Only have a few moments, but I wanted to link to Ulises’s characteristically thoughtful post concerning the Harper’s discussion I pointed to yesterday, one which prompts a response from one of the principals (I was meaning to see if Koster had a blog). Both posts elaborate on some of the elements I found most intriguing in the original piece. Other worthy takes here and here.
social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
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- practice routine using guitar chords"how to practice playing major, minor, and dominant guitar chords in their inversions and increase your playing speed, harmonic knowledge, and overall guitar technique." […]
- Neave Television ...telly without contextI don't know what this is... […]
- surveillance and civic action"This one-day workshop seeks to brings together activists, artists and academics working on issues relating to cybersurveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. A central concern is to understand better digitally mediated surveillance practices, making them more publicly visible and amenable to democratic resistance or oversight. […]
- Taking history back from the "storytellers" (Rick Prelinger)"While context is essential to really understand and work with most moving images, overbearing narration, emotionally invasive music and highly personalized visions of history don't constitute context. Bits and pieces from our collections are being woven into works that don't really speak to the value of their components." […]
- Generations (4): PsychonautsBrowbeating, Codebreaking - Tags: Albert Einstein, Aleister Crowley, brainiac, Carl Jung, Charles Fort, Edgar Cayce, Ernest Shackleton, generations, Gerald Gardner, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gurdjieff, Houdini, Howard Carter, Igor Stravinsky, Jack London, James Joyce, Marie Vassilieff, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Peter D. Ouspensky, Pierre Teilhard de […]
- eLearning 2010Archived featured sessions, including Late Night Learning Live!, the Reverend's Sermon, and the incomparable Nancy White. […]
- Americans growing more skeptical of college motives and costs"this year's survey compared to earlier ones shows a steady increase in the number of people who say higher education is more concerned with its bottom line than the educational experience of students." […]
- Alan Cooper's All About HomonymsInsanely detailed... […]
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l’ve just opened a bank account from NatWest. I was wodnering if, as soon as Its been activated, can l use my NatWest bank card to ordfer things off the Webnet? Like on shopping and stuff, or will l need a Debitcard. I don’t really understand how to order things on the internet as this is my first bank card.
Thx
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