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The Problem with #WINNING
I went to a children’s robotics competition built around LEGO Mindstorms technology. Mindstorms is LEGO’s computer platform for using its bricks to build working robots. The organizer was FIRST (For Inspiration and…
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To Change the World, Shut Out the World
Many of my older students take one look at the commotion on Twitter and don’t know what to think. I tell them to think of a bar at happy hour and the…
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Small Voices Rule the Web
It’s the Fourth of July again. It’s almost a quarter-millennium since the founders built our nation on word and argument. The Internet, our latest test of their experiments, has me thinking about…
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Words Teach Us How to Interact
My boss and some of Quinnipiac’s interactive students did an analysis of the words in our course titles since the start of the program. I hadn’t seen the results, and he asked…
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Let Me Be Perfectly Unclear
I teach for two reasons. First, it keeps firing my imagination and my writing. I see little distinction at this point between producing a film, a book, or a syllabus. They all…
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