Tag: Paul Kennedy

Your Attention Please 9/10

Donna FryLeave a Comment on Your Attention Please 9/10Attention, Brodie Fenton, Buzzfeed, Craig Silverman, Paul Kennedy, post-truth, Sue Gardner

We love our phones. App developers create spaces online that we can’t resist.  They want us to “Stay, play and pay with our attention or personal data”. (Paul Kennedy, Ideas podcast) The adoption of the smart phone was one of the most massive and ubiquitous technological uptakes in our history.  When we go from laptop to […]

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Afraid to be Wrong

Donna FryLeave a Comment on Afraid to be WrongDemocracy, Harry Collins, ideas, innovation, open, ossemooc, Paul Kennedy, Public Education, school, Schooling, science

Over the past few days, mostly while shovelling snow, I have been listening to one particular podcast from the CBC Ideas Program: Knowledge and Democracy.  The program examines the interaction between science and society, looking at the “position” of the discipline “science” in a democracy. It is of particular interest to me because of our […]

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