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The Value of Learning
Learning is natural. We begin to learn before we are born. The wonderment of childhood in largely because of the excitement that comes with learning. What happens to the excitement and what value do we put on learning? In a world where we are facing problems of epic proportions (climate change, aging populations, dysfunctional democracy, uncertain energy…
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Information Scarcity & Information Abundance
I have written on this topic a number of times in the past. From a world (and an educational philosophy) built on information scarcity, we now find ourselves in a world of information abundance. I don’t know that we (as a community) have done very well in embracing this fundamental shift in…
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Willful Blindness & Education
Both the education and the higher part of higher education is broken.Research is the only game in town and as that relies more and more heavily on private (read: commercial) funding the research game becomes more and more private (and trivial). Research is the only game in town and as that relies…
