An Academic roundup: “Connected Learning” from Henry Jenkins/ 55 free Philosophy Courses/ Netwar 2.0 and more…

Henry Jenkins: Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age This weekend, I am attending the Third Digital Media and Learning Conference, hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, as part of their efforts to help build a field which takes what we have learned about young people’s informal learning, often through the more … Read more

“Landmarks in the critical study of secularism- “Internal Barriers to Online Expansion …………

Landmarks in the critical study of secularism from The Immanent Frame by Matthew Scherer In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science Association conference to discuss two seminal texts in a recently emerging field of study, which could tentatively be called the critical … Read more

A video: This is How We Think: Learning in Public After the Paradigm Shift

http://vimeo.com/12755237 In “This is How We Think,” Richard E. Miller and Paul D. Hammond explore how education must change now that we live in a world where information abounds, where reading and research have moved from the library to the laptop, and where the act of learning itself is now making its way out of … Read more