What determines the quality of digital learning materials?

The Dutch article "What determines the quality of digital learning materials?" is now officially translated in English . I asked Kennisnet if I could use my own English translation of the article on our institute and then they decided to make an official translation( see my name in introduction ) . I believe this article sums up all pedagical background information related to digital learning materials.

http://www.kennisnet.nl/fileadmin/contentelementen/kennisnet/1_deze_map_gebruiken_voor_bestanden/4w/KNS_4W_1-2012_Reints_FINAL_web.pdf

My list of useful iPhone Apps

GoodReader®
Price: 3,99 €
Rated 4+
GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010!
The "PDF Reflow"-function is great to reflow text so that it fits on your iPhone screen

GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.

Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers:
• sync with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, FTP or SFTP server
• sync entire folders or individual files separately

GoodReader not only supports massive PDF and TXT files, but also handles the most popular file types:
• MS Office - .doc, .ppt., .xls
• iWork ’08/’09
• HTML and Safari webarchives
• High resolution images
• Even audio and video!
 
imo instant messenger
Price: Free
Rated 4+
With imo instant messenger, it’s easy to stay in touch with friends on your existing IM accounts. imo currently supports:
Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Hyves, VKontakte, Myspace, and Steam.
- No need to create a new account with imo
- Group messaging and photo sharing
- Voice IMs turn your iPhone into a walkie-talkie
- Push notifications sent for one week after you close the app
- Concurrent sessions on different devices
- Send pictures and video clips
- Searchable chat history

*



Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Named Apple's iPad App of the year and one of TIME's Top 50 Innovations, Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends and much more.

Fill Flipboard with the things you like to read, from niche blogs to publications like Rolling Stone and Lonely Planet, and use Instapaper or Read It Later to save articles to read later. Flipboard creates a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you.

In addition to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you can flip through your newsfeeds and timelines from Google Reader, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren on Flipboard.


 
GPS Navigation 2 - skobbler (US/CAN)
Price: $0.99 + All maps$9.99
Rated 4+
★ BRAND-NEW: The next skobbler generation including optional offline mode upgrade
★ True voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation at an unbelievable price
★ One of the most successful navigation apps in the App Store with more than 1.5 million users worldwide
★ Germany’s best-selling navigation app for years


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
Top In-App Purchases
You need these In-App Purchasable Maps if you donot want to use GPRS data connection (Fe. abroad)

North America$5.99
All maps$9.99
Wallace & Gromit$3.99
Europe$5.99
Italy$3.99
France$3.99
South America$5.99
Germany$3.99
UK$3.99
Ireland$3.99



Agenda Calendar
Price: 0,79 €
Rated 4+
Has WEEK - view that is not available in standard Calendar















Fast Keyboard • Universal Text Editor
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Fast Keyboard is a text editor that gives you a special keyboard and amazingly high productivity.

Plus ★ Dropbox synchronization ★ Undo/redo buttons ★ Facebook ★ Search ★ Precise selection ★ Tumblr ★ Twitter ★ SMS ★ File tags ★ Key statistics ★ Word/line/character counting

On top of the standard iOS keyboard, you will get two rows of additional keys, including numbers, symbols, unicode symbols, frequently used words, and even email/article templates.

Now you don't need to constantly switch between the letter keyboard and the number keyboard. And you can type with fancy symbols: π,☆,÷,♥,♬ and so on.

Transfer text to -Email, Facebook or Twitter with one touch. Copy text to be able to Paste the text to any other App.




Kindle
Price: Free
Rated 4+
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.

Touch a word for: Dictionary Lookup or Annotate (Highlicht, Comment)
Kindle can read documents of the following formats: .mobi .prc .azw .txt .pdf
ePub-books (epub format), PDF and Word documents can be converted on a PC with the free Calibre software. Converting PDF and Word can be read as-is, but converting gives you the benefits of text-reflow and dictionary-lookup.
Amazon Kindle is also available for PC / Laptop. On PocketPC, WIndows Mobile you can use MobiReader ( .mobi format only )



Dropbox
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

After downloading any file in the Dropbox App, Dropbox can show many documents with its internal reader, but you can also choose to open it in another app that can handle the file format (Fe. for PDF GoodReader or Amazon Kindle)




Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience
Price: 7,99 € (1 Database included Fe. Dutch wikipedia)
Rated 4+
Top In-App Purchases (Fe. if you want wikipedia in a second or multiple languages)
1 Database Token0,79 €
5 Database Tokens2,99 €
12 Database Tokens7,99 €


Wiki Offline delivers flexibility and joy for the Wikipedia experience. The full text of all Wikipedia articles are stored to your iPhone/iPad/iPod. You will literally hold the world's knowledge in the palm of your hands. No more worrying about slow internet connections, overage bandwidth charges, or traveling to areas without internet, because with Wiki Offline, Wikipedia will be there for you when you need it.
Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.

★ Available in English, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish, Thai, Polish, French, Hungarian, Farsi, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, Danish, and Slovak!



 
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Price: Free
Rated 4+
America's most useful and respected dictionary.
-->No need to be Online when searching.
In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the app offers voice search – to let you look up a word without having to spell it – along with an integrated thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, Favorites, and more. A great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

The app is free, and supported by ads.

Features:
* Voice Search
* Integrated Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms
* Example Sentences
* Audio Pronunciations
* Word of the Day
* Favorites
* Reader View - lets you hide navigation buttons to see text in full screen
* Recent History - lets you keep track of the words you've looked up


 

NotesF1 To Do
Price: 3,99 €
Rated 4+
True Notes® To Do synchronization without any third party software.
This is the first true Lotus® Notes® To Do synchronization app. The app uses Lotus® Notes® Traveler server and therefore the user can start to synchronize all Notes® To Do’s (tasks) without any
It has the same Category view as in Lotus Notes
Ask UNESCO-IHE IT for the " Task Management in Lotus Notes and Mobile" tutorial.





Mendeley - Reference Manager (Lite)
Price: Free
Rated 4+

Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone syncs seamlessly with your Mendeley research collection. This means that you can now carry your personal digital library with you wherever you go. The iPhone app keeps your documents organized in just the same way as your online collection, with easy access to all your collections, recently added items and favorites. Combined with search over titles and abstracts you can get to the paper you need quickly.

READ YOUR PAPERS OFFLINE
If there is a paper you want to check out later, you can download it over wifi straight to your iPhone from your online library. It will remain available to read offline at any time, making it easy for you to read what you want, when you want.


SHARE CITATIONS
If there is a paper that you just need to let your colleagues know about right now, you can share the citation to that paper from within the app via email. No more copying and pasting citations, it all gets taken care of at the touch of a button.


KEEP UP TO DATE WITH SHARED COLLECTIONS
Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone also syncs shared collections. Shared collections take the pain out of creating a bibliography with collaborators. As soon as you sync your iPhone collection you will see any new documents that your collaborators have added to your shared collections!


To use the Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone you need to have an account with Mendeley Web (mendeley.com), and you need to add to your library either through Mendeley Web or via Mendeley Desktop.


http://www.mendeley.com/
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
Reference Manager
Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.

Read and Annotate
Open PDFs and capture your thoughts through sticky notes and highlights.

Add and Organize
Import and organize PDFs from your computer, EndNote™, Papers or Zotero.

Collaborate
Connect with colleagues and securely share your papers, notes and annotations.

Backup, Sync and Mobile
Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.

Network and Discover
Discover papers, people and public groups.

All my BLOG's up until now

For easier navigation: All my BLOG's up until now

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2011/07/rss-feeds-for-fun-research-and.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2011/07/e-reader-stuff-my-experience-with.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2011/01/peter-sloterdijk-erosion-of-school.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/professor-john-biggs-robert-and-susan.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/learning-is-looking-forward-to-oneself.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/model-of-professional-competence-model.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/twitter-is-interesting.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/online-educa-2010-impresions.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/darwikinism.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2010/12/university-degree-with-expiration-date.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2009/11/visit-to-de-onderwijsdagen-2009-samen.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2009/11/visit-to-educause-best-thinking-in.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-makes-electronic-whiteboard.html

http://whglas.blogspot.com/2008/11/welcome.html

RSS feeds for Fun, Research and Education

 

 

RSS feeds are: Short News messages

                                                           (with links to the complete articles)

·

From Sources/Subjects selected by you

	http://www.springerlink.com/content/0039-7857?sortorder=asc&export=rss http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/117990183 http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/rss/ahead.xml http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/117982766

That can be read Offline or Online

 

 

--> On a PC or Laptop while:

                                                                                o Working

 

 

-->On a Tablet / iPhone / Android / PocketPC while:

o Waiting (Hospital / Meetings / Hotel)

o Travelling (Traffic jam / Public transport)

 

 

 

Examples of RSS readers on Mobile Devices

 

How to start:

On your PC or Laptop, go to http://reader.google.com and create a login (if you do not already have a Google account) and start collecting and reading your RSS-feeds here.

On iPhone or Android phone, download and install Pulse RSS reader http://technology-headlines.com/2010/11/16/1832/ . With Pulse RSS reader you can choose from the RSS feeds you have collected in http://reader.google.com .

Finding RSS Feeds

 

1. On a web site:

Look for an orange button such as, or

2. Search Google -Fe. "hydrology RSS"

3. Search within Google Reader for feeds other users are reading.

 

Why should you use RSS?

(from http://libguides.mit.edu/rss )

RSS feeds and email alerts can help you find out about new literature in your field, such as:

• table of contents from new issues of your favorite journal
• new articles on your specific research topic
• new books in your field in the MIT Libraries
• new patents in specific technology areas of interest to you
• news in science, technology, business, health, etc. from Google, New York Times, BBC, etc.

 

Links about RSS:

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/how/rss.htm

http://libguides.mit.edu/rss

http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=30947&sid=229231

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/whatisrss.html

 

Links to RSS feeds:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss

http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Service/RSS.htm

http://www.water.org.uk/home/rss

 

Links to RSS feeds collected by IEE http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/whatisrss.html

• GooRSS — Google + RSS by Google.Com
• Google's RSS feeds — search general categories
• RSS Watcher — searches RSS Feeds for your keywords
• RSS Feed Finder — keyword search
• New Scientist RSS Feeds — latest developments in science and technology
• Nooked Search — keyword search and category listings
• Moreover Technologies — search by categories
• NewsIsFree — huge library, search by category
• Yahoo's RSS feeds — search by category
• ProQuest — Scroll down to find the list of RSS feeds. This is a good site for administrators.

Here are a few ENGINEERING-related RSS news feeds:

• Engineer Village 2 — Provides weekly RSS feeds of search queries. This site seems to require a fee after a free-trial period.
• New York Times — Science and Technology feeds are very general in nature.
• Physics Today — click the icon on the page
• Science Magazine — select a category then click on the icon of your choice
• U.S. Government RSS Library — do not click on the XML icon, drill down until you have a *.rss or *.xml web page
• Institute of Physics News — general Physics info and news

E-Reader stuff

My experience with reading ebooks is that in the years you change devices many times. I started reading on a PALM and switched from that to a HTC 9600 with PocketPC to Nokia phone and now to Apple iPhone. Of course I also want to read ebooks from my laptop also every now and then.
During all this years I have collected many ebooks and I used many e-readers.Ebooks come in different formats and different devices have different e-readers. I found out that most software ebook readers do not have dictionary lookup and do not allow for adding Notes.

I now find it most convenient to standardize as much as possible to one good reader, because this saves you the cumbersome converting of ebooks and gives you full functionality like dictionary lookup and adding Notes.

Mobipocket reader / Amazon Kindle is such a very good FREE ebook-reader that is available on many devices and has functionality like:

-Dictionary lookup by just clicking a word.
-Highlighting words/ parts of text
-Adding Notes
-Adding Bookmarks


It can be installed on many devices, from Nokia phones till PocketPC .


























On Mac, iPhone and iPad, Windows Phone and Android you can only use "Amazon Kindle software" and NOT the "Mobipocket reader".




















And it of course works on the Dedicated Kindle Device






















Moving ebooks to another device

You can move books (.prc or .azw or .mobi extension) together with the Notes (.mbp file) easily from Mobipocket reader to Amazon Kindle software by placing them in the correct folder.


Amazon Kindle software

C:\Users\....\Documents\My Kindle Content\

--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well
--> File extension .prc can be renamed to .mobi or .azw


Mobipocket Reader on Windows PC

C:\Users\....\Documents\My eBooks\

--> File extensions .mobi or .azw have to be renamed to .prc
--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well

Mobipocket Reader on Windows Mobile or Pocket PC

In \ (root) of device or Storage card

--> File extensions .mobi or .azw have to be renamed to .prc
--> .mbp has to be copied also if you want to transfer your Annotations and Bookmarks as well

Dictionary Lookup functionality
With Dictionary functionality you can just click on a word to lookup its meaning in a dictionary.
On Amazon Kindle software a dictionary is automatically downloaded when you want to use Lookup-functionality. On Mobipocket Reader you have to install your dictionaries yourself if you want Lookup-functionality to work. You have to open the dictionary one time to make it functional.
You can download a free English dictionary here:
http://membres.multimania.fr/salimeroweb/Mobipocket_English.zip


Converting documents for reading on Mobipocket reader / Amazon kindle
For converting existing documents to mobireader and Amazon Kindle you have to install the "Mobipocket Creator"-software on your PC. It can convert Word and HTML .


Links:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle

http://www.mobipocket.com

Free books for mobipocket reader:
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://www.manybooks.net

Peter Sloterdijk: The erosion of school

The chapter below is a translation of the Chapter "Maligne Wiederholungen II: Die Erosion der Schule" (pages 679-685), from the book: Peter Sloterdijk, "Du musst dein Leben ändern : Über Anthropotechnik " by Peter Sloterdijk. http://www.amazon.de/mu%C3%9Ft-dein-Leben-%C3%A4ndern-Anthropotechnik/dp/3518419951
Translation by Wim Glas (with help of translate.google.com)

Malignant repeats II: The erosion of school As the disintegration of the culture of practice and the consciousness of discipline in the education of the second half of the 20th Century is concerned, it is the latest chapter in the long history of antagonistic cooperation between the modern state and the modern school. I have shown how the Liaison and the contradiction between state semantics and school semantics, starting at least from the 17th Century Europe, elicited chronic tensions between the differentiating >>subsystems<<. If the traditional state notion to the school, to provide useful citizens, is compiled, by the school, into an order to train autonomous individuals, a permanent friction is inevitable - both as creative dysfunctioning, as well as source of chronic disappointments. In summary it may be stated: The bourgeois civilization emerged from the surplus of the school humanism on top of the state's educational mission. One can almost speak of a felix causa of the older civic educational system: It gave its talented pupils infinitely more cultural themes than they would ever need in their civilian functions. In this context, it could make sense to mention that some samples of the greatest spiritual excess phenomena of recent intellectual history, Johann Gottlieb Fichte as the new Finder of the theory of alienation and Friedrich Nietzsche as Modernizer of the Christian super-human thought, visited the same school namely the Thuringian Pforta in Naumburg, Fichte I774-I78O Nietzsche 1858-1864 - which in its time was one of the most rigorous high schools in Germany. It would not be necessary to explain, that the Thuringian Pforta has exceeded its educational contract by delivering pupils like Hölderlin, Hegel and Schelling. When asked what the student Karl Marx, graduation year of 1835, owes to his formative years in high school of Trier, the former Jesuit College Trinity, the revolution historiography rather responded with reserved information.
In the recent phase of school history, the creative Maladaption of the classical schools in many places turned into a malignant Maladaption that may be called modern, as far as they result from an epoch-typical dysfunctioning of the role model functions and the related decline of the practice-consciousness. In its follow-up, school approaches to a point at which it implodes twice, producing neither citizens nor personalities.

It steers towards a condition that is beyond conformism and beyond excess production, neglecting all aspects of direct utility and creation of indirect consequences.
Year after year, she releases more and more disoriented cohorts of students, of which increasingly clear can be seen adapting to a maladaptive errant school system without the individual teachers and students having the slightest guilt. Both are united in an oecumenism of disorientation, to which one can barely find the historical equivalent, at least if you do not want to point to the long night of education between the collapse of the Roman school in the 5th century and the re-emergence of a Christian-humanist school culture in the wake of Alcuin Carolingian reforms in the 8th century.
To diagnose the malaise it would be needed to show in detail, how the current school participates in the process, that is called the differentiation of the subsystems by Niklas Luhmann. Differentiation is the establishment of strictly self-referential structures within a subsystem. F.e. a "field of practice"-in evolutionary terms: the institutionalization of Selfishness.
It was Luhmann's ingenious pulse, to show how the performance growth-of sub-systems of modern "society", whether it comes to politics, economics, law, science, art, church, sports, education or health, lies in the steady increase of their self-reference , up into their settling in the state of complete self-referential unity. In moral theoretical terms, this implies the forming of Selfishness at the level of the subsystems into a regional virtue. For the "society" Critique it follows: that in the place of protesting weakly against the cynicism of Power, systemic enlightenment is put in place, ie clarification of the Enlightenment.

The systemically induced reversal of values requires the de-diabolicallizing of the self preference, the way one can observe in the writings of European moralists between 17 and 19 Century. Therefore, it is not surprising to run into a neutralized perversion in the center of each subsystem. Not only the offensive deviation of the "wicked person "of the moral norm can be seen as perverted, the openness of the confession, that the slave system is ultimately caused by oneself and not by possible mandates in the context of something bigger, can be seen as even more perverse. Therefore there is a close link between cynicism and perversion - the cynicism always in the form of enlightened false consciousness, tells the truth about the wrong thing, in so far as it is helping the un-morality to complete honest openness. The earliest breakthrough in the complete bald honesty - the Aletheia of the systems - arrived in the field of politics, as Machiavelli disclosed the autonomy of political action and recommended -long perceived as scandalous- emancipation of the general morality.
This breakthrough was followed by the economic theory after the introduction of the means of production in the form of machines in the late 18 Century. The first few liberals like Mandeville and Adam Smith had already understood: First payback, then morale. The industrial system recognized -without covering up- that its mission is to bring its operators profits in order to service their loans, to make new investments and being able to carry labor costs. In short: "Social effects" can, system internally, only be considered via side-effect calculations.
The argument that the economy is most profitable for his contemporaries, if it is focused on what it does best, namely produce profits, is - convincingly true - but does it with an added cloudy plausibility, because of the fact that, with the evident success of one side, the opposite side will also get a growing evidence: namely that the Selfishness of the economic system passes over too many other areas of interest, whether these could be described as those of the whole or not.
The other subsystems, are by nature much more forced to occult their Selfishness and to justify themselves by using vague holistic rhetoric. This does not change anything to their actual training for selfish system. Each of them produces so-called experts to explain the surrounding world why things have to run as they are known to be running. They have to explain to a skeptical audience why the all too visible self-interest of the subsystem is outweighed by the benefit for the total. After all, nor can one imagine a medical system that expresses openly that it serves primarily its self-reproduction. Also from churches we will not hear that their only objective was the preservation of the churches, although for people of the church being honest should be a virtue. Even less can be expected that one day a school system will be perverse enough to confess, its only task was somehow, to keep itself going, to bring its profiteering people, namely teachers and administrators, in the enjoyment of having a safe job and to bring solid privileges.
Where confessions are not to be expected, diagnosis will have to help further. Diagnoses transfer perversions into structural problems. The problem of today's education system is evident in the fact that it not only cannot comply to the state contract to deliver citizens because the definition of the objective, given the demands of today's professional world, has become blurred. This is articulated even more clearly in the letting go of its humanistic and artistic excess, to devote itself to the more or less dumbfounded operation of pseudo science-based pedagogical routines. Because the school during the last decades, did not muster it's since the 17th the Century consistently proven courage to dysfunctional behavior, she turned into an empty selfish system, which is exclusively oriented to the standards of its own holding up. It produces teachers who only remember of teachers, subjects, reminiscent only of subjects, students reminiscent only of students.
In addition, school becomes "anti-authoritarian" in an inferior way, without ceasing to exercise formal authority. Because the law of learning by imitation can not be switched off, school runs the risk of making its own unwillingness to be exemplary, into the example that is repeated in the next generations. The consequence of this is that in the second, third generation, we will almost exclusively have teachers who will only be celebrating the self-referentiality of the lessons. Self-referential is the teaching that takes place because it is the nature of the system to let it take place. With the differentiation of the school system a state is entered in which the school has only single main subject, which is called "school". This corresponds to the single external Learning goal: the completion of the school(study). Students leaving such schools, have learned all long thirteen years, to not take the teachers as role models. By adapting to the system one has learned a learning that does not care for internalization of the matter, one has, almost irreversibly, practiced to go through educational material without the practicing of that material. One has mastered the habit of a learning-as-if, that is ,in fact, learning things for one's own defense, in the inherent right conviction, that the goal of all education/pedagogy is: the ability to adapt to the prevailing forms of education. In view of these phenomena, radical school thinkers have raised the demand for the dissolution of the entire system, be it with Ivan Illich in the form of the postulate for " de-schooling the society", be it by contemporary education/pedagogy reformers, by proposing to dismantle the ingrained system of subjects and to convert the school during the formative years in an open training camp for the polyvalent intelligence of young people. Such demands match with the great upheaval of the book-culture to the Internet-culture that took place in the last two decades. In practice, this would lead to a kind of setting free (in the wild) of intelligence that could be described as controlled jungle education/pedagogy. In this context, findings are remarkable, that high-training effects are observed in the intelligent handling of information garbage with adolescents that spend much time playing computer games and have a lot of Junk communications. Steven B. Johnson summed up these trends under a title, that makes parents and systems theorist sit up: Everything bad is good for you. From this, one can deduct the thesis that almost any form of strong enculturation is better than the playing along in a maladaptive selfish system that only brings about parodies of former education. The problem of the false teachers, that I have explained in philosophical context with Sartre ,comes back at the systemic level as the problem of the false schools.

Robert and Susan

The great "Robert and Susan" video from the "Teaching for Quality Learning at University"-book by Professor John Biggs is now available in different formats and in several languages:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~brabrand/short-film/contents.html

Professor John Biggs has great views on Higher Education and is also known for his knowledge on applying "Active Learning"-techniques with (mixed) groups of International Students.

From the website:
IN 62 WORDS...
"Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" is a 19-minute award-winning short-film about teaching at university and higher-level educational institutions. It is based on the "Constructive Alignment" theory developed by Prof. John Biggs. The film delivers a foundation for understanding what a teacher needs to do in order to make sure all types of students actually learn what the teacher intends.