26 September 2012

If you post it on Facebook, tag us so the Ministry of Interior will find it will be the subtitle of a short story I write one day about all the fantastic and quirky couples that I know in cross-nationality relationships.  It will end on some epic inquiry into how citizenship has been forever changed by the advent of the internet and one's virtual history.


At the moment:  I'm AFK for Inside Out in DC, among other exciting things. 

18 September 2012

On-going Bibliography


Neuroanthropology Resources
Foundation for Psychocultural Research http://www.thefpr.org/
First official PhD in Neuroanthropology?
http://neuroanthropology.net/conference/
"Social medicine"
Drug Use: Group Habits and Individual Learning
http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/14/katherine-mackinnon-capuchins-and-people/
http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/neuroanth10/Neuroanthropology.html
Discussants Quinn, Sapolski and Strauss...

People Teaching Neuroanthropology
USF  - Daniel Lende
Northwestern University -  Ryan Brown
Northwestern University - Rebecca Seligman
University of Chicago-  Rachel Brezis 
University of Tulsa - Peter Stromberg
Notre Dame -Agustin Fuentes
Saint Andrews - Christina Toren
Miami University in Ohio - Cameron Hay
Purdue - Hal Odden
Macquarie University - Greg Downey


Keywords:  ONLINE PEDAGOGY, THEORY OF CHANGE, EDUCATION REFORM, EDUCATION REVOLUTION, MOOC, COURSERA, ONLINE LEARNING

Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng's  "Log On and Learn: The Promise of Access in Online Education"
Pamela Fox's "Creating Our Coursera Starter Culture"
Claudia Ehrenstein's Does the Internet Make You Dumb?
Steven Smith's The World Wide U
Eliza Collin's Professors Rethink Teaching Methods
Keven Carey's The MOOC-Led Meritocracy
NYT Op-Ed The Trouble With Online Education
Eli Okun's Mixed Reactions



Scope of Inquiry / Can't it be free and valuable?

The moment is approaching when I need to decide if I'm interested in exploring Coursera "in and of itself" as my virtual guide, Tom Boellstorff, did in sl, or in relation to civil space and reality-making.  My desire, of course, is the latter but today's modest perusal of civil society sources presents more than my mind can adequately ponder in the hours not consumed by rl























Rather than elaborate, I offer a few thought provoking links and an interesting facebook conversation I came upon  around 'the value' of a 'Coursera certification':