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03 Dec 09

Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills | Britannica Blog

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Common Core Critiques '21st Century Skills' (and the Partnership Responds) - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

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Tuttle SVC: What's Driving "21st Century Skills?"

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Critiques of pedagogy implied or suggested as a result of these standards are valid, but beside the point. The community, including business, sets the standard. It is the responsibility of schools to figure out ways of meeting them. How else is it supposed to work?

White Collars Turn Blue - The New York Times

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Flawed Assumptions Undergird the Program at the Partnership for 21st-Century Skills | Britannica Blog

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Just about anything one likes can be presented as a component of
"21st-century" schooling. It's like "new and improved" except that here we're selling books and conferences instead of dessert toppings and floor
waxes. The appropriate response to this use, I believe, is either to roll your eyes or to point out that this particular emperor is parading around
in his birthday suit.
Second, to invoke the current century is sometimes meant to suggest an economic justification (and direction) for schooling
rather than a focus on what kids need. Notice how often terms like "competitiveness" and "global economy" tend to accompany "21st century skills."
The appropriate response here is alarm and active resistance, for reasons I tried to explain in
this article.
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- A fair number of educators are using "21st-century skills" to refer to relatively sophisticated intellectual activity -
  the sort that includes critical thinking, creativity, and learning about ideas "in a context and for a purpose" (as I like to say). Notice that
  this instructional agenda has two separate implications: It favors higher-order skills as opposed to low-level skills, and it emphasizes the importance
  of skills -- ways of learning and thinking -- as opposed to facts.
- In his 1941 book Escape From Freedom, meanwhile, the psychoanalyst and
  social critic Erich Fromm wrote: "The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality.
  Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts
  so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but 'information' alone
  can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it."
- this third meaning of "21st-century," the only one that's actually kind of progressive, is the one that's come under a withering and apparently
  coordinated attack from the "core knowledge" contingent.
- This approach to education is worth endorsing only if we are very clear that the reason for helping kids to think deeply and critically, to evaluate and
  apply knowledge, is because these capacities will enrich their lives and contribute to the common good in a democratic society. Not because it will
  outfit them with skills that will be useful to the corporations where they may eventually work, thereby allowing one company -- or country - to triumph
  over another.
- In other words, apart from the means by which we educate (facts or skills, basic or advanced), we have to think about the ends.
  Even if there really were something new about 21st-century schooling, fostering "competitiveness in a global economy" is a wretched rationale for
  providing it. And that will continue to be true even when the next century rolls around.

19 Nov 09

Views: Palintology - Inside Higher Ed

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18 Nov 09

Anything but flat: A book review « Neuroanthropology

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17 Nov 09

The Immanent Frame » So you want to be a new atheist

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11 Nov 09

Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.com

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24 Oct 09

Critical thinking? You need knowledge - The Boston Globe

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30 Sep 09

Forget Shorter Showers | Derrick Jensen | Orion Magazine

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29 Sep 09

Paradise Tossed: Three Theses on the Impossibility of Future Progress « Generation Bubble

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Technologically mediated sociality, rather than becoming the means by which radical democracy takes hold, is simply a testament to that very idea’s impotence.
a person’s reading proceeds geometrically while tweeted content expands exponentially
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- What’s more, we face a very McLuhanesque danger in which the medium quite literally becomes the message; all these romantic imaginings of spontaneous uprising are projected onto the technology, which consequently acquires a sort of messianic aura in the process and turns reportage into gospel. Perception management thus becomes more a bottom-up that a top-down affair purely as a consequence of situational constraints: a handful of tech-enabled eyewitnesses tweet their observations, which provokes a frenzy of re-tweets from which reporters, barred access to the scene of the action, cherry-pick with nothing to guide them but their intuitions as to the information’s reliability. The net effect is, then, that rather than offering immediacy, events like Twitter Revolutions introduce added layers of mediation, such that it is incredibly difficult to evaluate information sources. Call it crowd-sourced propaganda; it’s certainly not objective reportage.
- Prophets of social-media enhanced news reporting also tend to overlook the class element of their rosy prognostications. A trip to any library serving poor inner-city neighborhoods quickly reveals what social media’s revolutionary potential means to large portions of the citizenry. It means waiting an hour for a half-hour turn on a computer that was obsolete four years ago. This, I think, the dialectical image of the Twitter Revolution, which is really just an internecine power struggle between a monied superclass and its tech-savvy auxiliary. The former seek to preserve oligarchy; the latter to establish technocracy.

24 Sep 09

Neuroskeptic: fMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish

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16 Sep 09

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

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the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
he small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
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- Twitter's growth has been so rapid that it is clearly bumping up against the limits of its usefulness. It is not only increasingly full of noise, but the sheer volume of stuff coming through the Twitter fire hose renders even what was useful much harder to pick apart and make sense of.
- But it does raise the question of just how much engagement we can expect with Twitter as each user signs up to follow more feeds and each active Twitterer tries to tweet more and more often to break through the static.
- inks that were closely related to the main subject of the feed did substantially better
- orporate tweeting is inherently problematic. Corporations invariably believe that they take up a much bigger part of their customers' mental space than they actually do. As the novelty of Twitter wears off, the little attention that people do devote to most corporate feeds will decline even more; I suspect that in the near future many of them will seem as pointless as the inane White Castle home page of 1996.
- the way to keep followers engaged is to narrow their focus and stay on topic. This is quite different from the strategy that many folks now seem to pursue on Twitter, which is to flood the zone with lots of tweets in the hope that simply sending out more messages is the key to getting noticed.
- A lot of people have already had the experience of seeing Twitter abruptly go from engaging to essential to all-consuming. But it's become a little bit like the map that Lewis Carroll once envisioned: having grown to be as big as the world itself, it ceases to be valuable as a map. The question now is whether Twitter can be tamed before it too has grown too world-encompassing to be useful, and the cacophony of signals turns into pure noise.

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