Month: August 2014
Schools and Factories
I mentioned today that schools are modelled on industrial era and factories. Probably didn’t make a lot of sense. So here’s a simple way to understand this. You’re in Year 7. The Yea... Read More
Content marketing is ruining the web. Its decline will be poetic justice | JR Hennessy | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Content marketing is ruining the web. Its decline will be poetic justice | JR Hennessy | Comment is free | theguardian.com. From The Guardian a little riposte on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) which... Read More
More Literacies
Lisha finds a definition of network literacy (which I find sort of uncanny as to the best of my knowledge Jill Walker and I were the first to coin the term when we wrote an abstract for a conference a... Read More
Confusion Rains
From an email I have just read based on a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education comes: Steve Kolowich, in “Confuse Students to Help Them Learn”, uses the example of a physics teacher wh... Read More
Nelson and Prescience
Seonaid on Ted Nelson’s speculative and critical arguments for what computers could and should do. George on choose your own adventure and hypertext. Rachel likes linear (many of us do) and its ... Read More
More Post Symposium Chatter
Rachel has another one about why numbers (quantity) versus who/what (quality) is probably a better measure of authority. Once upon a time one person said the sun was the centre of the solar system. On... Read More