Education focus
- Inklings: Please Rate the Overall Likability of the Instructor On evaluation instruments
- A Master List of 500 Free Courses From Great Universities (Open Culture) It's just a list, but useful nonetheless
- How mapping neurons could reveal how experiences affect mental wiring (Wired UK) On the connectome and how it relates to the genome and the physical structure of the brain.
- Is War Inevitable? (Discover Magazine) E O Wilson reckons it's part of human nature--just to cheer us all up!
- Smart people are especially prone to stupid mistakes - Boing Boing Jonah Lehrer on Daniel Kahneman
- Separated by a common language: introducing yourself In Britain and in the US--when do you mention your name?
- Deirdre N. McCloskey: Happyism (The New Republic) But how do you measure it?
- 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal (The Observer) "March of the Penguins" was never like this...
- First Contact (Colossal) Child meets manatee
- “Are you experienced?” (More or Less Bunk) Guest post on what students actually learn on-line--and reflections on hunting for a first teaching job (US).
In relation to Lehrer’s post, the following is very good too:
ReplyDeletehttp://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/the-dangers-of-being-smart
And on the subject of Lehrer, I don’t know if you’ve read this but it’s an excellent exemplar of a withering review by Steve Pool in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/19/imagine-creativity-jonah-lehrer-review
Thanks, Jim.
DeleteYes, I'm aware that Lehrer is getting stick from several quarters, and the more I have read around in the field, the more careful I am.
This time he is pointing to Kahneman, who is an easy read but also quite a challenge--I'm also for constructive teasers.
I haven't yet read Lehrer on creativity (that's your field!), but Pool's review is viciously snarky. Whether or not Lehrer deserves it, I don't know.
I've just finished "Proust was a Neuroscientist" (2007 US; 2012 UK) which is reassuring on his research base.