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  • Originally posted on The MOOC Experience: Social media and digital learning environments are now combined. As part of the MOOC experience, students are requested to join debates and course’s topics on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google +.… Continue reading

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  • The Bandwidth Divide – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions As more colleges rush to offer free online courses, it’s worth asking who might be left out for lack of high-speed Internet access to watch video lectures. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: I am organizing… Continue reading

    The Bandwidth Divide – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Short documentary about Paulo Freire. Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility Directed and Produced by Dr. Shirley Steinberg,… See on www.youtube.com Related articles Jeopardized and Jeopardizing (keithwaynebrown.com) Paulo Freire (sourcewatch.org) Leading… Continue reading

    Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

  • The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

    A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading

    The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

  • Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Our children need sound thinking skills to reverse our mindless path of death and destruction. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: At last, a return to something approaching the way people have always learned well: reading,… Continue reading

    Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom

  • Teaching without Words: A Must See Ted Talk ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “What did you think about when you first read Teaching without Words ? Probably a voice inside you shouted out-loud : No way, this can’t be possible! Well this is what mine did. I too was taken… Continue reading

    Teaching without Words: A Must See Ted Talk ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  • Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Dr Brad Evans (Senior Lecturer in International Studies (Bristol) and Founder/Director of the Histories of Violence Project) and Dr Henry A. Giroux (Professo… See on www.youtube.com Related articles The Bad University Department (zeroanthropology.net) Dissent… Continue reading

    Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

  • No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills… Continue reading

    No Room for Improvements

  • Thinking without Professional Recognition

    I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse… Continue reading

    Thinking without Professional Recognition

  • Publications | Pete A. Y. Gunter

    It has been my great pleasure and honor, over the last 18 years, to sit and dialog with Pete A. Y. Gunter.   I have learned so much about Process Philosophy, Henri Bergson, Texas land values, etc. I am happy… Continue reading

  • How to Save College | The Awl

    I focus a lot on what youth are facing as well as what their parents & grandparents have done & are doing concerning the technofuture which is mostly hear today already. Because I am involved in higher education, I tend… Continue reading

  • Philosophical Improv with Andrew J. Taggart

    In this short YouTube video, my colleague Andrew J. Taggart explores the way in which radiance manifests itself. A Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor,  his forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, discusses the important connection between goodness and beauty. Links to follow up… 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                … Continue reading

  • Freedom & the Loving Struggle

    “Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Source: etsy.com via Joni on Pinterest   Continue reading