Apple’s iPad is perfectly suitable as your only computer.
I know the sales pitch for the Apple iPad to be a third device, but I think that’s just shortsighted. What would your average family really need to do that the iPad cannot do? Play intricate games? Well, don’t discount the iPad’s hardware, but evenso the usual [...]
Some professor from Kansas University has prepared a lecture-like construct that frankly blew my socks off. 4:31 minute of didactic genius.
If (when!) we pick up ed-me again, this is going to be my idolized example: THATS how lectures should be.
It’s just 4:31 minutes of your time, I promise you’ll be hooked, and it explains what [...]
Two excellent pieces of news for you, my dear friends, readers, and random stumblers!
Today I have received word that I am, indeed, getting my engineering degree – &it’s been confirmed.
Another interesting piece of news:
You may remember my clash with the justice system regarding running a red light that I’m certain I never did.
The result of [...]
Congratulations to Robbert Jan, Judith and Thijs for picking up their degrees yesterday.
The ceremony was… interesting. By which I mean boring.
They did fortunately realize that trying to speechify for all 45 applicants is a bit over the top so they split it up into 2 batches, each with their own room. Of course, such splitting [...]
Perhaps the title of this observation is ever so slightly exaggerated, but I’ve been thinking along those lines for quite a while.
Here are 3 anecdotes that support the notion that universities are no longer useful – or at least very very strange and bureaucratically inefficient places:
Last week I took the exam for Cryptography, a course [...]
While we’ve left the concepts of education made easy behind, apparently the educational world is (slowly) picking up on the economy of scale effect inherent in digital media.
Of course, The UK and The US are leading the way in innovation, again.