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Why design should be rated alongside science | Education | The Guardian
The exclusion of design subjects from Stem ignores the coterminous nature of these subjects, with science in the employment market and the strategic significance of design as a contributor to the economy.
Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel « Folklore Forum
Bruner comes to the startling conclusion that tourists’ perceptions are more important in developing touristic representations of culture than are the actual cultures themselves. In other words, it is more important to give tourists what they expect to see than it is to give them authenticity
Full Circle Associates » Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking
By recognizing the power of external support from individuals, communities and networks, we can begin to design this triangulation into our work. This suggests some competencies and actions, as well as some pitfalls to avoid.
Yong Zhao ELDA Summer Institute
Very smart debunking the international education gap myth, exploration of learning skills.
The Ph.D Problem
The weakest professional, because he or she is backed by the collective authority of the group, has an almost unassailable advantage over the strongest non-professional (the so-called independent scholar) operating alone, since the non-professional must build a reputation by his or her own toil, while the professional’s credibility is given by the institution. That is one of the reasons that people are willing to pay the enormous price in time and income forgone it takes to get the degree: the credential gives them access to the resources of schol-arship and to the networks of scholars that circulate their work around the world. The non-academic writer or scholar is largely deprived of those things.
What sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and Internet identity - O'Reilly Radar
Eliminating the distinction between front stage and back stage not only degrads the workers' performance but causes intense distress--yet that is exactly the situation on most Internet forums. Very rarely can people collaborating or sharing information on a public forum pull aside into a private space.
Futurity.org – Separating historical fact from film fiction
The misleading effect occurred even when people were reminded of the potentially inaccurate nature of popular films right before viewing the film,” Butler says.
“However, the effect was completely negated when a specific warning about the particular inaccuracy was provided before the film,”
Caroline Haythornthwaite - September 28th
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I think it suits perfectly to say that the person-to-person network tied by common reading is a learning network. However, without other corroboration, I would not like to call it a learning community because for that I would like to see actual interpersonal ties.
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I think it becomes quite confusing if we mix people and resources as nodes,
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Teleological design – definition and weaknesses « The Weblog of (a) David Jones
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Add Sticky NoteThe definition of a teleological design process, it’s ultimate purpose, is to set and achieve objectives, to be purpose driven
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Add Sticky NoteAny action not seen to contribute to achievement of the stated purpose is seen as inefficient and not effective and must be avoided. The intermediate goal is to maintain effectiveness and efficiency in the achievement of the ultimate purpose. The focus of teleological design becomes how to achieve the stated ends, how to reduce the distance between the current state and the established purpose (Jones and Muldoon 2007).
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