Destin from Smarter Every Day (extended interview) Derek from Veritasium (extended interview) Challenges and achievements in teaching open source course at the university. In a recent post, I introduced an initiative, along with Dima Kassab, for teaching open source NoSQL databases.
We collaborated to prepare course materials for three NoSQL databases to 22 students at the Informatics Department of SUNY Albany, and we made all those material available under a Creative Commons by Attribution License. We covered MongoDB in the first session and Neo4j in the second. The third session took place on November 13, 2012 and focused on the M database—whose importance in healthcare and financial applications I've discussed. The sequential introduction of these databases benefited from following the same data example—how to manage a database of Movies—as it was modeled to fit in the framework of each one of these powerful databases. It was quite useful to be able to contrast the databases among themselves and with the Relational approach to data modeling. MongoDB : a document databaseNeo4j: a graph databaseM: a hierarchical database The command line The server. 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance.
The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.Bruce E.
LevineAlterNet Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” How exactly has American society subdued young Americans?
1. Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school. All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman.
Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP. La pensée critique dans l’enclos universitaire, par Pierre Rimbert. We cannot afford to get science education wrong. Science gives young people the tools to understand the world around us and the ability to engage with contemporary and future issues, such as medical advances and climate change.
That is why science should be taught to students up until the age of 16. However, Ofsted’s recent report on the state of school science reports worrying trends in the way science is being taught. A particular worry is the status of practical science in our schools. Studying science without experiments is like studying literature without books. Experiments are an inherent part of science and are vital for further study and employment. Ofsted reports the ways in which the best schools use practical investigation to teach and inspire students. It is worrying then that Ofqual, the independent regulator of examinations and qualifications, has proposed that in the future, practical assessment will not form a part of students’ A Level science grades.
Declining standards Universities and employers are concerned. Physics Education - (Ed extended footage) Physics Education - (Phil extended footage) Physics Education - (Tony extended footage)