Category: philosophy
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Deficits of Joy & Human Clockspeed
Dr. David Orr, in the question and answer period following his presentation “The End of Education” shared with an audience at the University of British Columbia on January 13, 2006 (hour/minute/second mark 1:00:05 of the podcast), quoted a corporate CEO who stated the problem with his company was that they “suffered from a deficit of…
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Modern day gnosticism
Remember if you are not interested in reading posts like this about non-education/educational technology stuff, you can always subscribe to the “edtech only” feed for my blog. Tonight for fun (and in preparation for my continuing Sunday school teaching series about the theology of C.S. Lewis) I spent about an hour and fifteen minutes listening…
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Connectivism presentation and Articulate Presenter
The Connectivism presentation by George Siemens (the eLearnSpace author) is a great 35 minute multimedia reflection about teaching, learning, elearning, and web 2.0. George explores how learning today is often disconnected from the informationally robust environment in which we live and work. He discusses “distributed cognition” and “learning as network creation.” Great stuff, great thoughts,…
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The Elegant Universe
I watched part 1 of Brian Green’s NOVA special “The Elegant Universe” last night. What an amazing film and an engaging topic. I have an admission to make. I love physics. I did not major in science in college– but some of my favorite courses in high school were Engineering Physics, Atmosphere & Space Science,…
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Podcast11: Storytelling and Cognitive Neuroscience
This podcast features a skypecast interview with Dr. Bill Casebeer on the topic of Storytelling and Cognitive Neuroscience. Bill is a remarkable scholar and scientific researcher, engaged in work that has broad applicability in the fields of education, psychology, medicine, ethics, philosophy, and defense policy.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Just finished reading “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” today. Wow. I don’t read fiction that often anymore, I am mostly a nonfiction reader– but it sure is a blast to get hooked on a great story like this one! J.K. Rowling again spins a marvelous yarn, which thankfully ties up a lot of loose…
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Fun with 43 places, 43 things
My friend Mark Umstot told me earlier in the summer about the website 43 things, where you list up to 43 different goals you have in life and can see what other people share that goal, and what else they want to do. Last night I had a lot of fun (basically wasting time I…
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Make no mistake: Christianity is not equivalent to Islam
These thoughts are a response to a forwarded email concerning Islam, copied from this page on the Masjid Annur website. The main point here is not to discount the important need to respect people with other faiths, and accord them the equal protection they deserve and are due under the laws of our nation and…
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Thoughts on “The Crusade Against Evolution”
The October 2004 lead article in Wired Magazine, “The Crusade Against Evolution,” provides some interesting food for thought. If you have not yet read “The Crusade Against Evolution” in the October 2004 edition of Wired magazine, you should. The evolutionism vs creationism debate rages on, in some ways with more sophistication. One of the most…
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Why have science and print culture secularized us?
Some thoughts about comments Neil Postman makes in “Amusing Ourselves to Death” about the influence of print culture on religious belief, as well as a news report I saw today on TV. I really enjoyed reading Neil Postman’s book “Technopoly” several years ago, and I am now working on his earlier book “Amusing Ourselves to…