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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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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 one find a basic concern for integrating and creating…
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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 in 2021.” … “Covid-19 intensified a [declining enrolment] trend, underway for…
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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 twelve-hour drive from Glen Innes to Gumly Gumly, just outside of Wagga Wagga; no,…
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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 for the 2023 paper, the AHA acceptance docket (email),…
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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 judgements are to be reported, nearly all of the schools Bélanger outlined would support a view of learning…
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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 intelligence. Whether such a dystopian society…
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Dear Nick…
Dear Nick, I am writing a short letter after skimming your Sky News piece, “Peter Dutton is steering the Voice ‘No’ campaign to victory over cancel culture by refusing to play the role of a troglodyte conservative”. I make only a sincere plea to stop fuelling an unintelligible culture-history war and where I have…
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Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education [Teaching Document Copy] “Quora advertises with the slogan ‘The best answer to any question’, ‘Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users’ answers’” (Anon 2015, ‘quora’).”…
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Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s intervention on the Labor Government’s decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia’s defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional discussions. ANU’s Mark Kenny is reported in The New York Times as he explained the essential problem: …
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After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia
The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The Big Banks will not support…