Learning Aesthetics

So this is going to be a running report, so following the model of the last post or two things will change without RSS updates.  This being my first BC some thoughts: I suddenly understand why there needs to be a limited attendance.  This one is between 70 and 100, not because it was limited [...]

In case anyone was wondering what youth was doing in its spare time:

"The future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed." – William Gibson Shel accused me of techno-snobism when I LOLed at last Sunday’s Dilbert.  Domain specific snobism isn’t news of course; it permeates higher education, but it seems to me that when domain specific knowledge, particularly geek specific domain knowledge, inserts itself into the [...]

This just in the waterproof Ebook.

I’ve been outside the aggregator for the past few days; no particular reason or perhaps I’m look for alternatives.  One way or another I stumbled on Wikiquote which turns out to be very useful and also opens up some questions.  If you scroll down on any of the Wikimedia sites you’ll find a list of [...]

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

…and how do I get out of here?  You may have seen on the network news last night a bit on the Dash Express, billed as ‘The World’s First Internet GPS’.  What’s really odd is that Amazon is claims to be the exclusive source for the device.  Soon as it starts steering you’ll be able [...]

From an iPAQ; truely weird display.

Apperception almost crept into the last post, but somehow I managed to avoid it.  Good things can’t last forever, however, and karmic-convergence seems to have reasserted itself. As William James notices the topic is pretty much unavoidable in educational circles; today we’re likely to call it scaffolding, or some other happy term. (Total digression: the [...]

You may have noticed what I consider a strange style to these posts, a kind of abbreviated thought process, you might say.  It’s not just that I’ve been spending too much time on Twitter; it’s a form follows philosophy thing.  A couple of weeks back I saw a post, I no longer know from who [...]