Are Universities Next?
OK. Who here is PC based and who is Mac? We all know that newspapers and TV networks are bloated and increasingly unproductive in the digital world. Big buildings, overstaffed, trapped with a 1950’s mentality of how things get...
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Required reading When I was much younger I had a girlfriend who was and still is a curator at the Louvre in Paris. She was very much the product of a classical European education, including private school in Paris...
Read moreSimpler and Simpler, Dumber and Dumber
1. Teaching Math In 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ? 2. Teaching Math In 1970s A logger sells a truckload of...
Read moreBe Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Really Scary Stuff! New technologies unleash changes that turn societies on their heads. These dislocations can be very disorienting. Even though the printing press was invented in 1452, its full impact was not really felt until the mid 18th...
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Sometimes it isn’t relative. Sometimes it is very specific… In a lovely new book, entitled The Canon, New York Times science writer Natalie Angier warns of the growing gap between knowledge of science and the real world in America.
Read moreThe Empire Strikes Back
“….gimme a sec Vader, and I’ll be right with you…..” A few days ago we wrote about the rise of the ‘peasants’ as they took control of the media. As in the 15th Century, the nobility is pissed off....
Read moreThe Case for Video Literacy
…..psst… on final cut pro how do you set the dissolve times again?…. The average American now watches more than 4.2 hours of television a day.
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