Tag: 2012

Faster pace of innovation

As education becomes increasingly digitized, educators can experiment and track alternative approaches, measure and identify what works, share their findings, and replicate the best approaches in other subjects…

Turning on mobile learning in europe

The second barrier to mobile learning is negative social attitudes held by policy-makers, parents and teachers about the use of mobile phones in schools. Mobile phones are widely…

A Rational Theory Of Miracles

If you add up the numbers and the objective data about the situation of the planet, there’s no chance that it or the human race can survive: there…

Styrker mulighed for undervisningsdifferentiering

It styrker lærerens muligheder for at undervisningsdifferentiere og giver dermed en øget mulighed i forhold til elever med særlige behov. Undersøgelser* viser, at når digitale læringsmidler bruges som…

Klasseværelset som eksperimentarium

Nye teknologier deler en række grundlæggende fællestræk med teknologi, der ikke fungerer. […] Ved nærmere eftertanke indser man dog let, at selve potentialet for en teknologi kan være…

Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education

While there are many reasons to remain optimistic about new initiatives to transform the learning process, it must be acknowledged that, first, traditional exam results and, indeed, possession…

Inadaptation

L’éducation, l’instruction n’ont plus aucune “gratuité”, doivent servir efficacement. Et toutes les critiques dirigées envers l’enseignement tournent toujours autour de ceci: “On apprend des quantités de choses inutiles….

Edu-business

This chapter moves on from where the last left off. Here we look again into the world of multinational edu-business and begin to explore the buying and selling…

Addiction by design

I undertake what the philosopher of technology Don Ihde has alternately called a “phenomenology of human-technology” and “materialist phenomenology”. Such an approach avoids the tendency of strict materialism…

This-worldly conception

Phenomenology endorses a this-worldly conception of objectivity and reality and seeks to overcome the scepticism that argues that the way the world appears to us is compatible with…

Levende leksikon

Hvad angår den frie kultivering af sindets kræfter, må det bemærkes, at den hele tiden står på. Den bør egentlig rette sig mod de højere kræfter. De lavere…

Alien belief systems

Reason is a great naturalizer, and public reason naturalizes much that seems arbitrary in politics. Once we are persuaded of the reasonableness of an argument or action, it…

Mémoire de la machine vs. mémoire humaine

La mémoire de la machine triomphe dans la multitude et dans le désordre; la mémoire humaine triomphe dans l’unité des formes et dans l’ordre. Gilbert simondon Simondon, G….

Curious rituals