Thanks for your interest. I have a database table filled from RSS files over time. When you need all titles…
Thanks for sharing this. I really need to do something like it. On your contents page, did you enter all…
Thank you Jenny for the link. Thank you Bruno and Lisa for the interesting connections which I had not thought…
Apologies on my comment: I meant the *left* brain is focused on dates, while the *right* on contexualization!
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Figure it out
It is a wonderful book about understanding. There are rich, comprehensive, very plausible descriptions of how we understand by associations, with external representations, and through interactions.
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Science Denial
Book by Sinatra & Hofer. A different picture of science. Continue reading
Teaching Machines
It is an important book, because without such a deep insight into the history of teacherless instruction, today’s new teaching machines are probably doomed to repeat some crucial errors over again. And it gets the reader inspired to ask themselves.
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The Extended Mind
Offload the material and see it anew — great advice for using the “Extended Mind”.
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Annotation. 2021
My latest read is Annotation, a great book by Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia. MIT Press 2021. And here are some of the things I learned: 1. More on Social Annotation: “We can think of an information infrastructure as part … Continue reading
Reading in the Digital Age
The new book by @gerhardlauer challenges “the gloomy song” “of the end of the book and the end of reading” (p. 222). Particularly, I liked the recurring emphasis on “the cultural technique of mastering the switching” (p. 51) between the … Continue reading
Agile book sprint
This great book on Perspectives of Agility (in German) was written over the weekend in an agile book sprint by a group in Karlsruhe, and I am following their invitation to ask ‘agile’ questions. So: How can agile methods cater … Continue reading
Myths, semi-myths etc.
I bought Clark Quinn’s new book about training myths, semi-myths and misconceptions, and I can whole-heartedly recommend this exciting, in-depth, clinical and precise work. Continue reading
Unflattening
The gem of Sousanis’ book “Unflattening” was that it does a great job explaining why the right hemisphere mode (“all-at-once”) lives from relations: Basically, it argues that the eye is “dancing and darting”, i.e. by its saccadic motion (palpation by means of the gaze) it captures only small fragments at a time, and it is our imagination that needs to combine them into vision.
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My favorite sections in Downes’ new book
Downesβ new book on connective knowledge tells a lot about knowledge that you cannot read anywhere else. My recommendations for a rhizomatic journey through the book include 5 sections as starting points.
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Thanks! I do love having a system.