Articles Tagged with learning

Microclimates

Weather and learning

If you look closely, there is enormous diversity.  This can be a problem.

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Tinkering

Radio sets and Perl

Playing around can be unexpectedly useful.

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The Aspirational Bookcase

Good intentions

It can take time to get around to things.

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Long reads

An unfair advantage

How many people read a thousand-page book?

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Misnaming things

The astronomer’s dictionary

Misleading terms make learning Astronomy harder.

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Teaching to the test (II)

Good questions?

The hardest part of teaching may be finding good questions to ask.

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Burnout

Long-serving workers

How long is too long to do a single task?

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time and tide

Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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Breadcrumbs

Not even suggestions

Our tutor’s activities sometimes depart from the syllabus.

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Aldehydes and ketones

The road not taken

Our tutor considers past alternatives.

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