Why do policies and systems created by intelligent, well-intentioned people sometimes produce consequences that are worse than the problems they were designed to solve? That question immediately caught my attention because it points to one of the most difficult realities of complex problem-solving: good intentions do not guarantee good results. A solution may appear logicalContinue reading “When Good Intentions Create Bad Outcomes”
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Who Should Be Responsible for Policing Deepfakes?
As artificial intelligence makes manipulated video, audio, and images easier to create, who should be responsible for deciding what is authentic, misleading, or dangerous? Should the federal government regulate synthetic media? Should technology companies identify and remove it? Or should individuals be expected to evaluate the credibility of what they see and hear for themselves?Continue reading “Who Should Be Responsible for Policing Deepfakes?”
The Problem of Socrates
While we were given multiple resources to draw from, Nietzsches’ “The Problem of Socrates“, which is a piece from his book titled Twilight of the Idols, is what I would like to focus on for this discussion. I find it surprising that I have not read any of his work prior to this. I have heard ofContinue reading “The Problem of Socrates”
How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?
What happens when students can step inside a learning experience instead of only reading about it? Extended reality, which includes virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and related immersive technologies, offers a way to make abstract or complex concepts more visible, interactive, and memorable. In higher education, this could be especially valuable in courses whereContinue reading “How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?”
What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?
While reading The Book of Problems, one short passage by Federico Mayor stood out to me because of how directly it addresses the relationship between learning, technology, reflection, and personal knowledge. The methodology regarding learning to know and to do is widely developed. Teachers all around the world have a treasure of experience and bestContinue reading “What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?”
Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?
During my undergraduate years at the University of Central Arkansas, where I minored in philosophy, I encountered a wide range of readings that challenged how I understood society, power, and human behavior. Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology was one of the works that stayed with me, much like Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. IContinue reading “Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?”
Paradigms
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of a paradigm as a dominant framework that shapes how a field understands problems, evaluates evidence, and determines what counts as legitimate knowledge. Newtonian mechanics is one of the clearest examples. It guided scientific thought for centuries before Einstein’s theory of relativity revealed itsContinue reading “Paradigms”
How Do We Know What We Know?
What does it really mean to know something, and how do human beings turn experience, observation, reasoning, and interaction into knowledge? I would normally begin by defining the word knowledge to create a foundation for the discussion. In this case, though, I want to begin with my own understanding. To know something means that IContinue reading “How Do We Know What We Know?”
Leadership Under Pressure: A Systems View of Darkest Hour
How do relationships, institutions, and historical forces shape a leader’s decisions during a national crisis? I included this project in The Learning Curve because it demonstrates how systems thinking can be used to analyze leadership, communication, and decision-making. Rather than viewing Winston Churchill’s choices as the actions of one individual, the accompanying Miro systemigram mapsContinue reading “Leadership Under Pressure: A Systems View of Darkest Hour”
The Logic of Failure
How can we better prepare people to solve complex and ill-structured problems when information is incomplete, conditions are changing, and no single solution is clearly correct? Helping people solve complex and ill-structured problems requires more than giving them a fixed procedure. These problems often involve incomplete information, changing conditions, competing goals, and variables that influenceContinue reading “The Logic of Failure”