Good Ideas Are Even Harder to Implement By Arana Greenberg. Resending of this newsletter to any number of colleagues is encouraged on a once-per-user basis, provided you also cc: emergency@creativedisturbance.net. In return, we will provide recipients with a one-month trial subscription. Any other unauthorized redistribution is a violation of copyright law. Pervasive Computing on the Horizon By Mark Beam (mark@creativedisturbance.net) The consolidation in the technology markets gives us all a much needed respite... time to catch up with everything... time to breathe a little. After some deep breathing, you can begin to see a new shape on the horizon - a different emphasis in the vision of the future - and it is centered around pervasive computing. In a San Francisco conference, (IT)2 Director Dr. How does it really feel to be in a pervasive computing environment? And where are the world's wireless Internet users? In the near-term, from a pure power and processing perspective, the wireless/appliances arena is decidedly low-tech.
EDWARD DE BONO - CoRT THINKING LESSONS | Edward de Bono. Colbert skewers Texas GOP on ‘critical thinking’ - The Answer Sheet. Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 07/19/2012 Jul 19, 2012 10:00 AM EDT TheWashingtonPost I thought I’d heard enough about the Texas Republican Party’s platform that rejects the teaching of critical thinking skills until I heard Stephen Colbert’s take on it. I wrote about this recently here, quoting from the platform: Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
After this was ridiculed, Texas GOP Communications Director Chris Elam told TPM.com that it was a mistake and that opposition to “critical thinking” wasn’t supposed to be part of the platform. Here’s some of his bit: ..The minds of our young people are being poisoned by knowledge... “And you know who I blame? Resolution or Resiliency?