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Time to Work and Time to Play
I do a lot of grounded theory research into student behaviour patterns. It’s a bit Indiana Jones in a rather dry way: hear a rumour of a giant cache of data, hack your way through impenetrable o… more →
Nick Falkner
Time to Work and Time to Play
wrote 2 days ago: I do a lot of grounded theory research into student behaviour patterns. It’s a bit Indiana Jon … more →
The Blame Game: Things were done, mistakes were made.
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Note: This is a re-post of something that I put up on a student discussion forum as part of one of m … more →
The Kids are Alright (within statistical error)
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wrote 1 month ago: You may have seen this quote, often (apparently inaccurately) attributed to Socrates: “The chi … more →
Tell us we're dreaming.
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wrote 1 month ago: I recently read an opinion piece in the Australian national newspaper, the conveniently named … more →
Compound Interest, False Laws and Shiny Taps
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wrote 1 month ago: (I return with a very long rant about funding cuts in higher education. Rather political so feel fre … more →
Generation Why: CBC News' digital digest of must-read news for young Canadians
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wrote 1 month ago: If you’re a Canadian under the age of 30, odds are you’re not reading a physical newspap … more →
Generation Why
wrote 1 month ago: There is a ton of talk about my generation– Generation Y or the Millennial Generation. And the … more →
SIGCSE 2013: The Revolution Will Be Televised, Perspectives on MOOC Education
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wrote 2 months ago: Long time between posts, I realise, but I got really, really unwell in Colorado and am still recover … more →
Vintage interviews with youthful Gen X sound awfully familiar
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wrote 2 months ago: The faces of Gen X (CBC Archives) While perusing the CBC archives recently, I came across some nifty … more →
MOODBOARD -
wrote 2 months ago: Moodboards I created taken from primary research. … more →
Generation Why
wrote 2 months ago: CBC has launched an interactive news magazine aimed at and made by people under 30. http://www.cbc.c … more →
Generation Why
wrote 3 months ago: Slouch-backed, sunken-eyed, we lie below our faded posters and wait, in silence, for rain outside. … more →
Fine then, let's start a war.
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wrote 3 months ago: Trigger Warnings: Anxiety, bullying, abuse, fear, and Rarasaur darksiding. Part 1 Where I explain th … more →
Expressiveness and Ambiguity: Learning to Program Can Be Unnecessarily Hard
wrote 3 months ago: One of the most important things to be able to do in any profession is to think as a professional. T … more →
Generation Why?
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wrote 3 months ago: Saturday night I hung out with minors. Ok not exactly minors but people younger than me, so basicall … more →
Bye Bye 2012
wrote 4 months ago: Yes kids, it’s that time again where we wave buh bye to the year and welcome in a new one. Ins … more →
Thanks for the exam - now I can't help you.
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wrote 4 months ago: I have just finished marking a pile of examinations from a course that I co-taught recently. I haven … more →
Thinking about teaching spaces: if you're a lecturer, shouldn't you be lecturing?
wrote 4 months ago: I was reading a comment on a philosophical post the other day and someone wrote this rather snarky l … more →
Adelaide Computing Education Conventicle 2012: "It's all about the people"
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wrote 4 months ago: acec 2012 was designed to be a cross-University event (that’s the whole point of the conventic … more →
