Engaging (higher education) students in learning now and in the future

John Seely Brown (JSB)


" the Digital Age calls for mash-ups, customization, multi-tasking, data mining, and collaboration by difference."


"Asking “are we preparing students for the interdisciplinary approach necessary to solving grand challenges?,” JSB advocated for entrepreneurial, playful approaches to learning. He celebrated the creative problem-solving represented by design practices, which bring together thinking and doing (“head and hand”), provide an environment where it is OK to fail, and engage in peer and collective critiquing to promote new perspectives. "




Full article by Lisa Spiro, the director of NITLE labs, editor of the Digital Research Tools Wiki, and author of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog. You may find her on Twitter as @lisaspiro.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/imagining-the-future-of-the-university/39021

Being Alone

This is a beautiful and wonderful poem and movie short about being alone and why it is sometimes the very very best life has to offer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

the greatness of humility

This is so well said, I had to share - thanks Luke (who ever you are)
http://lukenewman.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/humility/

"...why would anyone want to be humble if it means you can’t be proud of accomplishements?  People who look at humility this way just don’t get it.  Humility is not about rejecting pride in a job well done.  Humility merely allows for the possibility of imperfection.  It’s admitting that there may be someone out there who could possibly have done a better job."

"Most conflict resolution requires humility because you have to admit the possibility of being wrong."