Posts Tagged ‘ Internet ’

9 Compelling Science, Technology & Education Blogs

November 16, 2011

There is a profusion of blogs on the Internet, but some of them stand out because they are not only compelling, but they convey accomplished, artful, intelligent, and powerful content. I’ve selected nine blogs that I read regularly to expand my own thinking about science teaching, technology and education. They represent the range of topics that interest me, and that I find are important.… Read more

Science As Inquiry Website

By Jack Hassard

June 23, 2011

This week, the 2nd Edition of Science As Inquiry will be published by Good Year Books.

Science as Inquiry is based on the idea that learning is deepened if viewed as a communal experience, and that students are involved in making decisions about not only how they learn, but what they learn. Center stage in Science As Inquiry is cooperative (collaborative) learning, and how cooperative learning can be used to heighten and motivate students in learning science.… Read more

Science as Inquiry Update

By Jack Hassard

May 30, 2011

The revision to Science As Inquiry has been completed and it should be published and available at the end of June 2011. To get a feel for what is in the book, you are invited to visit the Science as Inquiry Website. Here is a screen shot of part of the first page of the site which shows the various topics that are presented in the book and in the site.… Read more

From Sputnik to Sagan: Some Views on Science

By Jack Hassard

July 13, 2009

I decided to obtain a copy of Unscientific America by Mooney and Kirshenbaum via my Kindle App on my iPhone, and started reading immediately. A few days later, the book arrived. In an early part of the book, “the rise and cultural decline of American science,” the authors have a chapter entitled: From Sputnik to Sagan. It is an interesting chapter in that it provides a context to help us understand where we are today when we look at science and society.… Read more

An i-Phone Experience As a “Tethered” Non-Generative World Event

By Jack Hassard

July 12, 2008

In Jonathan Zittrain’s book, The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It, he identifies two patterns that describe the way the Internet can be used: generative or tethered. The generative pattern exploits the open, flexible nature of the Internet and PC’s enabling tinkerers and innovators to create new ways to interact and work on the Internet. The other pattern he calls “tethered.” The idea here is that companies are moving away from an open, flexible system, and more toward more centrally controlled, or tethered information appliances, such as the i-Phone.… Read more

Generative System of the Internet, Innovation & Thinking

By Jack Hassard

July 3, 2008

In his book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain compares and contrasts the generative and non-generative use of the Internet, and how decisions that are made now will influence the future of the net. My own experience with the Internet began in 1979 with Compuserve, BRS After Dark, and BitNet. With Compuserve and BRS (Bibliographical Retrieval Services) I could access data bases to obtain information that these two services made available to subscribers.… Read more

How the Web was Won, and the New iPhone

By Jack Hassard

June 11, 2008

This year is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Internet, and during this year, Apple announced the “new” i-Phone 3G, and its new software for i-Phones and i-Pods, i-Phone 2.0. An article in Vanity Fair magazine, How the Web Was Won, outlines the invention and development of the Internet through an oral history of the key developers. As the article suggests, the development began in 1958 with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).… Read more