Archive for September, 2008
08-09-25
Tags:Education I am all for individualized instruction. After all, it’s Confucius’ teaching.
The follow paragraphs set up a strong expectation for more individual time between teachers and students. However, right after this, the authors turned to praise Lexia for adaptive testing. I am ok with adaptive testing. But I just hope students indeed received personalized instruction, […]
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08-09-22
Tags:computer google For those who know me, I look like a person who’d get my hands dirty the first day Google Chrome came out. Which I did.
So far Chrome is my favorite browser — fast and small — other than times when I needed Firefox plug-ins for CiteULike, Zotero, DukeLibraryX, and Amazon.
Reliability? Let me […]
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08-09-20
Tags:Computing See this? Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Where is it?
Kiev, Ukraine
Managua, Nicaragua
Havana, Cuba
Hawaii, USA
That’s essentially the game of Flitta, an online experiment deviced by Chris and popularized around the world by Sujai. Chris — we should do this with eye-tracking.
(and there is an obvious hack to cheat …)
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08-09-18
Tags:Computing Research Watch List I have a long interest in setting up something like CiteSeer for Psychology. In fact I contacted Steve Lawrence way back when, and still have their alpha version server scripts they graciously shared with me (but I was never able to make it work). […]
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08-09-17
Tags:Linguistics Research I will be meeting with an independent study student tomorrow morning to go over some paper related to our spelling project. One of the papers is
The sbelling of sdops: Preliterate children’s spelling of stops after /s/ Authors: Hannam, Rachel; Fraser, Helen; Byrne, Brian1
Source: Reading and Writing, Volume 20, Number 4, June 2007 , pp. 399-412(14)
Abstract: […]
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08-09-17
Tags:Paperville psychology theory of mind How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition" by Peter Carruthers
ABSTRACT: Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated. While three of them endorse the existence of introspection for propositional attitudes, the fourth (defended here) claims that our knowledge […]
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08-09-11
Tags:Education Paperville Teaching Andrew Ho argues that the use of percentage of proficient students (PPS) is problematic both statistically and as a policy tool. There […]
Educational Research has an interesting paper on its latest issue:
Ho, A. D. (2008). The Problem With “Proficiency”: Limitations of Statistics and Policy Under No Child Left Behind. Educational Researcher, 37, 351-360.
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08-09-09
Tags:Paperville psychology Teaching TITLE: The propositional nature of human associative learning
AUTHORS: Chris J. Mitchell, Jan De Houwer, and Peter F. Lovibond
ABSTRACT: The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional knowledge. Yet many learning theorists maintain a belief […]
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08-09-06
Tags:Cantonese Characters Chinese Linguistics Cantonese and other Southan Chinese dialects use characters that are not part of the official Chinese character set. In many cases they are invented quite recently, and the ways in which they are created are interesting.
An example is 冇, which means the opposite of 有 (to have, to possess). I […]
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08-09-05
Tags:Computing exhibit mit Research Watch List A way to put citations online in a multi-facet interface. Now sure what problem this solves, but nonetheless cool. Welcome to Citeline, a service to facilitate the web publishing of bibliographies and citation collections as interactiveexhibits and facilitate the sharing of this type of data.Here are some of our […]
Citeline
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08-09-04
Tags:apple Computing eye movement Watch List A patent filing described by AppleInsider | Apple looks to take multi-touch beyond the touch-screen shows that Apple plans to use the iSight webcam to track the "gaze vector". What’s interesting is that they will fuse it with other input such as hand gestures.
Gaze Vector Fusion
Similarly, iSight cameras could […]
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