When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Some of those things I filed away, mentally, for future reference, and some of these surface now and then. A recent of that I remembers […]
Code Reading Club
There is a lot to be said about learning to program, what languages to use, what didactics to use, to learn it in a university or in a boot camp, but one thing I think is similar in all those situations: a strong focus on creating code, very often ‘green-field’ code, starting from a specification […]
Experimental Methods in Neuroscience and Cognition – Igor Crk and Andrew Begel
This talk is about what we can learn from neuroscience and cognition. We humans have a part of the brain called the cerebral cortex for memory and speech processing and other things cats do not have 🙂 EEG By looking at what parts of the brain light up, we can learn what type of things […]
Do High and Low Performing Student Teams Use Scrum Differently in Capstone Projects? — Maria Paasivaara
And another talk about capstone projects, really cool! This paper compares high and low performing team and see how they use scrum. The project setup is very similar to the previous talk. The highest and lowest performing 4 teams were compared. High performance teams use the backlog more and communicatie with the product owner more, […]
Coding, Reading, and Writing: Integrated Instruction in Written Language — Steven L. Tanimoto
Steven created a programming system called Kokopelli’s World, a programming system to teach children with a learning disability about coding and writing, at the same time! This system, based on Google Blokly, is aimed at children that have oral language ability and some reading ability, and had children play with Kokopelli’s world for 90 minutes […]
