By Cathy Davidson. According to Steven Pinker in his recent New Republic article about"The Trouble with Harvard," the most read article in the history of that magazine is a previous article also mostly about the trouble with Harvard, William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.” Like all the things we most covet and scorn, Harvard is the object of our national fascination, even obsession. More...
Reflections on community in #rhizo14 – more questions than answers
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reflections on community in #rhizo14 – more questions than answers
Frances Bell, Francesbell's Blog, 2014/09/09
A lot of people continue to value community in courses without, I think, comprehending what community is. It's really hard to understand the nature of a community from within. "How can we know about all of the flowers that bloomed? And some of the ones that failed to thrive or died?" Most people, I think, participate in community from their own frame of reference. More...