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KnowledgeContext: February 2008
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Monday, February 18, 2008. I just watched a PBS Frontline. Why do we use technology? In this case, for health. Mental conditions once diagnosed only rarely in children are now identified in millions of US children. And we have technology- drugs- to treat them. Few systems are as complex as our bodies and few experiments are less controlled than medicating mental conditions. Reported on a four-year-old dying. They do add that. The worried parents did not appear to consider diet, nor did the doctors ask...
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KnowledgeContext: March 2008
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Monday, March 31, 2008. Pedestrians do not run across streets in. Cars and scooters do not sto. And yet, I saw no one hit and no car swerve. I heard no brakes squeal. H might fool you into believing the rules there are the same as in. Red, yellow, and green lights for cars a. Ear as they do here. Red and green silhouettes of. Edestrians shine on crosswalks as they do here. But switch to video and you quickly note that cars and scooters ignore. Right turns are at full s. Not understanding the rules that ke.
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KnowledgeContext: April 2006
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Friday, April 28, 2006. Spinning Wool and Playing a Bell. I just returned from a week in Philadelphia, and of course I noticed technology. Nora spins wool in the Independence Visitor Center, modeling the Colonial way of life. You can see in the photo that I’m transfixed by the spinning wheel (the smaller person not transfixed is Seika, daughter of KnowledgeContext director Trevor Oelschig). All that I know of spinning wheels comes from the movie. I could buy the wool product cheap in a store. The pressur...
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Los Angeles Future Salon: 2007 Meetings
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2007 Los Angeles Future Salons. Join us at our Sunday, February 4th Salon:. Theme: Whole Life Management on the Web — Are You In? Update: This month we got three spiffy signboards installed around UCLA. They even have waterproof plastic holders. For our monthly meeting flyers (an LAFS innovation in the cutthroat signboard marketplace). This should really help us recruit more future-oriented students to our meetings in 2007. Thanks to Marlon Rojas. For the artistic wizardry and to Dave Harris. Http:/ www&...
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ASF: Governance, Change Leaders, and Workgroups
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ASF Governance, Change Leaders, and Workgroups. Our Governance, Advisory, and Production Communities. 149; Educational/Consulting Advisors. 149; Technology Advisors. 149; Technology and Innovation. 149; Business, Economics, and Development. 149; Social, Political, Education, Envir., Health, Etc. If you'd like to contribute to our nonprofit by joining one of the following groups. Executives are responsible for management and corporate structure. Treasurer; Producer, Fusion. Treasurer; Producer, Fusion.
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April Column for San Juan Star (un-edited) | The Breeze From San Juan
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The Breeze From San Juan. Come on in and take a walk around my brain, but take your shoes off! Why you might want to write my name in on the ballot! April Column for San Juan Star (un-edited). March 8, 2011. Coloring Outside of the Lines. Kindergarten. Have you ever wondered where that word came from? Kinder- German for child, garten – German for garden. Garden of Children. There’s a nice image. But where did it come from? Why is it attached to our classes for 5 year olds? I found in John Taylor Gatto...
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KnowledgeContext: March 2007
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007. The press, the coverage of the war, and the buildup to the war, was almost exclusively focused on the power of our weaponry and the might of our military. Not only were the graphics quite consciously designed to look like a video game, but the message was that not only are our weapons powerful, but we as a people are powerfulThat mythic narrative of war is something that always boosts ratings and sells newspapers. It’s war as boy’s adventure. Excerpted from pages 520 and 532.
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KnowledgeContext: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007. Foresight Nanotech Institute's 2007 Unconference. Included sessions to brainstorm nanotechnology literacy. I facilitated a diverse group in discussing what patterns in nanotechnology. I described the approach I take to teaching nanotechnology to. Precocious high school students at UC Santa Cruz's COSMOS program every summer. It's similar to the approach that KnowledgeContext uses to teach middle school students how to understand and evaluate technology, usi. Thinking about tec...
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KnowledgeContext: August 2007
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007. Putting Rustlike Crystals on ICE. Every year I spend four fabulous weeks teaching precocious high school students about nanotechnology. The COSMOS program at the University of California. At Santa Cruz has classes on physics, chemistry, astronomy, math puzzles, marine biology, designing and creating video games, robotics, and nanotechnology. Similar programs run at UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Posted by Miguel F. Aznar at 10:53 AM. Thinking about technology. unders...
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KnowledgeContext: November 2006
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Thursday, November 23, 2006. Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, bringing to mind how much we have to be grateful for. Freedom and liberty ranks high for me, particularly since I wrote about how limited those are in North Korea. How do we evaluate it? The government of North Korea evaluates the radios in terms of their power. By promoting dissenting views, this technology is a threat to their control. What are its costs and benefits? How do we change it? How does it change us? How does it change?
