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Knowledge Transfer: old wine in new bottles or how many contentious statements can I make in one blog post?

Punning Wine By Mike Knell (includes edited content from a comment I made to Stephen Downes blog post) I have been watching a ‘debate’ unfold over the weekend with increasing mystification. I even posted a couple of comments but I didn’t really feel that there was much idea exchange taking place. If you want to…

Looking backwards, looking forwards

I am on a bit of a “Back to the future” theme at the moment and so when I volunteered to interview for the current purposed campaign, I decide to do a bit looking back as well as forward. The instructions were: For our next campaign we want to you to spread the Purpos/ed message…

The purpose of education

Education, 1890, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios What is the purpose of education? Well, of course that raises more questions: What is education? I refer you to the stained glass window above see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_%28Chittenden_Memorial_Window or my interpretation that it is an activity involving serious angels and though which light can shine. Whose purpose…