Date: 20 February 2006 To: All Participants From: Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Supporting the University’s Strategic Vision Our Basic Concerns The University of Minnesota is at a crossroads in its path for success in the 21st century. With a goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world [...]
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter,
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
Archive for February, 2006
ULA Workshop with Verna Allee
2/11/2006
(Cross-posted from the ULA blog.) Our workshop with Verna Allee on February 1 was a great success! If you registered for the workshop and would like an electronic copy of the handout materials, please send a request by email to ula@umn.edu.
Virtual professors?
2/9/2006
While the “dot edu” bubble has generated much interested in pedagogical technologies, issues of how the technologies are implemented and integrated into the curriculum typically do not enter the discussion. Poor implementation is perhaps a leading reason for why the dot edu boom has done little to actually improve student learning. LiveScience.com reports on a [...]
Solution Watch: Comment tracking with coComment
2/6/2006
Solution Watch writes about coComment: The way it works is very simple. When you signup to coComment, you are given a bookmarklet that you are asked to add to your browser. Then, the next time you come across a blog post that you want to comment on, click on the bookmarklet before commenting. You will [...]
Ottawa Business Journal: Googlemania in 2006
2/6/2006
The Ottawa Business Journal reports that Google, is poised to replace email as the most-used digital thanks to higher-speed connections and the ever-growing mountain of digital data. The company predicts the scope of search, while still based on text-based key words, will expand to include digital data held on devices such as PCs, mobile phones, [...]
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