RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • The “static, sensual present” The other night, I found this nice piece about Debussy and Japan. It talks about the importance of negative space in Japanese visual culture (I didn’t know they have a specific term for it – Ma), Shakuhachi music, and how Debussy apparently “eschews forward-thrusting, teleological development in favour of a static,…

  • smarterplanet: Smart Sutures That Detect Infections – Technology Review Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have now coated them with sensors that could monitor wounds and speed up healing. The electronic sutures, which contain ultrathin silicon sensors integrated on polymer or silk strips, can be threaded through needles, and in animal tests researchers…

  • protoslacker: The Forbidden Education: documentary on alternatives The documentary is divided in 10 thematic episodes. Each of them present a different aspect of education in the school context and outside of it. Topics like history of school system; authority and power in schools; evaluation and segregation of students; social function of educative institutions; role of…

  • Education. Kahn Academy precursor. Available at any office supply store near you. At a price point that is considered “remainder” for traditional book publishers.

  • Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation.

    Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation. Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation, who seek scalable education reform. I cannot see who is delivering the workshop, but it points to IDEO resources and a book about “lean startups” that pursue “constant innovation. "constant innovation”…

  • Design Thinking for Educators

    Design Thinking for Educators tool kit by IDEO. Outlines design as a five step process. Contrast with Schon, who identified it as a two stage cycle of Reflection and Action.

  • kateoplis: “Welcome to my latest experiment. I am the Coquette, and I’ve carved out this little corner in the hallowed halls of Playboy to spread around a thick layer of brutal truth on the current state of modern masculinity in the hopes that some of it sticks to the back of your eyeballs. This column…

  • megazord: Seems like a good price

  • The term “illegal immigrant” was first used in 1939 as a slur by the British toward Jews who were fleeing the Nazis and entering Palestine without authorization. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel aptly said that “no human being is illegal.” Why ‘illegal immigrant’ is a slur – CNN.com (via subalterity)

  • My older son starts his college career tomorrow in interactive media at the School for Cinematic Arts at USC, also known as game design. I found this as I was cleaning out a drawer. I have no idea how old it is. It fills me with all sorts of complex emotions.