Tag Archives: Education
Read History. Be Fearless.
Academic environments are (theoretically) places where students come to be educated – they arrive on campuses after (typically) being cocooned for 16+ years – universities are where students emerge from their cocoons fundamentally transformed. Plato and Shame I’ve had the … Continue reading
Teaching Portfolio – Save Everything?
Normally when I talk about retaining data, I talk about retaining targeted information – don’t save everything, only what you need, and (if the information is about other people) only what you said you’d retain for particular stated purposes. I … Continue reading
Social Networking – Why We Need to Educate Youth
This is a short post, but gives three definitive examples of why we need to develop and instill norms in youth concerning how to use digital resources. Let’s help this hottie find her camera! Here’s the story (remember that…story). In … Continue reading
Education, Social Networks, and Privacy
In this post I want to consider privacy from a bit of a ‘weird’ point of view: What information do you want students to reveal to each other and yourself, and what do you want to reveal to them? What … Continue reading
