Category Archives: Linking Thinking

Link­ing to what oth­ers are think­ing about learn­ing as a way to explore how we learn online.

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Being an Unperson →

“There is no such thing as a true unper­son. An unper­son is a ghost, a prej­u­dice in people’s minds.” A beau­ti­ful and ter­ri­fy­ing video of how we let peo­ple know they don’t mat­ter by some­one who clearly does.

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You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it →

Dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sor of lit­er­a­ture Pierre Bayard explains how to appear extremely well-read with­out turn­ing a page.

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Shrinkwrap Licenses →

Shrinkwrap and click­wrap agree­ments start with the phrase “READ CAREFULLY.” If you actu­ally did this, you would dis­cover these “agree­ments” make a mock­ery of the law and of the very idea of form­ing agreements.

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Al Gore’s Foot Soldiers →

Want to really send a mes­sage? Make a movie and train dozens to dis­sem­i­nate its mes­sage a la for­mer US Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore’s 2006 doc­u­men­tary An Incon­ve­nient Truth.

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Learning with Audio: Lessons from Television — Monk, House, MD, and NCIS →

“In medias res” is a tech­nique used in TV and film in which the viewer is cat­a­pulted into the mid­dle of the action, usu­ally a dra­matic pvio­tal moment on which the rest of the plot is struc­tured. What is acti­vated is emo­tional involve­ment…

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Unhappy Meals →

The mes­sage is: eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Sim­ple. So why is it so dif­fi­cult to learn?

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Intelligence in the Classroom →

Half of all kids are below aver­age intel­li­gence and too many Amer­i­cans go to col­lege. Strong views, all based on the critically-flawed IQ test. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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The Mystery of Consciousness →

100 mil­lion neu­rons cre­ate the knowl­edge (or illu­sion) that you exist. Yes, the biol­ogy of con­scious­ness offers a sounder basis for moral­ity than unprov­able dog­mas about God or an immor­tal soul.

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A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell →

Librar­i­an­ship is more about infor­ma­tion man­age­ment, data­base net­work­ing and mak­ing the sale, and less about the books to read.

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The Neurology of Self Awareness →

The uniquely human abil­ity to see the world from oth­ers’ point of view evolved in response to social needs. An unex­pected bonus was the abil­ity to intro­spect our own thoughts and inten­tions.

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