nature of knowledge

  • Brevity’s burden: The executive summary trap in global health

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    It was James Gleick who noted in his book “Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything” the societal shift towards valuing speed over depth: “We have become a quick-reflexed, multitasking, channel-flipping, fast-forwarding species. We don’t completely understand it, and we’re not altogether happy about it.” In global health, there’s a growing tendency to demand ever-shorter…

    Brevity’s burden The executive summary trap in global health
  • A few of my favorite excerpts from George Siemens’s Knowing Knowledge (2006)

    My own practice (and no doubt yours) has been shaped by many different learning theorists. George Siemens, for me, stands out articulating what I felt but did not know how to express about the changing nature of knowledge in the Digital Age. Below I’ve compiled a few of my favorite excerpts from his book Knowing Knowledge, published in 2006,…

    George Siemens at TEDxNYED (3 June 2010)