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Today is one of those days where, and when, I feel that I know nothing.
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towerofsleep: Image: Kasimir Malevich, Red Square, 1915 JUNE MIX: RED SQUARE (click to DL) 1. Bullion – the age of self (Robert Wyatt)2. Here We Go Magic – make up your mind3. King Tuff – bad thing4. Neneh Cherry & The Thing – dream baby dream (Four Tet remix)5. Major Lazer ft. Collie Buddz &…
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Thus The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects was born, thanks to a unintentional error most McLuhan biographers sweep under the carpet. But, the legend goes, once McLuhan saw the typo, he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great and right on target!” The title of the book was suddenly open to four possible…
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weightofobjects: “I was awarded this pin in April when I was named my high school class’s valedictorian. I was especially honored by it because I am only the second African American valedictorian at my school, I’m the first in my family to be acknowledged this way, and, because of it, I know that the person…
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[M]y mission is to have every precocious 13-year-old in the world have access to every bit of information they could ever want. Salman Kahn quoted in an article by Marco R. della Cava in USA Today. Sal Khan’s ‘Academy’ sparks a tech revolution in education (via protoslacker)
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If you want to assess, allowing people to keep trying wasn’t going to get you a good signal of their ability. But then if you think about it for two seconds you have to wonder why we want a good signal of these students’ ability. This is not assessment for accreditation so who cares about…
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This is when I started to learn more about this medium. The issue is one of design. University lectures are designed to bring everyone along. They have to because you need to build up knowledge and it can’t be easily chunked. This is tolerated when people are in a lecture hall but online for even…
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smarterplanet: What My 11 Year Old’s Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education – Forbes My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice ring to it but it is actually meaningless because these days anyone can take a course at Stanford. You don’t even have to pay. All…
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hautepop: Brute Force Architecture by Bryan Boyer14 May 2012 How Rem Koolhaas’s OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) rewired their office in the late 1990s into a brute force creative machine. One method stands out: blue foam New and faster ways to evaluate architectural proposals were needed, namely new means of drawing and model making that…
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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 notational: (via Cathy N. Davidson Says it is Time to Relearn Learning | Duke University | Big Think) (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)