Judy Breck anticipates an open education future will let knowledge form, ideas emerge and understanding to be shared. A good summary of what open education aspires to be: a golden swamp with all sort of treasures found there in.
Category Archives: Linking Thinking
Apologies All Around
Today’s tendency to make amends for the crimes of history begs the question which horrific acts deserve apologies and which ones get the other cheek? Our often unbearable history should do more than generate vacuous, egotistical apologies; it also “chastens, tempers, rigorously instructs. The more we know of it, the better.”
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Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality
Two physicists use science to point out the inconsistencies associated with the idea of ghosts, vampires and zombies depicted in Hollywood movies. Heat always moves from a hotter to colder objects. Bring out your basic science and critical thinking skills the next time Halloween apparitions seem a little too real.
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KM: still a long road ahead
Survey respondents of a report commissioned by Attunity show that the tools and strategies we come up with to cope in the information age are inadequate. Managers spend a disproportionate amount of time digging for rather than managing information.
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Social Decision-Making: Insights from Game Theory and Neuroscience
Many of our decisions make sense only within a social environment. Sanfey shows how game theory models and neuroimaging methods help define the processes underlying social decision-making.
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Introducing the Book
What happens when you are a monk used to transcribing scrolls and you are faced with the new technology called “book”? Well, you call the help desk.
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The Audiocast Diaries
Government regulation of the radio industry heavily turned it into a one-way medium, controlling content, and limiting frequencies and ownership. Maybe this new technology [a convergence of podcasting, radio and mobile phones], which allows two-way communications, will change radio back to its origins of a two-way medium, as it was in Marconi’s day.
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The Changing Face of Workplace Learning
The future of workplace learning is mobile, and distributed mobile at that.
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A brain can recall almost everything, practically nothing, or something in between. If nothing else, this month’s National Geographic reaffirms the utter weirdness of human memory. Truth is indeed a memory.