John Seely Brown on Tinkering
Posted on February 3, 2009 - Filed Under | 3 Comments
JSB is a sharp dude. This video offers lots of things to chew on regarding play and invention in learning. As I watched it, I found myself in the unlikely spot of thinking about creative writing workshops and flarf simultaneously (if only he didn’t sneak in the bit about giving credit to those whose [...]
Read More..>>Is this true?
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under | 1 Comment
From the Princeton Alumni Weekly…what humanists want from libraries:
Still, Grafton believes that humanists will want to wander the stacks. ‘Students need to be in the library because that’s how you learn your fields of scholarship,’ he says. ‘I don’t actually think you can learn it on the Web in the way you learn it by [...]
In the long run…
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.” — John Maynard Keynes
Read More..>>ReBlog: Peter Klausler, American Cargo Cult
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under | 1 Comment
From http://klausler.com/cargo.html
Peter Klausler on
Principles of the American Cargo Cult
“I wrote these principles after reflecting on the content of contemporary newspapers and broadcast media and why that content disquieted me. I saw that I was not disturbed so much by what was written or said as I was by what is not. The tacit [...]
