The Star Tribune’s Karen Youso interviewed me for what I thought would be a short sidebar article on accelerating change, but it wound up taking the full front page of the Variety section in today’s paper. I’m absolutely delighted to see mainstream media discuss the Technological Singularity! … especially since the article contains questions for [...]
"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, 2009
Is it too late to bring creativity to schools?
2/17/2009
An interesting conversation on creativity is emerging on the blogosphere. Many people saw Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk on reintroducing creativity into schools, and undermine assembly line approaches to creating automatons out of students. On Sunday, North Carolina 6th grade teacher Bill Ferriter countered, “Creativity is dead, Ken,” and outlined barriers in his classroom that [...]
Siftables: A promising future for toys
2/16/2009
Wow-oh-wow, oh wow!!!! From TED earlier this month: MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning? More elsewhere: Siftables at MIT D. Merrill, [...]
India’s $10 laptop to be unveiled soon
2/2/2009
Feb 4 2009 Update: Found at Technology Review: “It turns out that India’s ‘$20 laptop’ — a gadget meant to cheaply deliver online educational content to students at more than 18,000 Indian colleges — may actually be more of a handheld web access device than a laptop computer.” And, it doesn’t look like a laptop [...]
Can furloughs save land grant universities?
2/2/2009
A friend and colleague at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington wrote to me that, “UNCW MAY be doing furloughs like we saw at ASU. [...] they will say ‘take off a day a week.’” As more state-funded universities are looking at furloughs to help remedy financial crises, I’m starting to think that furloughs might not [...]
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