Tag: education
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Scarlet Letters, Waking Up, and Social Engineering
A version of this essay also appears today in the Gray Matters section of The Houston Chronicle, 5 February 2015. You can read it here: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Fake-babies-won-t-stop-kids-from-getting-pregnant-6064367.php?t=e86c7a4a6479b87a02&cmpid=twitter-premium This essay was also published on 23 December 2013 in The Imaginative Conservative. I have a friend, let’s call her Tancy, since that is her name, and she has a […]
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Gamification and the Classroom
I’m just old enough to remember video gaming in its infancy, and just young enough not to be mired in nostalgia for the good old days. I still play the new stuff (and some of it is quite good). There is a special kind of fun discovering a hidden level, beating the final boss, and […]