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20 Dec 09
After a decade of fear, we're connected to writing in new ways -- latimes.com
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According to the NEA, more than 112 million people are literary readers (that is, readers of "novels and short stories, plays, or poems")
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What has changed is our sense of text as fixed, not fluid, as something solid to which we can return again and again.
12 Dec 09
Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing: Why administrators don't listen
"If aliens came to Earth and wanted to take down America without firing a shot, this would be the ticket: Infiltrate public education, teach the children to think conceptually about nothing, and then pretend to fret as the country falls to its knees. It’s the perfect crime. "
30 Oct 09
Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools | Technology | Los Angeles Times
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The curriculum should include computer science. Mathematics should include statistics. The curriculums should really adjust
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He advocated putting all textbooks on computers, to make for easier access, and for putting high school students to work -- writing Wikipedia articles, and teaching technology to senior citizens and middle school students. In teaching, they will learn.
13 Sep 09
El café de Ocata: Frankenstein y la sociedad terapéutica
"¿Acaso te pedí, creador, que transformases en hombre el barro del que vengo? ¿Acaso te rogué alguna vez que me sacaras de la oscuridad?”"
06 Jul 09
Times Higher Education - Edict curtailing freedom to work at home 'appals' staff
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The Liverpool Hope document states that working from home should be an "exception to the norm and can be authorised only by a dean in each instance".
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"The document appears to be arguing for a 'presence culture'," a spokesman said, arguing that it ignored the time lecturers spent on preparation and assessment via the internet.
01 Jul 09
Don Tapscott: Note to President Obama: Want to Fix the Schools? Look to Portugal!
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So Prime Minister Jose Socrates took a courageous step. He decided to invest heavily in a "technological shock" to jolt his country into the 21st century. This meant, among other things, that he'd make sure everyone in the workforce could handle a computer and use the Internet effectively.
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So Portugal launched the biggest program in the world to equip every child in the country with a laptop and access to the web and the world of collaborative learning. To pay for it, Portugal tapped into both government funds and money from mobile operators who were granted 3G licenses. That subsidized the sale of one million ultra-cheap laptops to teachers, school children, and adult learners.
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28 Apr 09
Teaching as transparent learning « Connectivism
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My argument is this: when we make our learning transparent, we become teachers. Even if we are new to a field and don’t have the confidence to dialogue with experts, we can still provide important learning opportunities to others.
07 Jan 09
Eurozine - Forget journals! - E. Efe Çakmak, Mark C. Taylor An interview with Mark C. Taylor
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What I want to stress is that language in today's world is not primarily verbal but is, more importantly, visual. The problem is that we are visually illiterate – and nowhere is this more evident than in the university. In the "real" world, image trumps word every time; in the academic world, word represses image all the time. If communication is going to become effective on a global scale, we must liberate the image from the tyranny of the word. This does not mean giving up reading and writing as they have been known in the past. But it is no longer enough. The multilingualism of young people today is multimedia. If we do not learn to communicate in this language, we will have nothing to say.
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Books and journals as we have known them are a thing of the past. Unfortunately, the last to understand this fact are universities and academics. Having said that, the question of how to respond remains to be addressed. In the coming decades, computing will become increasingly distributed and embedded. The movement from the PC to the handheld radicalizes decentralization and changes the nature of communication. People often complain – at least, professors do – that young people do not read anymore. But that is not true. They read all the time but they do not read books or long texts. Mobile technologies scramble everything and make it necessary to recast the terms of analysis. I do not think "transnational" is a useful term here. Again, it smacks of the past and does not help us to understand the reconstitution of political space that has already occurred. Think of everything as a web with constantly shifting nodes, which might be personal, social, economic or biological. The question is where and how to plug into this network.
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18 Dec 08
Commentary: Why we need an obesity tax - CNN.com
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For example, a study by Harvard researchers found that each additional 12-ounce soft drink consumed per day increases the risk of a child becoming obese by 60 percent. For adults, the association is similar.
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18 percent tax will reduce consumption by five percent.
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