Archives for September 2009
Core knowledge
Yesterday’s OLDaily questions “core knowledge”, and I am trying to guess the tacit discomfort behind this misguided idea: Blinkered specialists vs. broad knowledge, shallow generalists vs. deep knowledge, indirect side effects vs. measurable memorization of facts, absurd amount of useless facts vs. exemplary drill-down on diverse topics. Read more …
Tomorrow’s mind mapping
I had the chance to submit my latest dreams about tomorrow’s mindmapping. And on the other hand, I was disillusioned about its deployment in today’s academia. Read more…
