Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
"Between 2010 and 2019, UK universities paid more than £1bn in journal subscriptions and other publishing charges. More than 90% of these fees went to the big five commercial publishers (UCL and Manchester shelled out over £4m each). It’s worth remembering that the...
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The third and final of a three post series. My oldest daughter gave the following birthday present: some money and six cup cakes delivered to the door Our family has been very good at...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. For a treat I had my first formal "conversation" with 'generative artificial intelligence' (G.I.A.). It was weird as the G.I.A. reported clearer ideas, clearer intelligence, than the human beings who have decision-making powers...
"In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not...
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a...
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