Learning Aesthetics

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

Abilene Christian University is planning on giving 900 or so students who will start at the university this fall the choice of an iPhone or an iPod Touch (which can connect to the Internet via wireless networks but does not function as a cellphone).  They’ve put out the following fictionalized video to ‘explain’ where they’re [...]

Robin Good is someone worth bookmarking.  Lot’s of reviews of corroborative tools and other cool things. Here’s one more take on the changes in education; it ties in to the thread of learning as a social phenomena/activity. Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent – Robin Good’s Latest News

Picking up on yesterday’s theme, and on a post from a while back; dean David Rubin postulated that ‘texting’ was, I don’t want to put words in his mouth but something like, “…replacinging traditional communication forms and thus discouraging face to face social interaction in class.”  Something bothered me about that, but I couldn’t put [...]

The Guardian has an interesting article on social networking in higher education under the title Students tell universities: Get out of MySpace! which comes to the apparently shocking conclusion that students don’t want academics integrated into their social lives.  I’m not sure why this determination should be surprising.  The way it’s structured the only difference [...]