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  • Nearly Squashed

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  • The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine

    One of the biggest barriers to the mainstreaming of online education is the common assumption that students don’t learn as well with computer-based instruction as they do with in-person instruction. There’s nothing like the personal touch of being in a classroom with an actual professor, says the conventional wisdom, and…

  • Whitehead’s Organicism & Contemporary Cosmology

    Thought provoking piece from Footnotes 2 Plato. Very much worth your time and engagement good brothers & sisters of the Ethersphere. Supposing a properly physical (if not fully metaphysical) “grand unifying theory” is eventually discovered, there still remains the philosophical problem of unifying physics with biology, psychology, and spirituality. During…

  • Existential Entrepreneurship…

    Existential Entrepreneurship…

    I do not agree with everything here. But that is why I need to work on developing my own concept of the existential entrepreneur. Still, there are some very good point in this piece; the information about this study is especially intriguing. …In a series of experiments at MIT and…

  • ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities

    ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities

    My good sister & colleague Kelli Barr responded to the ARTSblog piece to which I posted a link the other day. Besides a response here at Reason & Existenz, she also wrote a longer reaction at ARTSblog. She goes into very intriguing detail. Very much worth the read as a…

  • Sendicate: Reinventing Email Newsletters

    Cool idea shared over at Pandodaily on making email newsletters easier & more enticing. There is something really nice about email, and I am happy to see that not everyone is giving up completely on the platform. Last month, I made a discovery that now seems obvious: email is not…

  • New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents

    While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what advertisers are learning about them, according to a new report…

  • Hacking Your Education, Part 2

    And here is part 2 of the talk I gave in September 2012 to students at the University of North Texas.  [You can find Part 1 here.] Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 2 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo.

  • Hacking Your Education, Part 1

    A talk I gave to a group of University of North Texas students back in September. Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 1 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. [You can watch Part 2 here]

  • Underpants Gnomes: A Critique of the Academic Left « Larval Subjects .

    Nice engagement over at Larval Subects of the issues that brought a lot of thinkers I know to put forward notions of “field philosophy.” …Even though these critiques are often right, we express them in ways that only an academic with a PhD in critical theory and post-structural theory can…

  • Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate the epistemological orientations of political journalists vs. that of social…

  • The Most Deadly Drug: Alcohol

    In 2009, David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist who served as chair of Britains Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD, published a paper in a medical journal that offered a provocative thesis: horseback riding, he wrote, was more dangerous than taking ecstasy. Examining the two activities across a range of…

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition, accomplishment or progress toward goals,” said Gruman, co-founder of the…

  • Pedagogy by Carrot

    The majority of students today expect assignments with finite parameters, clear grading paths, and a checklist of things they can tick off to get an A. “Pick my own topic for an essay? What do you mean by that? What topic do you want me to pick? Is there a…

  • The Corporate Professor

    I highly recommend all of the articles in the current issue of the Hedgehog Review. Here is the first one: Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University

  • Luciano Floridi visiting Denton

    I am very pleased that CSID has brought over this very interesting thinker, Luciano Floridi:  http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html He will be giving a couple of public lectures while here and also addressing a few classes. Here is a link for the two talks which will also get you to his abstracts: http://csid.unt.edu/engagement/speakers.html…