I’m reading Smarter Faster Better which shows The Engineering Design Process:
The Engineering Design Process
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He Huang
I found this hilarious comedian: He Huang.
The Tao of Programming
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Bloom’s taxonomy
Today I learned about Bloom’s taxonomy as presented in How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation:
- Remember
- Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long‐term memory.
- Understand
- Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
- Apply
- Carrying out or using a procedure for executing or implementing.
- Analyze
- Breaking material into constituent parts and determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
- Evaluate
- Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
- Create
- Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.
The SQ3R method
In How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation I learned about the SQ3R method, wherein “American educator Francis P. Robinson developed a method meant to help students really get the most comprehension from the texts they’re assigned—and, ergo, the subject they’re studying. Robinson sought a way to make reading more active, helping readers by creating dynamic engagement with books so the information stuck in their minds.”:
- survey
- question
- read
- recite
- review
Feynman technique
I’m reading How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation and I learned about the Feynman technique:
- Step One: Choose your concept.
- Step Two: Write down an explanation of the concept in plain English.
- Step Three: Find your blind spots.
- Step Four: Use an analogy.
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
So I’m reading Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. For my later reference, the hats are:
- WHITE HAT
- neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures
- RED HAT
- the emotional view
- YELLOW HAT
- sunny and positive
- BLACK HAT
- careful and cautious
- GREEN HAT
- associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas
- BLUE HAT
- cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat
The Scorpion and the Frog
I think the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog is worth knowing.
Why can’t two series-connected diodes act as a BJT?
So it turns out you can’t make a transistor from two diodes. :P
Hans Camenzind on the Invention of the Microchip
In this video Hans Camenzind (the electronics engineer who invented the 555 timer) discusses the invention of the microchip. Conclusion? Life is not fair!