February 2012
15 posts
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I am a good teacher →
I am a good teacher. i listen to my students. if more people listened to the students, my job would be easier; but my job is hard because if i want to be the best teacher for my students, it means i have to fight for what i know to be good teaching. i have to fight to teach lessons that dont come in a can with simple directions. i have to fight for the things that matter to my kids, for things...
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January 2012
36 posts
Stanford professor gives up tenure to start... →
Inspired by the number of people that the Khan Academy’s free video lectures reached, Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun put his own artificial intelligence class online and enrolled 160,000 students. After scrambling to accommodate so many pupils, he came away from the experience with a new vision of education so different that he says he “can’t teach at Stanford again.”...
“Only YOU can stop…licking your balls”
– Kienan channels smokey bear to inspire new pup to stop licking his infected scrotum (via cderby)
