Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

Human Performance: If you don't find it often, you often don't find it In some sequences of images, an item would be present half the time, and the volunteers missed only 7 percent of them. But when the item appeared only 10 times in every 1,000 images, their error rate rocketed to 30 percent. The Education Podcast Network The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Screencasting Del.icio.us Tags? Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Folksonomies? Self-organizing ontologies? Huh? The Power of Design The evidence of design's power is everywhere. It's apparent in the mere fact that the bar has been raised. Customers expect, even demand, more from the design of everything they buy.