Key ideas – a list in progress
Camouflaged ! Originally uploaded by Kamala L See the picture? Can you help her pick out the handful of items that she really needs to keep? What are the key ideas in the field you are teaching? If you are teaching American history or culture or literature, what are the key ideas that you think [...]
Learning from history
Image via Wikipedia Does history repeat itself? Can we learn anything from ancient civilizations, especially the ones that declined and fell? Nah! Thanks to scribd, I’m reading Ayn Rand-contemporary, Isabel Paterson’s “The God of the Machine”, which begins with a brief history of the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Romans, and asks, for instance, why [...]
Meltdown in Japanese – just in time for the election?
Image via Wikipedia “Meltdown”, historian Thomas Woods‘s book on the origins and causes of the present financial crisis, based on Austrian Economics Business Cycle Theory, has been translated into Japanese, and can be bought on Amazon Japan. Woods’ own summary/review can be read on the Lew Rockwell website. Just in time for the Japanese elections. [...]
Reading Rand can be good for business
John Allison retired at the end of last year as CEO of BB&T: he had recently shepherded it through the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression, leaving it in fairly good shape. He’s certainly seen as a success where many others in his field have failed miserably as of late…“We didn’t do negative-amortization mortgages,” [...]
Phun with Philosophy
(mouse-tip to Recent Reflection for the link) Hurry! YouTube may not last much longer! And speaking of youtube and philosophy, check out this clever one on the history of Western philosophy, set to a catchy tune. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with [...]
Literacy vs digital literacy = fundamental vs derivative?
The Literacy Test for Immigrants Originally uploaded by beautifully_broken762 A fellow blogger and teacher of history in the UK, Doug Belshaw, is working on his Ed.D. and his thesis is on digital literacy. I’m sceptical about “digital literacy” being touted as some completely new kind of animal, unrelated to “literacy”, and after groping for the [...]
