Intriguing Ourselves to Death…

Author: tom | 03 January 2008 | 8 Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, Greek Sculpture, The New WWW, Wikicademy

a plea for Education…
What follows isn’t anything new, but will likely be all too common - yet it serves as a concrete example of why education must change and what it must address.
Over an hour ago, I thought I’d better see if any comments had been made to a recent post of mine on the [...]

A “Vision” of Knowledge

Author: tom | 02 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Flat World Education, Web 2.0

File this post under: “Intriguing ourselves to Death”
Check the cool new mashup of Google Maps, Wikipedia and László Kozma’s programming that he calls WikipediaVision. It’s a great illustration of the changing nature of “knowledge.” WikipediaVision provides relatively realtime markers for who just added content to Wikipedia from where and on what topic. Like the [...]

The “outsourced brain”

Author: tom | 31 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, The New WWW, Web 2.0, Wikicademy

David Brooks’ Op-Ed piece “The Outsourced Brain” in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke his use of calculators for math (a given), iTunes for musical selection, search engines for memory of [...]