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Philos-L- Correction: 3rd CFP Evaluative Perception Conference
- Revolution of the Body: Psychogeography
- 3rd Call for Papers: Evaluative Perception - Aesthetic, Ethical, and Normative
- CONF: Schelling (Bonn)
- FEP Philosophy Stand Up - No Joke, Tuesday 25 June, 6.30 – 8pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
- CFP: Philosophia Africana
- CFP: Workshop on the Motivations for Naive Realism
- SMLC 2013: Online registration is now open - International Workshop "Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions" (University of Bergamo, Bergamo, 12-14.09.213)
- Article request: Scientific Understanding
- Mind Boggler: A Free Philosophy App for iPhone/iPad
- IET @ OU
- ED TECHIE
- Doug Clows’s Blog
- MOTILL
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Philosophical Pedagogy: Wittgenstein
Philosophical pedagogy is unusual in that the learner is being encouraged by the teacher to think for themselves and develop critical skills rather than absorb a certain concept or datum. Here’s a report on Wittgenstein’s teaching style that I read … Continue reading
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Tagged education, pedagogy, philosophy, reflection, wittgenstein
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Open Access in Argentina
In this interview, Dr. Colman-Lerner (Faculty of Engineering, University of La Plata, Argentina) suggests that awareness of OER is largely limited to higher education researchers who are also currently teaching. He suggests that scientific journals are facing a subscription crisis which could … Continue reading
OER Blogs
A number of OER blogs are aggregated at http://oerblogs.org/. They are divided up into RSS feeds according to subject: Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Course Ware (OCW), Intellectual Property and the Open Access Movement.
The Ampersand
via Web Designer Depot. I don’t know exactly when it was that I first understood what the ampersand was called, but it was probably later than it should have been. Not that it matters much, since we all use the … Continue reading
Enlightened Trial and Error
Bjoern Hartmann, of the Stanford HCI Group, gives an overview of different prototyping tools he has built with collaborators to address two research questions. First, how can tools enable a wider range of designers to create functional prototypes of ubiquitous … Continue reading
Copyright tips for bloggers
Five easy rules for bloggers To avoid being accused of stealing someone else’s content, follow these simple rules: 1. You may not use a work simply because it does not have a copyright notice The mere absence of a copyright … Continue reading