Our Capacity for Error

Our capacity for error provides hope for grappling with real-world problems.

What’s It All About, Gramps?

I seem to be writing a series of posts.

First Glimpses

What might the encounter be like when we first glimpse something fundamental?

On the Right Track

If something fundamental is obscured, how do you recognize it?

Notions on How to Proceed

To kludge is to learn is to discover that which is fundamental but now obscured.

Sabbatical

Announcing an extended sabbatical to pursue a Don Quixote quest.

Embedded Learning

Introducing two new contenders as examples of tomorrow’s university.

Energy Constrainted Learning: Part 6

This post is part 6 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
 
Reflections: Releases the inner me. “Mind deserves the same care and nurturing we give to other natural resources. Today this is far from the case. The world’s people lie woefully fallow.”

Energy Constrained Learning: Part 5

This post is part 5 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
 
Implications for Online Learning: Plays with limits. “In an age of scarcity industrialism, we need something simple, cheap, small-scale, decentralized, and modular for easy scalability. “

Energy Constrained Learning: Part 4

This post is part 4 of 6 in a serialization of Energy Constrained Learning.
 
Scenario of Scarcity Industrialism: Explores a feasible future. “[John Michael] Greer’s work provides a rich resource for thinking critically about tomorrow. It’s a thoughtful and well-written depiction of the near future that challenges readers to consider what happens to industrial societies that, in a mere 300 years, managed to blow away nearly one-half of the recoverable fossil fuels that it took nature half a billion years to make.”