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Originality in arts vs. sciences: I disagree with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Tryggvi Thayer

Edit: Title changed – See comments below. Maria Popova at Brainpickings posted a video recently of Neil deGrasse Tyson commenting on how creativity and originality work differently in the sciences and arts. I think Tyson is wrong. There are a … Continue reading →

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Middle school teacher turns classroom into a RPG

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin

Richard Incorvia is a teacher at the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment’s middle school who likes video games. He decided to turn his class into a role-playing-game. I’ll leave it up to him to explain as he does … Continue reading →

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What makes a “future-oriented” policy? Towards a framework for identifying and analysing policies.

Posted on November 2, 2011 by admin

I have often emphasized the need for future-oriented policies in education as a response to rapidly increasing change to the extent that if I were to be asked, “Tryggvi, what are you all about?”, that would be the gist of … Continue reading →

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The important little things…

Posted on June 8, 2011 by admin

This is EASSy, the submarine cable that at long last gave East Africa a modern connection to the Internet in July, 2010. It has a capacity of 3.84 terabits per second. It is the highest capacity system in Sub-Saharan Africa. … Continue reading →

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Sorry about unpublished comments

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

I just realized that a number of readers had commented on posts over the past few months and that their comments weren’t published. My system tagged them as spam and I didn’t see them. I get an incredible amount of … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous computing in education – really?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

The January, 2010 edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment is dedicated to research on U.S. 1:1 (or one-to-one) laptop programs, i.e. school programs that supply a laptop to each and every student and teacher in the school. … Continue reading →

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