Items to Share: 12 May

Education Focus

• Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com Sir Ken's latest.  

• Princeton Alumni Weekly: The future of education? Quite a long and considered article on MOOCs. 

• Peace, love and understanding | websofsubstance Harry Webb on using rote-learnt rules to solve maths problems--is it acceptable? 

• David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech “This is Water,” Remixed in a Short Video Rather hyped, but interesting 

• infed.org | Informal learning: theory, practice and experience 

Other Business

• Doctor Who Is the Greatest Jew on TV – Tablet Magazine ? 

• Are you inside the circle or outside? | Daniel Pink  Annotated global map--where the people are. 

• How to Spot a Weak Argument by Daniel Dennett. Simple, and it must surely be accurate... 

• He Conceived the Mathematics of Roughness by Jim Holt | The New York Review of Books On Benoit Mandelbrot 

• Philosophy, lit, etc.: A Kierkegaard bicentennial roundup I started gathering pieces on SK's 200th birthday, and then found that Paul Raymont had done it already.

• Your 5-Step Self-Defence Program Against Neuro-Nonsense | Psychology Today      

• The psychology of menus | Life and style | The Guardian