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WHAT GOOGLE EARTH DOESN'T SHOW YOU
Independent Weekly, May 21 -- Duke sociologist Gary Gereffi, Duke
technology consultant Shawn Miller and Duke historian Trudi Abel are part
of a movement of alternative mapmakers who are seeking to revolutionize our
understanding of the world.  http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A258374
 

 

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A258374

Instead of seeing "teaching" as the polar opposite of "research," we should be thinking of our classrooms as the place to test out all of the skills necessary to translate research into scholarship. Isaac de Waal says teaching is what makes us distinctively human. Why not consider that complex, interactive act as the theoretical grounding for all communication?

How does learning art, music, or dance impact our cognitive abilities?  

Here is a reposting from my TechPsych blog:

This essay appears in the May 2007 issue of CT [Cyber Technology] Watch, vol 3, no. 3, edited by David Theo Goldberg and Kevin Franklin, "Socializing Cyberinfrastructure: Networking the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences."

http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/05/data-mining-collaboration-and-inst