I’m using my Microblog to journal about problem-solving. **** Interpersonal problem solved. I had to sort out a serious leg infection. It meant checking into the hospital twice and taking more than 60 strong antibiotics. **** My professional life problem. I am at the tail end of teaching …
I’m attending a week-long seminar critical thinking series in Portugal with people from Finland, Germany, Holland, Iran, Ireland, and Portugal. Today’s in-class assignment has us drilling down into the Gibbs Reflective Cycle. I think I’m going to make a Sway about the findings …
Impressed with some of the facets of Microsoft Copilot. Much of the student work I now get uploaded into SharePoint can be cross-referenced by colleagues who teach alongside me but never enter my classrooms. Now they can dynamically see the evolution of student portfolios as core elements percolate …
I scored no points on another of those “been there dun dat” surveys.
I’m taking a short advanced programme about Creativity and Critical Thinking. In some corners, critical thinking is at odds with creativity. In my life, critical thinking processes help me question, analyze, and evaluating, while creativity helps me produce clever ideas and explore multiple …
Ready for a note-taking session at work.
As Kelli Maria Korducki explains in The Atlantic, computer science is no longer the safe major. From the time I left high school, computer science degrees have been sold as one of the safest paths to job security. Through several downturns, coding jobs kept spawning and wages are very good. By the …
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell
Watching the writers thinking about returning to work. “New transparency in streaming data means Netflix and Disney Plus will have to change how they work,” writes Alex Cranz. www.theverge.com/2023/9/26…
“In France, I am Irish, thanks to my grandmother, born in County Antrim. In Canada, I am Canadian, having been born there. Albeit I left aged ten months. In Britain, where I spent much of my childhood, I am British, as my parents were,” writes Jonathan Miller in …
If you use LinkedIn, your best scrolling experience happens when you trust the LinkedIn algo to surface the content most relevant for you. #protip
As a former flight safety officer and T-38 instructor pilot, I’m trying to read between the lines as F-35 Lockheed Martin strike fighter jets are grounded. One crashed last week in South Carolina near where I used to live. It looks like maintenance officers may want a close look again at fuel …
So we install fibre to the home last week. Tonight the kids started streaming content on two different TV sets. My laptop WiFi connectivity with some of my services is dropping. Time for some ethernet ports so I might reclaim 200 Mbps upload speeds.
Reviewing my listing of power words because many of them work well on me.
Imagining hundreds of cars approaching the poorly marked entrance to our university campus at the start of our academic semester. And knowing that challenge will be faced by dozens of the young students who may feel stressed when they miss the entrance on their first attempt.
I have become snobbish about my preference for Miso Paper.
My daughter Misty approaches teaching as a vocation. She wants “to help my students reach Self-Actualization–or at least some academic content–while at school, so I try to have an environment where students feel safe, loved, and included in my classroom.” So she has an …
While watching the cognitive decline of elders in my life, I see the story reverberating in news stories about American politicians. Behind Dianne Feinstein’s Headlines Lies Another, Untold Story www.nytimes.com/2023/09/0…
National Parents Council of Ireland has a quick survey that suggests where the content regulation battles will be pitched. Survey closes on 30 August. Start here: ykdb-zcmp.campaign-view.eu/ua/
In an earlier life, I had an armed guard riding shotgun as we counted locked containers inside a bunker. www.flickr.com/photos/ir…
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Consistently above 300 megabits per second on our ground floor within 15m of the router.
Whenever I read the Designintech.report I remember John Maeda took down the 2020 Design in Tech Report after an organization cited a copyright violation for artwork within the Report.
Planning to republish my 2023 Information Management Process by incorporating logos from Notion and Mem.
Paul Kedrosky points out that all eight of the Google-based authors of the seminal “transformers” paper that helped spark the current wave of large language models have now left Google to start various AI companies. That is more people than there were senior vice presidents at Google in 2004. …
We have a meter inside the house that shows how much carbon our home electricity usage spews. As expected, there’s a web service for that too. Here’s a look at Ireland, a country using a lot of natural gas to produce electrical power: app.electricitymaps.com/zone/IE