You know the golden rule, don’t you boy? Those who have the gold make the rules.

Whats really interesting is how the Mootha Lab did it. Sure, there was plenty of traditional wet lab work involving pipettes, beakers, and chemical reagents – but techniques like these had failed to identify MCU for close to fifty years. The difference was the Mootha labs strategic and creative searching of publicly-accessible biological databases. via [...]

He says we need to move to more student-centric learning, using the strengths of technology to help students learn in their own ways (you remember Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?). For instance, instead of assessing students at the end of a unit, we should test them daily, using technology to capture and record data, thus allowing the [...]

Most professors I know are willing to talk with students about pursuing a PhD, but their advice comes down to three words: don’t do it. At Yale, we were overjoyed if half our graduating students found positions. That’s right—half. Imagine running a medical school on that basis. As Christopher Newfield points out in Unmaking the [...]

How Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach – Boing Boing …The valiant and resolute band of travelers I thought I was leading toward a much-hoped-for destination turned out instead to be more like convicts on a chain-gang, forced under threat of punishment to move along a rough path leading nobody knew where and [...]

Video: How to Speak In this skillful lecture, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions by using them himself. He emphasizes how to start a lecture, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” [...]

TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video) From an educational point of view. I wound up having to download it but it was worth it.

swissmiss: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of [...]

Accessify: latest news / Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text) It got me thinking, maybe it would be best to show the user how to change the font size rather than simply describe it. With that in mind, I put together some video clips, joined them together in iMovie and did [...]

Flash is popular for adding interactive media to websites such as movies and tutorials. Now there’s an easy, built-in way to add captioning for the hearing impaired or sub-titles for other languages. Digital Web Magazine – Captions for Video with Flash CS3 gives and introduction on using this option.