Hi Birdie, and representatives in the Queensland Government and the Heritage Council, I am gobsmacked too. I am here in this reply to formally put a public complaint and accusation to the Queensland Government of 'playing' cognitive games in its bureaucracy....
Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
FULLER VIEW FOR TELLING THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN EVANGELICAL HISTORY
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, "Telling Our Story", Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW,...
Communication, Critical Thinking, Education, and Research: A Society Captured in the ‘PR’ Outlook
When I researched for an image, for this blog, I found this one below, one of three images, in my paid account provided for my business, which came up with the three results with the research phrase, "capture public relations". This image is an excellent illustration...
ANZACmania, Australia, and America
“...What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 period. And this is a real problem. Possibly only in Australia, among the countries with mass immigration, does...
Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education
“Still, universities continue to churn out a supply of PhDs far exceeding the academic market’s demand for them. About 70 percent of all professors are not in tenure-track positions. Only 27 percent of those who received history PhDs in 2017 were in tenure-track jobs...
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History Article: Downloadable PDF Version In the early morning, before dawn broke, I dreamed of how to explain my philosophy and history (historiography). It came as my mind recovered from the slightly-over...
2023-04-05 Letter to Mayor. Re. Questions on 2023-2025 Commemorations
Adrian Schrinner Brisbane Lord Mayor Brisbane City Council GPO Box 1434 Brisbane Qld 4001 5 April 2023 Dear Lord Mayor, I will present a paper at the 50th AHA conference (4-6 July), following on from my 2021 AHA presentation. I have attached the abstract...
Understanding ‘Machine Learning’ from the Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge: What is Learning?
Bélanger (2011:14) outlines the different directions that Dewey and Thorndyke, and others, came into the teaching, learning, and assessment theories. These differences are important to understand why machine learning is not learning. In learning tasks where personable...
Machine Learning is not Learning: The Human Choice in A.I.
Machine Learning is not Learning. Image Source: Marktoonist (Tom Fish Burne). Licenced No. 27175, 28 March 2023, US$100 Do not laugh. Imagine a society where there is no desire to learn beyond egoism and all work is reduced to the push of a button or a key without...