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In other words: technology’s not the problem. It’s the context. Just ask Plato about writing, or Gutenburg about books, or Dante about Italian, or painters about photography, or record company executives about sampling … The Liberal Arts Are Dead — The Synapse — Medium
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By denying students the use of technology in the classroom, we send the message that technology is a distraction from real learning. I find this perspective increasingly untenable. Gerald R. Lucas, The Liberal Arts Are Dead — The Synapse — Medium
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This system creates students, first, then functionaries upon graduation that learn the “official angle” and cannot operate without the hierarchy of control. Imagination and creativity only get in the way of the obedience necessary to function successfully in those bureaucracies. The problem is, Sterling observed in 2000, that the stable roles (jobs) this system used…
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My Teacher Leader Manifesto
My Teacher Leader Manifesto gjmueller: My Teacher Leader Manifesto Teacher is the pinnacle title of civilization because teaching is society’s foundational activity. However, in American education today there is a nation-wide teacher shortage, a randomly selected teacher is statistically likely to be in his or her first year in the classroom, and veteran teachers discourage…
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ucresearch: UC Berkeley unveils first-of-its-kind, 3-D-printed cement structure The freestanding pavilion, “Bloom,” is 9 ft high and has a footprint that measures about 12 ft x 12 ft. It is composed of 840 customized blocks that were 3-D-printed using a new type of iron oxide-free Portland cement polymer formulation developed by Ronald Rael. The debut…
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ecoody: And that’s a dissertation draft!
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chaosophia218: The Flower of Life is the modern name given to a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles. They are arranged to form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry. Within the Flower Of Life’s concentric circle pattern lies another pattern – the The Fruit of Life. This symbol is composed of 13…
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femfreq: The first episode of our mini-series focusing on Positive Female Characters in video games will premiere this week!
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designfictions: Exercising our green thumbs! Top 4 images taken yesterday at our 2015 Green Screen (Chroma Key) workshop… In preparation for the production of their Design Fiction video prototypes. Bottom 3 images of a 2014 student group making their DesFi video prototype (for the Brisbane Airport) using green screening techniques. See their final video here: http://designfictions.tumblr.com/post/87560454080/eq-wall-video-prototype-using-green-screening And…