Thursday, September 24, 2009

Blog Favs

Well, first of all, I am a bit of a contrarian. I like all of this techno change, even though I am a pitiful practitioner of it. I like Wikipedia, as I have never seen a professor or a book free of error or bias or viewpoint. "Peer-reviewed" is just another name for censorship and conformity and I believe it is one of the greatest impediments to paradigm change in many professions, most notably medicine. Blogs and wikis sidestep the conventional wisdom, and thus offer hope for the future. We need to end an educational system based on the needs of the 18th century. And I am just as convinced English grammar and usage will soon be changing, as well. So I looked for blogs with a similar nutcase viewpoint.
Here is an interesting one with a radical bent, and a recent blog on critical thinking, the one skill that even technology can't alter:
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2009/08/06/critical-thinking-2/
I also like http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/, which is focused on the philosophical issues that technology is presenting to formal education, rather on the new tools themselves (for which I have Todd and Ruth et al).
And I like this site mostly because of the off-the wall items and applications that actually look fun, instead of highbrow: http://mmorley.blogspot.com/
This last one isn't a blog per se, but it has some of the only clinically-proven programs for changing brains and allowing for greater learning, particularly for those with ADD, etc.:
http://www.positscience.com/

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