t listen to…
- TV and Movies…Dinosaurs
- Twitter searching…
- two more questions…
- Two videos worth watching…
- Underdogma
- unreal architecture…
- Uses for data analysis
- Valentine’s Day
- Vertical integration at Amazon
- we don’t understand technology
- we have limits…
- what am I really trying to do here?
- What are the hardest languages to learn?
- What consciousness looks like?
- what I did on my summer vacation
- What is a 21st-Century Classroom?
- What is a digital native…in school?
- What is it to be human?
- What is learning?
- What is our biggest achievement?
- What is the purpose of education?
- What is the real future of education?
- what should 21st century students learn?
- What should we know?
- What should we teach?
- What teachers forget…?
- What the…?
- What’s all of this about SmartBoards?
- what’s good for you…
- When did language begin?
- Where is the mind?
- which are the most important technologies?
- Which languages should you learn?
- Who represents the students?
- Who teaches the teachers?
- Who uses English?
- Why are there so few lefthanders?
- Why Does Beauty Exist?
- Why is creativity so rare?
- Why is glass clear?
- Why should I learn another language?
- Why should I study English?
- Why should I study history?
- Why should I study…Rhetoric?
- Why technology in school?
- Why we tell stories…
- Why write?
- widgets
- World’s smartest mouse…
- Wristwatches
- yeah, things have changed, and are still changing…
- you can never win…
- you need a password manager
- you need to learn code…
- your office…in 5 years?
- Category: Archive
- Category: Thoughts
- 3 ½ tales
- a brave new world…
- a college education
- a dog’s life…
- a little light cleaning…
- A middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part I)
- a middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part II)
- a middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part III)
- A post about ‘nothing’…?
- a potpourri of online nuggets…
- a starship within 100 years...
- a technical library…
- a thought about the future…
- A thought experiment…
- A willing suspension of disbelief
- Adaptation
- Aesthetics
- an amalgam… (OK some spring cleaning…)
- Are changes always good?
- are laptops de rigueur in college?
- are names important?
- Are we a simulation?
- are we alone?
- Atlas might be shrugging…
- bad teachers
- banana boats…
- big ideas
- boredom redux…
- Catch up post…
- continued haranguing…
- curious?
- Dark Flow
- dead languages
- Dexter vs. Sinister
- different ways to provoke thoughts
- Do as I say, not as I do
- do textbooks matter anymore?
- Do we outnumber the dead?
- Don’t Worry!
- e-textbooks…
- echoes…
- emergent properties
- enclaves
- eReaders
- Et tu Facebook
- Facebook…REALLY??
- Fluency…
- four topics…
- Futurism…
- Graham’s number
- great ideas...
- Greece today…
- guitar talks
- have we changed that much?
- hijinks at the end of the school year…
- How and When to teach…
- how I blog
- how to get there from here…
- how we read…
- I have some catching up to do…
- I remember 9th grade…
- in the eye of the beholder…
- Intelligence and Creativity
- Intelligence, Creativity, Motivation…which is important?
- iPads in the classroom
- irredentism
- Is that a question?
- It doesn’t make sense…
- It’s cold outside…
- Keynesian Economics
- kinds of thinking
- le Tour…
- leading horses to water
- learning about technology…
- learning to read…
- Lefties...
- life is a bowl of cherries…
- man makes the clothes…
- man makes the clothes…part II
- Marcel Proust in the suburbs…
- meta-cognition
- Middle School Confidential…
- more cosmology stuff...
- more education problems…
- more miscellanies…
- more problems with education…
- music and the brain
- My final critique of the textbook ‘system in our schools…I promise!
- mysteries in humor
- Napoleon
- North Korea is on Facebook…
- objective journalism…
- on boredom…
- on generalists…
- on memorization…
- online apps for the classroom
- Online U
- Our view of the universe...
- Part 1: test what you teach…
- Part 2: teach for the test…
- Part 3: Standards…
- Part 4: What is important to know?
- peripatetic interests…
- personal space around the world...
- pets…
- phase II
- plagiarism…
- Post modernism (and the Gutenberg Parenthesis)
- post-industrialism
- resources for reading Finnegans Wake
- resources for reading Ulysses...
- Sherlock...
- Simple answers…
- skills (part II)
- skills…
- small places
- some geographical oddities…
- some Greeks bearing gifts…
- some more electric guitar mysteries…
- some more oddities…
- some near misses…
- Some people you might know...
- So…why themes?
- strange blogs…
- Strange books…
- student technology…
- Students and Epistemology
- Summer Vacation
- teaching inside little boxes…
- test from my netbook…
- Textbooks…for students, what are the real alternatives?
- the 95 theses nailed to the door…
- the battle of Talas
- the clock face
- the distance between the ends and the means…
- The elephant in the room…
- the futures marketplace…
- The good, the bad, and the ugly…
- The Greeks: the fifth century BCE
- The Greeks: The Tragedies
- The Greeks: why are they important to us?
- the green land
- the hardest math problems...
- the ice is out!
- the idea of go bags...
- the lunar eclipse
- the nine blind men and the elephant
- the plot thickens in Central America…
- the revolutions of 1848...
- The speed of life…
- themes (part II)
- Themes…
- there are still some newspapers worth reading!
- There is more to read…
- This will be tough for Historians…
- three books...
- to keep the world safe for democracy…
- to tell time…
- too many words?
- travel blogs…
- two Greeks
- two interesting books
- two strange things
- uncoined words
- virtual real estate
- Virtuality
- What does thinking feel like?
- What if?
- what is creativity?
- What is important to know? (Part II)
- What is important to know? (Part III)
- What is important to know? (Part IV)
- what IS important? (part I?)
- What our future holds…
- what the internet of things may bring...
- what to fix on the internet…
- what we (could) read…
- what’s new…?
- who creates the online content?
- who creates the online content? (Part II)
- Why do we study?
- why go to college?
- Why handwriting has value...
- why I quit using paper…
- world maps
- Writing, Printing, Typing, Texting…
- ‘spring holiday’ weekend…
- Category: Tools
- blogrolls…
- Bluetooth guitar rigs...
- Bookmarks
- buzz…
- Clouds…
- electronics at home...
- EverNote redux…
- Evernote...again...
- Firefox continued…
- goodies are arriving in the mail…
- Google Glass is coming...
- Google wants to end passwords
- Google Wave
- how to use Google Earth (part I)
- keeping organized
- learning about technology…
- More on Google Wave
- More soldering iron tips…
- Navigation…
- notes…
- paperlessness…
- Password Managers…
- PowerPoint and Prezi
- Preliminaries for Google Earth…
- Presentations beyond PowerPoint…
- recommendations…
- retooling a guitar rig
- ScanDock…
- Searching…
- Sensors and sensors...
- Shortcuts…
- Smartphones are worth the money...
- some iPad problems and solutions…
- Some of the tools you likely have…
- some soldering iron tips…
- The obligatory iPad post…
- The stage is set…
- Update to a new browser…
- why not learn to code?
- You need another email address!
- ‘Space Navigation’
- Category: Work
- 3Pinteract
- 60 seconds maps
- a few apps for teachers
- a recap of the 3Pinteract Wiimote presentation system
- Atlas gloves…
- big countries and small countries
- cell phones in school…
- email exchanges for teachers and students
- getting things done on the iPad
- I try out some Wikis
- old school presentation tools…
- paper…
- Reading and Writing…
- really going paperless…
- recommendations…
- Smartboards (a start…)
- social engineering…
- teaching thinking…
- teaching to the test…
- the Flat classroom project…
- tools for presentations…
- what do most students really learn?
- Why you should join Classroom 2.0
- Wiimote / Whiteboard information…
- Wikis…
- Category: Projects
- …in which I take a podcast class…
- 3Pinteract
- a recap of the 3Pinteract Wiimote presentation system
- blogging, part I (backstage)
- blogging, part I (posting)
- blogging, part I (widgets)
- blogging, part I (WordPress)
- blogging, part II (Blogger extras…)
- blogging, part II (Blogger)
- blogging, part III (Windows Live Spaces)
- blogging, the taste test!
- Blogs for teachers…
- I try out some Wikis
- iPad music apps…
- iPad, college, online classes, et.al.
- my new guitar rig…
- my personal network…
- my virtual guitar amps…
- reading Joyce...
- really going paperless…
- Smartboards (a start…)
- some podcast accessories…
- Spark File...
- starting the guitar (1)
- teaching and learning…
- What I want on my iPad…
- Wikis…
- Category: Thoughts
- Category: General
- a new intro for 2011…
- are we getting smarter or dumber?
- Bluetooth guitar rigs...
- Books as gifts...
- Boredom is important...
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Colleges still have a few problems...
- Dcovery
- Do we outnumber the dead?
- gadgets for use with your computer (part I)
- Graham’s number
- How technology is changing us…
- how to search...
- improve your online security
- information about the future of the education system: part I
- information about the future of the education system: part II
- is it time for your internet sabbatical?
- it’s time to retool...
- MEGA
- more things we take for granted...
- My history with computers
- Our view of the universe...
- paper...
- Smartphones are worth the money...
- Some information on Quantum Computing
- the hardest math problems...
- The size of the internet
- too many words?
- what innovation?
- What secure search from Google does for you...
- Where is the mind?
- Category: PC
- Beyond DropBox…
- Dead as a doornail?
- Find out who’s tracking you across the Web
- gadgets for use with your computer (part I)
- Hamster ebook converter
- improve your online security
- It may be too late for passwords...
- Safebox
- Category: NetBook
- 2 worthwhile (free) windows programs…
- 360 desktop
- backup strategies…
- Calibre
- cloud access for Word
- Does anyone care about Windows anymore?
- Handwriting Fonts
- Is the NetBook boom over?
- NetBook advantages
- NetBooks in High Schools
- New wrinkles for some tools…
- Other uses for a NetBook
- skins…
- Some free Windows 7 tools
- some tips on saving NetBook battery power
- speed up Firefox
- speed up Firefox (part II)
- tagging
- The beginning of the end…?
- The end of the desktop PC?
- Upgrade windows 7?
- What to put on your NetBook
- Why use the Gmail web app
- Category: personal network
- a personal backup
- Additions for EverNote!
- Backup Gmail…
- Bookmarking tools…
- business with clouds…
- Cloud storage is for everyone now…
- DropBox security…
- EverNote encryption
- Evernote encryption
- Flashdrive PC toolkit
- Getting Things Done® with Toodledo
- Go-to bags…
- GoFlex
- Google Chrome
- Google Reader
- High Tech note taking tools
- how to actually read online content without getting a migraine…
- MEGA
- Microsoft Office still rules…
- more on KeePass…
- personal backup apps
- personal online security
- Physical backups of gear…
- Picasa web album apps
- Pipes
- Printable lists / Lists to keep handy
- ScanDock redux
- security…
- SPLASHTOP
- super mobility for my personal network…solar power!
- things to use DropBox for
- Thunderbolt technology
- TrueCrypt a flashdrive
- Useful apps for college…
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