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Notes for a theory of contemporary education
notational: Very loose ideas floating around my head these days. Even if they are loopy or ridiculous, the seeds of something useful might be in here.Not sure about the mechanistic aspects. 1. We live in a day and age (and in many cases place) in which information is not a scarce resource. Due to the…
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laphamsquarterly: The No. 1 quote critics give me is, “Thom, your work is irrelevant.” My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture. “Thomas Kinkade dies at 54,” LA Times Susan Orlean, “Art for Everybody,” The New Yorker, 2001.
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Made with Paper
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It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said Rich Halverson, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on KidGrid, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear.…
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Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization
Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization nbclatino: Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws. Until, they partnered up with a statewide…
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emergentfutures: Human Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the Way the Brain Processes Visual Cortex Responses to That Image Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific task. The ability to respond to visual stimuli during a visual…
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slavin: I’m pretty sure this was not intended to be satirical. (Taken with instagram)
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Scientists discover booze helps with problem-solving
Scientists discover booze helps with problem-solving moocha: Getting a buzz from booze may boost creativity. Men who drank themselves tipsy solved more problems demanding verbal resourcefulness in less time than sober guys did, a new study finds. This changes everything. New company policy.
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It was Tobey’s, now it’s mine…and hopefully next it will be a half-Hispanic, half-African American actor, Andrew Garfield (via orangemornings)
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The science of taste and of cultural consumption begins with a transgression that is in no way aesthetic: it has to abolish the sacred frontier which makes legitimate culture a separate universe, in order to discover the intelligible relations which unite apparently incommensurable ‘choices’, such as preferences in music and food, painting and sport, literature…