Reflections
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Graduate School
→: Graduate SchoolI went back to school because I didn’t think I knew enough to go and join the real world, yet. Then I got to graduate school, and realized it wasn’t the place to learn it. I’m not a better programmer than I was before I came. I know a little more about some things, but…
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What’s Your Natural Advantage?
→: What’s Your Natural Advantage?The first year I worked at a summer camp, it was nuts. Three instructors (including me) took a trip to the hospital, a child ran backwards into a pole, a bridge collapsed, an instructor got fired, as did the woman running the cafeteria that was the cause of one of the trips to hospital, and…
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Do We Need To Be Jerks?
→: Do We Need To Be Jerks?From “A Rant About Women” by the awesome Clay Shirky (emphasis mine). And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant…
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The Future
→: The FutureThe other day, I blogged about how technology education had to better prepare students for the future, but I didn’t come up with many ideas for how. Ultimately, it’s hard to prepare for the unknown and I evade predictions about the details. It’s really hard to educate for the future, if you don’t know what…
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A Diet of Live Frogs
→: A Diet of Live FrogsMonday: Going to the DV and exchanging my license – surprisingly painless. Tuesday: Going outside. Wednesday: Laundry, paying bills. Thursday: Dealing with insurance people. Friday: Going to Carleton How Was It? Not as bad as I thought it would be, most things were less awful than anticipated (apart from going to Carleton). Even though I…
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Mini-Generation Gaps
→: Mini-Generation GapsWhen I gave the Holiday Science lecture, one of the things that I touched on briefly was how my childhood was unrecognizable compared to the childhood of children 10 years my junior. This article – The Children of Cyberspace – from the New York Times elaborates on that further. From the article: “Researchers are exploring…
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Eating Live Frogs
→: Eating Live FrogsReflecting on Sunday’s post on Effectiveness and Time Management, and my reluctance to eat live frogs in the morning, it’s occurred to me that: I don’t tend to have a “most important task”, because most of my tasks are fairly open ended. Each day I have something that I want to make some progress on,…