by andflywrite | Jul 9, 2013 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Article in NY Times on Facebook’s new Graph Search tool. Since it sort of creates “connections” between people…it might be a tool that undergirds some of the “structure” of a SLC. I suppose the core concept is that people generate...
by gary575 | Jun 27, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
This Tyler Cowen blog entry references a provocative study (gated) suggesting that there is a falling return on cognitive skill – which is a pretty scary proposition. I tend to subscribe to a couple of Tyler’s comments: 1) Rather than accepting “falling...
by andflywrite | Jun 26, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
George Packer’s recent book “The Unwinding”… and his recent article in the New Yorker on the politics and policy of Silicon Valley, take the temperature of a country undergoing great change in the Age of Info. Similar ground covered in recent...
by andflywrite | Jun 16, 2013 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Was curious about the gun violence in Chicago, where I was born and lived my toddlerhood. Came across this quote, which gives some context to the numbers we see here in NM for dropouts from school. And what can happen when kids problems are not addressed: The...
by andflywrite | Jun 15, 2013 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Today, we sort of take for granted that digital media is going to be somewhat “free” of total control by big media producers. Or some of us might be thinking that way. Like inexpensive access to online courses, for example. Ah, but have we been paying...
by andflywrite | Jun 10, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
When one examines our cultural present and inheritance for sources of learning that could/should be looked to for guidance in our revolution in learning… one can hardly avoid pondering how one of the western world’s greatest minds “fits in”....
