Verbatim » brave new world http://shanta.edublogs.org a commonplace blog of quotations about learning and learning design Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 school’s out http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:48:31 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/ No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks

Alice Cooper, title song of School’s Out, 1972.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/02/16/schools-out/feed/ 0 the curious sort of life http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/06/the-curious-sort-of-life/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/06/the-curious-sort-of-life/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:29:54 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/06/the-curious-sort-of-life/ ‘It was much pleasanter at home,’ thought poor Alice, ‘when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole – and yet – and yet – it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!’

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1992 (Folio Society; originally 1865), p. 29.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/06/the-curious-sort-of-life/feed/ 0 the computer will blow up the school http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/04/the-computer-will-blow-up-the-school/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/04/the-computer-will-blow-up-the-school/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:44:25 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/04/the-computer-will-blow-up-the-school/ There won’t be schools in the future … I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as something where there are classes, teachers running exams, people structured in groups by age, following a curriculum all of that. The whole system is based on a set of structural concepts that are incompatible with the presence of the computer … But this will happen only in communities of children who have access to computers on a sufficient scale

Seymour Papert, Trying to Predict the Future, Popular Computing, October 1984, p. 38.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/04/the-computer-will-blow-up-the-school/feed/ 0 soft power http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/08/13/soft-power/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2005/08/13/soft-power/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:07:55 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/?p=14 The democratization of technology has made NGOs more powerful and terrorism more lethal. The United States must adjust its mental framework to this new landscape. Our post-9/11 focus has been on the use of hard power – the top board – when the problems we face stem from transnational issues on the bottom board. One metric to assess progress in the current sruggle against terrorism is whether the number of terrorists being killed with hard power is greater than the number Osama bin laden is recruiting with his soft power. From this point of view, things do not look good.
Joseph Nye, Soft Power and Higher Education, 2005, explaining the rising influence of soft power due to globalisation and the communication revolution – the term he uses to describe the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion.

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