Some feedback on posting and comments along with a short rant about “learning styles” and another about “best practice.”
This morning I talk about the thing I think Cuban missed — the systemic dis-incentives for adoption — and talk a bit about how the view of what Cuban calls “collateral learning” has changed in thirty years.
Happy birthday, Dennis. Go write something 
Looking back at television and ahead at some explanations of teacher behavior.
This morning I talk a bit about Cuban and quite a lot about NSD studies and why they’re useless.
The parallels between classroom adoption of radio and movies is being played out today in our schools–just with other technologies.
I talked mostly about Cuban and what we (you) will be doing over the coming week.
A short ramble this morning about the value inherent in the technology called Education.
Today I talk a little about the questions I asked yesterday and a little about the material you need to read for today.
The audio quslity this morning is really bad. I forgot to turn on my earbud so the only pick up was in the handset itself. I did some post-production amplification, and I think you can hear most of it – particularly in the beginning where I answer some of your questions.
Sorry about that.
Recognizing the influence of Bauhaus provides an insight into the zeitgeist of the Twentieth Century. Hughes talks about the importance of creating designs that can be mass produced — the ideal that “good design” is represented by “ease of manufacture” — which in turn created an esthetic that explains how streamlined locomotives, chrome tea infusers, and the art of Kandinsky all fall into the same theme.
