Open response to Tim O’reilly’s keynote speech at Web2.0 Expo New York.
The keynote speaking today given by Tim O’reilly is very inspiring. Thank him for giving that kind of speech. In response to him, I want to talk about my thinking on these issues. I don’t have all the answers. I have some, which hopefully [...]
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Open response to Tim O’reilly
Posted in Elearning, Grassroots, Natural Learning, Open Project, unschooling on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Posted in Elearning, Essay, John Taylor Gatto, Liberal Arts, What is Learning, unschooling on February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking after reading Dumbing us down.
No one can do a good job on education without reading Mr. Gatto’s books. Reading his book, you will have a feeling that education is the root of nearly all problems of our society. The education is to understand other social issues on a very deep level.
Brief recap [...]
Web Brain
Posted in Cooperation, Elearning, Essay, Featured Essays, Projects on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here I want to talk a little bit about Web Brain, which will lead the next generation of WWW.
Internet and WWW is all about global participation and cooperation. It provides a mechanism for people around the world to participate, and then CS works behind the scene to leverage the participation into global cooperation. In web1.0, [...]
Comments on “ARISTOTLE” (THE KNOWLEDGE WEB)
Posted in Elearning on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the paper. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis04/hillis04_index.html
I agree with the general direction this paper points out. However, there are several important points I have to point out.
First of all, this paper was written in 2000 (very impressive to write something like this in 2000). Now in 2006, as a new wave of innovation surges in web2.0 , [...]
The school system
Posted in Elearning, What is Learning, unschooling on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The school system
The school system is a very delicately designed system. There are many forces behind its coming into being. Some are conscious efforts, some are not. Some are good intentions. Some are really not. A lot are due to historical limitations.
In the early America, there is no formal schooling. Americans visited [...]
How to learn in real life
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This essay intends to be a seed to inspire discussions on the issues and methods of learning in real life, also how web2 can help us. So far, it is by no means a complete list of how to lean in real life.
For a moment, let’s forget about schools. Free your thoughts. Let’s think about [...]
Time to unschool
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Imagine that you can learn finance in one year, achieving better understanding and skills of finance than people going through many years of college to obtain a bachelor or master degree. Imagine you can build up a very good liberal arts background in one or two years, beating most of the students going to top [...]
How can we learn freely? Can we commercialize learning/education?
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 12, 2006 | 3 Comments »
School is not for learning. It is for education, for teaching, which is to make you unable to learn. School is just an institution to enslave people’s minds. School uses tests to screw up certain kinds of people, who are not good at passing tests, make them stay as manual labor, and screw up some [...]
Elearning FAQ (to be continued)
Posted in Elearning, Essay, Random Thoughts, unschooling on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What is elearning?
A: So far elearning is mostly used to refer to online courseware, most of which just moved traditional course material to the web. For most of people in the academic field, elearning is just something to fanaticize teaching. So all of their work involves how to teach the course material better. However, I [...]
Elearning is already here!!!
Posted in Elearning, Random Thoughts, unschooling on March 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I mean the true learning (online, offline) enabled by elearning. This place will just be a place to talk, disscuss, advocate learning every possible thing without school in ways we call real learning. (To be written)
Want to know earlier? Emal me.
Learning Essay–Business, Liberal Arts and Tech
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Basically what this essay is trying to say is that the way school divides learning by major is insane, because everything is connected and you can not just learn one thing by itself, and also because there are so many things that cannot fit into those few categories of majors. So school is to [...]
Learning Essay–Learning and No-Learning
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning, unschooling on July 26, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Basically what this essay is trying to say is that isolating people for many years in an artificial environment for the purpose of learning is insane, because learning and no-learning (activities) is intertwined. The school, which isolates people from real world for many years, is designed to enslave your mind, making it unable [...]
Talk About Knowledge Discovery
Posted in Elearning, Essay, What is Learning on February 18, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
This is a talk I gave more than two year ago.
Before I tell you about the theory of knowledge discovery, I think it is better for me to first tell you why it is needed, why I spend so much time on it and elearning and why I think it is important.
There are probably two [...]
