Archive for February, 2011
Dr. William Abraham – TEDxSMU 2011 Salon
Note: This talk was given in February 2011 as a follow up to Dr. Abraham’s 2009 TEDxSMU talk at a small TEDxSMU Salon. Dr. Abraham was born in Northern Ireland in 1947. He is currently the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at SMU. Educated at Portora Royal School, [...]
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Then and Now: The Industrial Model of Education, TechTicker, April 24, 2009 “…the fact the same classroom dynamic remains largely intact to this day is a travesty for learning and is a clear indication of how firmly rooted the industrial model has become in education.” Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math, New York Times, March [...]
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What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly, 2010 “Verbalizing visceral feelings about technology, whether attraction or repulsion, Kelly explores the ‘technium,’ his term for the globalized, interconnected stage of technological development. Arguing that the processes creating the technium are akin to those of biological evolution, Kelly devotes the opening sections of his exposition to that analogy, maintaining [...]
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Mind Body Connection Medicine/Healing National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine- NIH Ayurvedic medicine (also called Ayurveda) is one of the world’s oldest medical systems. It originated in India and has evolved there over thousands of years. In the United States, Ayurvedic medicine is considered complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—more specifically, a CAM whole medical [...]
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