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The Girl Geek Scotland website is full of interesting news and ideas. If you are looking for interesting events and workshops in Europe, this is a good site to watch. But, blog aside, this tweet from @girlgeeks led me to an interesting story about flip-thinking.
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The flip-thinking story by Daniel Pink starts out with education:
Karl Fisch is a 20-year veteran of Arapahoe High School, located south of Denver, Colorado. For the past 14 years, the one-time math teacher has been the schools technology coordinator. But a round of budget cuts forced him to take on extra duties and a few weeks ago, he returned to the classroom to teach an algebra course to 9th and 10th graders (14 and 15 year-olds).
However, instead of lecturing about polynomials and exponents during class time and then giving his young charges 30 problems to work on at home Fisch has flipped the sequence. He recorded his lectures on video and uploaded them to YouTube for his 28 students to watch at home. Then, in class, he works with students as they solve problems and experiment with the concepts.
The article goes on to consider flip-thinking in publishing, the movie business, human resources, and business. It's one of the more interesting ideas I've run into this week, thanks to @girlgeeks.
A new blog called CompSci Woman made its debut in September. During the month of September, the blog is featuring stories by women telling how they got into computer science. Each story is unique. Check out Amanda Wilson's How I Got Involved in CompSci!!! and Gail's Behind the Screen among other stories shared there.
I've been reading Jolie O'Dell's posts on Mashable for a long time, so I don't know why I never discovered her personal blog at Jolie O'Dell before. It was another tweet that led me to her blog post on Women in Tech: A Realistic Look at the Numbers. The article has charts, tables, stats and plenty of thought-provoking quotes.
An Argentinian blog called Mujer y Tecnologia or Women and Technology appeared in the BlogHer Network a few days ago. I checked it out. I looked at it in Spanish first. Even the Spanish couldn't prevent me from picking up on a bits about Facebook and anti-virus software and a vibrator connected to an iPod. What? Well, that hooked me. I was irresistibly drawn to Google translate for an English version.
What's that? I can't hear you. My iPod is turned up REALLY LOUD.
Photo Credit: Tom Raftery.
Virginia DeBolt
Web Teacher | First 50 Words
