Category Archives: Education

Computational Thinking

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 4, 2009
Been listening and reading to Jon Udell talk about Computational Thinking. Still need to wrap my head around the whole concept, but wanted to introduce the topic and hope that others would also find this topic interesting. In a talk earlier this year, Jon defined Computational Thinking as follows A set of principles, patterns and patterns [...]
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Young scientists and video

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 8, 2008
Was futzing around YouTube and ran into a few videos (science/biotech related) that seem to be produced by students. Love it!!!
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Educational rantings

By Deepak Singh | Published: November 2, 2008
Image by mndoci via FlickrI should start with a disclaimer. My studies in the US have been limited to graduate school, so a lot is hearsay and gut feeling. Fred Wilson writes about hacking education. First, he echoes something I believe in strongly education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our [...]
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Fundamentals

By Deepak Singh | Published: October 11, 2008
Image by mndoci via FlickrWanted to touch upon a couple of topics that sort of play together in my head. I have always considered education a fundamental right, and considered a quality, well-rounded education, both formal and informal, among the most important things we can provide children. Alas, that seems to be under [...]
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Your personal health: Free means education

By Deepak Singh | Published: October 7, 2008
One more post today. Russ Altman talks about how the cost of genotyping is asymptoting to free (eerie parallels to Chris Anderson’s Free). The post comes on the heels of the launch of Complete Genomics and that they will enable a $5000 genome in 2010. But that’s not the part that I [...]
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