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
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
What are they really saying? 