Learning Aesthetics

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 [...]

Now normally I don’t recommend books that I haven’t read myself, but this is impossible to pass up.  And since I’ve already reserved it at the OCLP I feel safe.  If you’re wondering what this has to do with IT, think China. Amazon.com: American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: [...]