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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 talking about how he or she needs to get the…
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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 life so Pick your battles carefully, learn when to fight…
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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
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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
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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 Chomsky, known for his outspoken politics, Freire viewed learning as…
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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 their parents or schoolteachers may be lurking. (To be fair…
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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 than writing a paper. But that is not the way…
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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 term to take the place of market adjustment. More later.…
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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? Religion? A Zen master once famously shouted as he saw…
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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 addict…” or who buries his being in the pharmacon of…
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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 argue that we might never run out of the stuff,…
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Keeping the Humanities Vibrant
My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of the 60’s counterculture, Allen Ginsberg anatomizes the minds of his…
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Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?
You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that in its current form, the ‘theory’needed to be relegated to that of a “phenomenon” (Bell,…
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A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions There is only one core issue for all of psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin? For most of its history, psychology took for granted an intentional subject: the biographical “me” that…
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores the relationship between knowledge (in the form of scientific risk…
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Welcoming a Friend to WordPress
My good colleague and friend J. Britt Holbrook has started up his new blog. I hope everyone will take a peek and give him some follows as well as some thoughtful feedback/commentary. While I have made my blog more of an inspirational rest stop for my brothers & sisters of…
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Rolling Stone on how the Illuminati is maybe not so impossible
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this…
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The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is raising interesting questions about the relation between science and ethics—in…
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