Hello from the ‘expert status’ blog!
When an expert talks, we can feel disenfranchised from the conversation. Welcome to my WordPress.com blog. It is my project to share what I have learned about how we decide whom to regard as an expert … when we cannot quite fathom everything that they are saying. I will try to keep things in bite-sized chunks. … Continue reading
Google listened to me … maybe
Had to share this one with somebody … Google’s advanced search was enabled in January to let kids select only simply written websites. That is an idea that I had promoted 5-8 years ago. Seven or eight years ago, a school teacher complained to me how difficult it was for students to find science material … Continue reading
What if they get something wrong?
University students publishing online for classmates Did you ever have a classmate at university who got their facts wrong, leading you to miss a key question on an exam? University students have always shared study materials. Notes from a missed lecture. Laboratory data from an experiment that actually worked properly. An explanation of a difficult … Continue reading
A Modest Proposal — New Calendar
New Year’s Day should be a date without a day of the week assigned to it. Imagine being able to re-use your favourite calendar, Railroad Cars of the South Pacific. What makes this modest proposal even more appealing is that it is an easy shift to make. As it is, a given day this year … Continue reading
What are they really saying? 