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02 Jul 09

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

  • This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessors—that if you change the fuel you change the whole system.
  • The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws.
11 Jun 08

Bonnie'sBlog: A great new book

  • idea of the “situated curriculum” by which she means learning as a localized practice in which “content is closely related to the specific set of local, material, economic, symbolic, and social characteristics of the field of practices and work activities.”
  • “The situated curriculum…exhibits an erratic, context-dependent, redundant, event-based and largely non-linear sequence where what to do, how to do it (and how to do it skillfully) are taught on an experiential basis and the novice ‘learns the ropes’ of the trade by imitation and contact with practitioners.”
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06 Jan 08

Objectivity: True-to-Nature

  • "To pursue objectivity--or truth-to-nature or trained judgment--is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community."
  • three kinds of representation in science, Truth-to-Nature, Mechanical Objectivity, and Trained Judgement.

Thirty Great Books on Education

  • He contrasts this with the postmodern possibility of a curriculum that is composed of �complex and spontaneous interactions,� a transformative process that embodies the new �Four R�s�: Richness (referring to curriculum�s depth, multiple layers of meaning, and multiple possibilities of interpretation); Recursion (the reflective interaction with the environment, others, culture, and with one�s own knowledge); Relations (the making of connections, and the understanding that our immediate perceptions integrate into a larger cultural, economic and cosmic matrix); and Rigor (conceived as a dialectic between the complexity of indeterminacy and critical interpretation).
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