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Faulty new-age reasoning?
08.21.10 | Permalink | Comments

I’m going to use a sentence from a person I admire and follow, whose work I am fond of. Thus I am not disclosing the name. Still there are too many new-age-like thoughts that need to be uncovered and an inference apparently sound becomes untrue. You may say I am lacking poetic sense. But this [...]
education, web-20
Symposium. Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue
05.11.09 | Permalink | Comments

Symposium “Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue”
And now, it’s minus four days to the Symposium: Science & Web 2.0 to be held at Sagrado Corazón, May 15th, 8:00am-1:00pm. Registration is free through http://stemmed.sagrado.edu/simposio!
Get there early, and enjoy Mike Wesch’s keynote Mediated Culture / Mediated Education:
It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge [...]
education, nonsense
Canada’s science minister is a creationist?
03.17.09 | Permalink | Comments

Canada’s science minister is a creationist – Boing Boing, also from a Tweet by Stephen Downes.
Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution.
“I’m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don’t think anybody asking [...]
education, innovation, media, philosophic-discourse, web-20
thoughtware.tv: science at one’s fingertips!
10.08.08 | Permalink | Comments

I am very proud of Andrés Colón, who was a student of mine and worked with me for a while. He is brilliant and a very modest person. But he developed a Web wonder, a video-sharing system for scientific advance.
He worked out the concept, the design and the implementation of Thoughtware.TV: Videos on Human Progress. [...]