CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Consumer Spending and Inequality Denial – NYTimes.com

    …there’s a much bigger bait and switch here. Remember, the question is what’s happening to the middle class. Nobody questions the fact that America has grown richer over the past several decades. The question is whether that growing wealth has… Continue reading

  • The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the age of information overload – YouTube

    Acclaimed popular psychologist Richard Wiseman joins celebrated RSA Animate illustrator Andrew Park to unveil new evidence that shows that RSA Animate videos not only entertain, but educate in a surprisingly effective way. via The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home: When it comes to sugary foods we always think they are bad for us. Were continually told by doctors and other health care practitioners that we… Continue reading

  • From Marx to Ratzinger. The Turning Point Manifesto

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions It’s not just the Courtyard of the Gentiles. In the borderland between faith and lack of faith, the season of conversions has returned. And of Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “…In the Catholic Church, famous… Continue reading

  • Knowledgable Compassion

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Compassion’s beauty arises in the moment you give a crying child a hug or sit down for a candid conversation with a friend about their recent struggles.  Compassion proves our humanity, showing our… Keith… Continue reading

  • Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study explores what happens to students who aren’t allowed to suffer through setbacks. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Loving struggle and the benefits of fortitude come from the encounter of person to person… Continue reading

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  • Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : NPR

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in school children is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated, it is often used to measure… Continue reading

  • #ETMOOC

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013 Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: And now the etMOOC (educational technology MOOC) to go along with the original cMOOCs and the more broadly hyped… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on All MOOCs, All The Time: My research and scholarship revolves around how learning technology (specifically recent explosions in distance and online learning technologies such as Khan Academy, cMOOCs and xMOOCs) affects the teaching profession.  There is great… Continue reading

  • Awake for Deathless Wisdom

    In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless. Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Ariyapariyesana Sutta Source: peace-n-kindness.tumblr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World (keithwaynebrown.com) Heart And Soul… Continue reading

  • Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. – Slate Magazine

      Working with other Indian and American archaeologists, the two applied new methods for pinpointing the elusive remains of spices that don’t show up in flotation tanks. Instead of analyzing dirt from Indus kitchens, they collected cooking pots from the… Continue reading

  • Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics | csid

    Super interesting. Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on Tracy James Jones: Note:  Initially, this was an exercise in writing. I read on another Blogger’s page that it was good practice to write a little something every day even if for nothing more than to keep… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Teacher Views Today: Great resources! Six Teaching Tools for Black History Month | Edutopia. Continue reading

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading

  • Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

    The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power… Continue reading

    Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World