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29 Jun 08

The World's Fair - Barry Commoner, Science, and Action: Part II

  • In environmental circles, uncertainty reigns supreme. Whereas science has traditionally been regarded as an authoritative tool for providing solutions to many knowledge-based problems, it has been less successful in the recent environmental context because of increasing competition from other interests.
  • scientific findings are married with local knowledges, community surveys, leaked documents, and investigative journalism, breeding more confusion and less consensus. It doesn't matter how many scientists stand up and say that we should be really, really concerned about global warming or mercury poisoning or the loss of biodiversity, we're still not acting.
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06 Jun 08

Why Not Perpetual Progress? - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog

  • One of the most common mistakes of technoprophets is to assume that the the technology du jour will shape the future.
  • after watching the impact of computers on so many fields, I share Mr. Kurzweil’s belief that these tools are especially transformative and that change is just going to accelerate.
06 Jan 08

All epistemology begins in fear

  • All epistemology begins in fear - fear that the world is too labyrinthine to be threaded by reason; fear that the senses are too feeble and the intellect too frail; fear that memory fades, even between adjacent steps of a mathematical demonstration; fear that authority and convention blind; fear that God may keep secrets or demons deceive.
  • it is the individual who is suspect
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20 Oct 07

Generation YES Blog » Blog Archive » Digital natives/immigrants - how much do we love this slogan?

  • Calling students “digital natives” is an excuse for not actually teaching them about technology.
  • Kids need adults to guide them to use these tools wisely and for appropriate academic purposes.
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04 Sep 07

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Improvisatory Sharpening: more on field vs armchair progress

  • the “methodological sharpening” of fieldwork concerns not so much shared technologies or shared concepts, but shared pedagogy—both that of the mentors and that of the students. Shared pedagogy is what allows students to figure out what they are doing before and during fieldwork, what questions seem to provoke interest and response, and which texts remain “open” for working through.

powerpointless?

  • A long list of PowerPoint (and PowerPoint-type) caveats and critiques. - forestfortrees on 2007-09-04

Presentation Zen

  • A blog which highlights different presentation and presentation design techniques and offers pointers, tips, and guidelines.
     - forestfortrees on 2007-09-04
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