Pas moi

Pas moi
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Creativity

Having a public employee sitting at his desk and thinking, rather than producing some kind of meausurable output, may look bad from an accountability point of view, but is the only way known to humans to creative solutions and high quality.

Read this fine sentence in a presentation of an OECD Innovative Service Delivery Workshop.

Knowledge should be shared

ewan.mcintosh:

Seth's assumption is the same as mine, and the underlying pretext of the eduBuzz platform: that teachers are paid to share their knowledge, not just with those students in front of them but with anyone in their learning communities, and sharing with this community will make us all better teachers and learners.

and

Arnie's got the right end of the wrong stick: it's not a question of changing the media through which the textbook is published, it's about changing the very notion of the textbook.

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Lanceerinstallatie

Lanceerinstallatie
Originally uploaded by Textz

De vraag is evenwel of de straal krachtig genoeg zal zijn, en hoe de Mentos ingebracht zal worden in een horizontaal liggende fles. Maar soit: mijn zoon maakt Ikea-handleidingen!

Fat

Luisteren naar Goose, Enter Shikari en Soulwax heeft me aangezet ook enige teringherrie te overwegen. De getrouwen zullen zeggen "t is weer van dattem", maar ik ben persoonlijk zeer verheugd met de bas en de compressie. Een mens moet iéts he.
Te beluisteren op http://www.myspace.com/textz . "Fat" heet het. (Op die songtitelgenerator is het nog steeds wachten.)

Ton

Ton
Originally uploaded by stevenn

Naturalist or Engineer?

Twitter is one more symptom of the culture war being fought right now between society's Engineers — smart, extroverted, optimistic people who believe technology can solve everything — and its Naturalists, equally smart people who tend to side with the private mind, in the sad, lonely beauty of its isolation.....Most Naturalists don't want to maintain control over the media or its message, as some Engineers and their marketing monkeys insist. But they do write to stay unavailable, to keep the world at bay until they have figured out what they think and what is true.

Zie http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/2009/04/the-new-culture-war.html