Archive for January, 2006

Economist: St. Lawrence of Google

1/14/2006

From the Economist: “Google was started by two Stanford students who turned an intellectual obsession into a quest, says Mr Moritz. And what is that quest? Merely upstaging Microsoft would be almost banal. “We’re not trying to build a better operating system,” says Mr Schmidt (although that will not kill the rumour). Part of the [...]


New life for EFR blog

1/9/2006

The Ethnographic Futures Research blog at http://cbdd.typepad.com/efr/ has found a second life. This site provides background information for the method as well as descriptions of previous EFR-based research projects. This site also offers a specific focus on “advancing the science” of the method.”


Related posts

Bienvenida and welcome!

Saludos! …to visitors from the UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar! I hope that this blog will serve as good resource for exploring issues surrounding knowledge and innovation societies. There are three easy ways to navigate this site to find the information you’re interested in: Use the search box at the top of this page. Browse the list [...]


Using tech to teach the same old garbage

Folks, when you use new technologies to teach the same old garbage, you’re not going to get the results that you want. The NY Times started to touch on this in their article, Seeing no progress, some schools drop laptops: …the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting [...]


Blidget: Blog meets widget

This seems like a good idea. From Crunch Gear: Widgetbox, a marketplace for Web widgets, now lets you quickly and easily build a widget for your blog. Called Blidgets, they combine the power of RSS feeds with the “easy page integration of widgets.” The Blidget Maker auto-discovers RSS feeds, images and descriptions for the blog [...]


Scott’s list of education blogs

Just a quick note… Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant compiled a list of his take at what the top 30 education blogs might look like, based on Technorati rankings. He ranks himself at #24. Congratulations, Scott! The list, itself, is interesting. Read his post, then download the Excel file.


A reflection on the future of education from the blogosphere

“hschmidt07” reflects on Dewey and wonders: [...] how children should be educated in an unpredictable world, in an unending arena of expansion known as the age of information. The advent of this new face of society has evolving needs calling for many types of leadership. This is where I strongly agree with Dewey’s poignant statement [...]


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