Learning – Page 10 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Tests, Exams, and the correlation between them

2020-08-05

A comparison of three kinds of tests and its correlation with exam scores.
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Recommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

2020-08-01

Beautiful comedy video that sums of the similarity of woke people and hard-core racists.
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Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader

2020-07-25

Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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Take Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”

2020-07-06

An eye-opening moment in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel". Worthwhile to read, especially if you are currently in school.

Picture: Book cover found online.
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Your Past, Present and Future Selves — do you like these guys?

2020-07-03

Wondering whether people can make friends with these selves, or at least collaborate professionally.
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Quickly Downloading YouTube Videos via a JavaScript Bookmark

2020-05-19

Given how quickly YouTube Videos disappear nowadays, it makes sense to download each and every video you find interesting. Here's a quick way to do it.
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A Life Not Written Down

2020-05-01

A short argument for going fishing.
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)

2019-10-04

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»).
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.

2019-07-30

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?
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The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System

2019-07-30

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.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.