Learning Aesthetics

“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of I Ching into the Glass Bead Game.  Elder Brother laughed.  ‘Go ahead and try,’ he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out. Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.  But I [...]

…guess that I just don’t know.”  Don’t want to come off like a motivational speaker, but: The Two Essential Secrets of Excellence: You Have Time & You Have the Power of the Creative. Leaving aside the fact that “Excellence” is a MORE or less meaningless term at best signifying: “some state better than right now” [...]

A Chart from the Gartner Group that strikes me as pretty interesting: And the tip ‘o the hat to the Oldaily: Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010 the Sloan Consortium report on the state of online learning in the United States. Learning Technology – Pervasive Learning and Usage of Sensors in Technology [...]

Fairly often a number of things come together in something like a harmonic convergence, though they rarely seem all that harmonic, things that may not seem completely connected,but that nevertheless define a particular moment, and more often than not mark a kind of turning point. I haven’t posted anything for some time, which is I [...]

or at least makes it clear in its own way that we’re not as smart as we need to be Here’s a link to the NYT article that comments on the above image, we won’t say explains it. What occurs to me in that what it really demonstrates is that things are way complicated. Arguably [...]

The I Ching makes a not so subtle distinction between the “easy” and the “simple”. By way of example: lets say that there’s a mountain and for whatever reason we need to get to the top. The “easy” solution is to rent a helicopter, or if you’d prefer we could design and build a funicular [...]

photo credit: Nesster Up to this point I’ve been assuming that I didn’t have a student readership, but now that I’m teaching a class… Oh well, my real point is that we can’t turn off the electricity, so I may as well post this.  This Tweet just in form Michael Wesch: “Chacha … new ways [...]

Normally I post links to things I like, occasionally to things I hate, but every now and then I stumble on to something that seems important or maybe useful but I’m not sure whether my reaction is positive or negative. A case in point: Deena Larsen has put together a site for high school and [...]

Stephen Downes made a curious keynote presentation at the e-Portfolios conference in Montreal. It was arguably more about identity than ePortfolio but then again maybe the point is that there’s less and less difference between the two.  At any rate there’s some great stuff before it unravels. Ze Frank likes to play ‘that makes me [...]

….marketing, we don’t normally think of education as marketing, maybe we should: This from Paul Isakson. | View | Upload your own