The 9/11 anniversary reminds us, among all the other things, of the questions of government surveillance that have arisen in the last decade, some related
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
From Musical Consonance to Styles of Thought
An article published in Physical Review Letters, reported on in Science News, describes a mathematical model of how neurons can distinguish consonant sounds (say, a
Sociology of Information in the New York Times
BUSINESS DAY The Beauty Contest That’s Shaking Wall St. By ROBERT J. SHILLER Published: September 3, 2011 Why all the sharp swings in the stock
Bloomberg Contra Notification Norms
Consider a recent NYT article by Mosi Secret and Michael Barbaro about the controversy over New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s failure to inform the public
What Will "Assessment 2.0" Look Like? A Proposal
The most serious flaw in assessment as now practiced is the premise that it is something that teachers are not interested in, do not want
Information Control and Politics: Not Just "Over There"
Cell Reception Cut In San Francisco To Hinder Protest by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 13, 2011 Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations
Innoeduvation 