Information will breathe in and out of us…
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 29th, 2009
Check out In Bb 2.0! Its a beautiful mix of videos can be played simultaneously based around the spoken word Information by Daniel Donahoo (the full text is on the YouTube page):
We will process away at nothing and understand everything. We will think of a word and the information will slip in, not through our [...]
Serious play
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 24th, 2009
This blog has previously posted on using lego for teaching. In this video, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults - and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age:
I post links to a lot [...]
Happy birthday
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 22nd, 2009
The LTC blog turns 1 today! If you can forgive the self-indulgence, here are some highlights from the past year (in chronological order):
What should MQ’s future learning and teaching spaces look like? - These photos make it look like not much has changed since the 70s.
How do students picture Macquarie? - Some fantastic images from [...]
Tonight on Insight, SBS, 7.30pm: Students at risk
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 21st, 2009
What’s behind the attacks on Indian students? Are the attacks on overseas students racially based?
Watch the preview.
Recent attacks on Indian students in particular has focused attention on the broader experiences of international students who have enrolled in Australian universities, TAFE’s and private colleges. Stories of exploitation, poor accommodation and sub-standard colleges reveal a disturbing [...]
Reinventing liberal arts education
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 14th, 2009
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education:
And in a related TED video, Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders:
Celebrating willful ignorance
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 8th, 2009
Following Davin Heckman’s complaint that students consider reading for class “laughable” and publicly “celebrate” their “willful ignorance” (see the Post-Corporate Uni post), this Times Higher Education article suggests academics might be going the same way. John Corner writes:
As a professional activity, reading is beginning to look a bit suspect unless it is in preparation for [...]
University World News
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 1st, 2009
Check out the University World News special global edition released today. Of particular interested are these two reports:
The teaching-research nexus
In a perfect world there would be perfect research universities delivering perfect high quality courses, and the more ground-breaking research undertaken by academics the better their teaching would become, with new knowledge passed on to students. [...]
Universities, rites of passage and youth today
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 30th, 2009
Does this statement ring true for you?
The real purpose of universities is not to flatter the tastes of those who arrive there, but to present them with a rite of passage into something better.
How about when it is placed in its context - an article in The American Spectator [...]
Macquarie then and now
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 29th, 2009
Check out these photos of Macquarie in the 1970s:
Check out a more recent picture and photos from the 60s. Also worth a look is this series of PDFs on the history of Macquarie.
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 4th, 2009
From Michael Wesch of Digital Ethnography, The Machine is Us/ing Us is worth another look:
From May 2009, there is a “dance mix” (reminiscent of Dance Your PhD):