How classroom technology is holding students back
“Educators love digital devices, but there’s little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.”
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“Educators love digital devices, but there’s little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.”
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““Coding Standards are often thought of as style guides, however coding standards should be more than merely a style guide. Beyond just style, I believe standards should encompass everything that is used to improve code quality and reliability. This includes how code is reviewed and what automated checks should be in place (before even discussing your testing strategy).”
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“I like to use Makefiles. I like to use Makefiles in Java. I like to use Makefiles in Erlang. I like to use Makefiles in Elixir. And most recently, I like to use Makefiles in Ruby. I think you, too, would like to use Makefiles in your environment, and the engineering community would benefit if more of us used Makefiles, in general.”
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“As the Go community celebrated its 10th birthday I was thinking about what makes Go unique. I think a lot of the real power of Go has come from the philosophy of its designers: There’s a strong emphasis on forward compatibility, the language doesn’t have flashy features that hurt readability, and it comes out-of-the-box with everything you truly need (a basic test library, solid networking and synchronization primitives, and templating, to name a few).”
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“I recently read the book Impro - Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone. I loved the book and as Venkatesh said ‘it is a textbook that teaches you how to see the world differently.’ so consider it recommended. . It’s a delightful book all about improvisational theatre and importantly how to teach improvisational theatre. The book inspired me to draw many analogies between the improv actor and the consultant”
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