False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German) 2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 3 minutes It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.[show the article]
Grading Paper Exams with an iPad 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute Turns out you can grade paper exams pretty well with an iPad.[show the article]
Watching a Master paint 2019-03-04 | Reading time: Less than a minute Ah, Internet. It allows you access to the world of creeps without having to smell them (to quote someone I have just forgotten), but it also allows you to watch masters at work. Here's a video of a great artist just ... warming up.[show the article]
Gab.ai releases Dissenter — A tool to free comments on the Internet 2019-02-28 | Reading time: 2 minutes Gab.ai introduced Dissenter, a tool (website/browser plugin) to comment on websites (incl. tweets, news stories, etc.). Practically anything with an URL. So, all that closed comments on news sites ... they're open again.[show the article]
Mixed Media 2019-01-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute You can easily combine a projector and a blackboard.[show the article]
There (likely) is no single best reading position 2019-01-05 | Reading time: 1 minute Reading positions are dear to my heart — but I still haven't found one in which I can read for more than a couple of hours. But perhaps variability is the key.[show the article]
Comfortable Reading Position 2018-12-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute Still looking for a really comfortable reading position ... closing in, I guess.[show the article]
