On Empowerment In our technologically advanced society, where “give me now” is the predominant mindset, children do not understand the value of patience, dedication and the antiquity involved in getting where we are as a nation. History is often a glazed eye subject for them while not understanding the importance in lessons learned. To youth, anything theyContinue reading “The 9 Commandments”
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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?”
What Does It Mean to Know?
Who we are is revealed not only through what we say about ourselves, but through how we act. Oets Kolk Bouwsma once wrote that a person’s life shows what that person truly thinks of themselves. He made a similar observation about Socrates, noting that Socrates both spoke highly and acted highly, while others spoke highlyContinue reading “What Does It Mean to Know?”
Alignment is All You Need
In a 2016 interview, Charles Fadel, the Center for Curriculum Redesign founder, stated “from the times of Socrates and Confucius, it has been obvious that what makes people successful in life is not only what they know and how skillfully they use their knowledge, but also how they behave and engage in the world. InContinue reading “Alignment is All You Need”
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?”
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”