Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-8-2010

[andrewducker]

• James Cameron's Pocahontas
  A comparison
  (tags: avatar movies funny pocahontas JamesCameron)
• Switzerland millionaire hit by record speed fine - £180,000
  (tags: law switzerland driving)
• 100 Games Cupcakes. How many can you recognise?
  Galaga FTW!
  (tags: games food art gaming cooking)
• Who knew walruses were so flexible.
  I wonder how long they can hold their breath for.
  (tags: walrus water masturbation)
• Why Chicks Cry - romance comics inform you of The Truth!
  (tags: comics women funny crying)
• An airplane safety issue - the threat of ATP!
  (tags: security_theatre airplanes security)
• Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students
  For a given lesson, one instructional technique turns out to be optimal for all groups of students, even though students with certain learning styles may not love that technique.
  (tags: education learning teaching psychology research academia learningstyles)
• Studying how to teach maths to kids
  (tags: brain education learning mathematics)
• Can STAR TREK: TNG be upscaled to HD?
  Now that's the kind of knowledgable answer I like to bump into.
  (tags: StarTrek HDTV bluray)

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

On the teaching/learning styles thing: this is (very close to) my research area, and 'teaching and learning styles' have been widely regarded as not particularly useful as an approach for decades in the UK educational research community. Not so in the US, though, particularly where technology is concerned.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I find the cupcake link frankly disturbing: someone find that person something productive to do.

[andrewducker]

They made something that amused me - that's the _definition_ of productive!