Ubuntu ARM – David Mandala
- Targeted ARM v7 – first release April 2009
- 7 different kernels in 10.10 . Improving with Linaro
- OMAP 3 100% in main Linux kernel so easy to support.
- Someday unified kernel onto ARM
- Toshiba AC-100 netbook
- 11.10 preview release of ARM server
- Lots of work to get SMP and now 64 bit to work. Some code assumed they would never exists
- Virtualisation support soon for server space
- Main sense of ARM in server space is 10x saving in power eg ~50W vs ~5W
- Lots of other stuff this guy was going too fast for me to keep up
Helping your Audience learn – Jacinta Richardson
- Conferences let you vary your level of intensity according to your energy
- Conferences – no assessment
- Training is different, all day, 6-8 hours, several days in row, builds on previous days
- can’t afford to get lost.
- Cognitive load – how much effort somebody has to apply to learn a new thing.
- Intrinsic – how hard actually thing is.
- Extraneous – how harder trainer makes it than it needs to be
- Germaine – how well concepts build on what we already understand
- Building framework takes time. Scaffolding has to be well designed. Lots of simply examples
- Mind map of material -> what you are teaching to build foundation
- Be realistic what you can fit into day (including breaks, people late)
- 6 – 6.5 hours optimistic. Seems to be max most people can handle
- 90 minutes then break ( eg 90min on, 30min off repeat 4 times )
- Documents – short prose sections, short examples, short chapters (work though in 90 minutes)
- Key info at start of the day. Dont do lots of extra stuff like class rules
- Easy stuff, unimportant stuff at the end of the day.
- Essentials at the start of the course
- First 90 minutes or first day is most important
- Options extras at end of course or end of each day
- If you have lots of stuff -> create another course, make more money
- Use diagrams, code, pictures, comics
- reduce germane cognitive load:
- Order carefully
- group similar concepts
- Put import stuff in bold
- 10:10 – 10 minutes instructions, 10 minutes of student exercise. Sometimes 10:20 . Occasionally 10:30
- 1-3 concepts in that 10 minutes. But try to balnce
- Spare time = more examples
- 90 minutes = 3 x 10:20 + 4.5 x 10:10
- Target exercises at each key point. Doesn’t have to be real-world
- 1 point = 1 exercise
- Easy to advanced exercises. Additional exercises to really advanced people
- NO answer files. Cause everybody will cheat
- Minimise cross-chapter reliance
- Sometimes you have to rely on previous stuff (should have been at start on day one). Try and avoid since people will have missed or not picked up previous concepts
- New topic = clean slate
- Good, through course notes
- Not slides, write a book, should be readable later, good advertising
- A few other ideas:
- Keep room cold, keep it fresh. 21-23 degrees
- Bell curse applies to student ability. Students not slow, but have less foundation or experience in topics
- Target average student. Offer extra help for ones behind. Don’t slow down for slowest student.
