Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Frack Me
Originally posted on The Dish: Not everyone is saying “not in my backyard”: On Tuesday, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, gave the fracking industry carte blanche to continue pumping chemicals into the ground beneath them and pumping natural gas out. A city… Continue reading
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‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We Thought
The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world’s contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group… Continue reading
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Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind
Just a tad bit too fracking cool really. Cannot believe I did not hear about this two years ago. Continue reading
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Vernor Vinge on Technological Unemployment
What does the future hold, not only for the great hoard of folk who may not keep ahead of the ever-widening techno-chasm, but also the banks of thinkers/creators who have until now been busy at encoding the Book of Life?… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 8
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood… –Robert Frost So many, so varied are all the possibilities of how anything gets from this place to that… Continue reading
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Learning Theory – What are the established learning theories?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave &… Continue reading
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It’s the actor in the interaction not the internet in the actor
Nice experiment by a gent who left the internet behind for twelve months after being connected in some fashion for thirteen years. I am reminded of how often in a town like Denton or even New York, someone will begin… Continue reading
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Shooting Sparrows
Originally posted on A is for: Shooting Sparrows You’re spittin’ in the wind, kid, Living like that, life ain’t never gonna change, it’s a summary of what we did and the strength that we’ve maintained. There’s a limited supply of… Continue reading
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” Pedagogy Vs Andragogy ” Chart
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: At what point does a youth transition from adolescent to adult? See on www.educatorstechnology.com Continue reading
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News Roundup — Continuing Ed MOOCs for Teachers, XPU College Readiness MOOC – moocnewsandreviews.com
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The biggest development this week is the announcement of new classes on Coursera that particularly focus on continuing ed MOOCs for teachers. See on moocnewsandreviews.com Continue reading
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Subversive education
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Noam Chomsky on Wednesday joined Bruno della Chiesa, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in an Askwith Forum covering the legacy of the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997)… According to… Continue reading
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Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden
Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden These ascendent generations may have a Facebook account for the web and to use Messenger, but they seem to be disinterested in a network where everyone hangs out, where… Continue reading
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Saturday not Studying
Last assignment due in a class that I have enjoyed. Yet I am that bad student who does not want to put much work in the assignment. I would prefer talking with the teacher one on one about things rather… Continue reading
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Demostrophe
I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this… Continue reading
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What is the Easiest Practice?
Originally posted on How To Practice Zen: What could be easier than just letting go? If we had nothing to hold on to, nothing to reach for, nothing to drop, what would that be like? What about dropping opinions about politics? Sports?… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 7
Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading
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Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden: Court upholds New York town’s fracking ban.
New piece at Slate by my friend & colleague Adam Briggle. For a while, it looked like we were scraping the bottom of Earth’s barrel of fossil fuels. Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, and now some… Continue reading
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