Sharmila Pixy Ferris (William Patterson University) got a very warm reception for her presentation on teaching and learning with the "net generation," given at the the 2009 Lilly East Conference. She graciously allowed TP101 access to her slides.john.immerwahr@villanova.edu
Wellington College has employed a thinker-in-residence and philosopher-in-residence to lead the programme to "put discovery back at the heart of education". ...
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Don't agree...but it's an interesting thought worth considering
Over at the Feminist Philosophers blog, someone asked: "If there were one or two things you could change about academia, what would it be?" A heartening answer (from my point of view at least) given by several commenters: grading!Some choice comments and observations below the fold:
Interesting article (via sympoze) on philosophy in schools:Philosophy lessons are being introduced in dozens of primary schools in a bid to get more children reading and open their minds...
What happens when you give about 2,000 college students and their teachers Apple iPhones and iPod Touches and tell them "Go mobile, go digital?" No one knows. But that's what Abilene Christian University is trying to find out with its Mobile Learning project.(author unknown)11447250523987962524
From a very interesting post at Overcoming Bias:In the ordinary practice of fitting a curve to a set of data points, the more noise one expects in the data, the simpler a curve one fits to that data. Similarly, when fitting moral principles to the data of our moral intuitions, the more noise we expect in those intuitions, the simpler a set of principles we should use to fit those intuitions....
... that credited the high employment rate of Huanggang Normal University in central China's Hubei Province to its "job-oriented education philosophy". ...
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I take it that the modal ontological argument (for instance, in Plantinga’s version) requires a principle at least as strong as
B: If possibly necessarily P, then P,
where the modal operators are read in the metaphysical (or “broadly logical”) sense. That is, the argument from “It’s possible that a maximally great being exists” to “A maximally great being exists” sooner or later requires B. Indeed, Plantinga’s version seems to invoke the stronger S5 even if all it needs is B.
