...really good teaching is about not seeing the world the way that everyone else does...

"Good teachers perceive the world in alternative terms, and they push their students to test out these new, potentially enriching perspectives. Sometimes they do so in ways that are, to say the least, peculiar."
Mark Edmundson, "Geek Lessons" NYT, 2008

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science

Computer power not only aids research, it defines the nature of that research: what can be studied, what new questions can be asked, and answered.

More.

No comments: