WEAVE, the Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, allows users to present large data sets in some really interesting ways. The open source tool from the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research and the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Open Indicators Consortium, allows users to create dashboards of information for exploration and discovery. Particularly good … Read more Weaving a Visualization
In the quest to improve thought and developing meaningful skills for young learners, I am glad their are people like Bret Victor. He has been thinking deep thoughts about how to create more active readers: readers that are engaged with the material, that question hypotheses and model alternatives. And he’s developed some interesting prototypes … Read more Active Readers
In the excitement over the recent Apple textbook announcement, one question seemed to get buried: Do iPads actually further academic goals? Turns out, they probably do. Wired magazine has written about a study by Houghton-Mifflin and Apple (admittedly, these two partners are not agenda-less) regarding success with iPads in the K-12 classroom. But there … Read more Snackable Chunks
This fascinating video from the BBC shows how people can see the same thing completely differently. Researchers look at how babies acquire language, and how language acquisition impacts what they see. And then they look at the Himba tribe, which has only five words for color, and can distinguish different hues than typical Westerners. Zhicheng … Read more Seeing Things Differently