Who’s ready for the weekend? As always, ProfHacker gives you five links plus a video:
- Do you know who’s an awesome teacher? If you ask faculty, *everyone* is: K. Patricia Cross (1977), drawing on her survey of self-report data from college teachers, found that “an amazing 94 percent rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68 percent rank themselves in the top quarter in teaching performance” (p. 10).
- Why thrift stores? Learning to get over an all too American addiction to instant gratification isn’t a bad thing either; it’s a happy side effect of thrift shopping.
- In the future, everyone will rate everyone else: In a world where individuals emerge as important sources of information, products and services, people will need a way to break through the limited knowledge they’ll have on any one person. Look for online reputations to emerge as a way to fill that gap.
- Cathy Davidson explains why “Information Age Without Humanities = Industrial Age Without the Steam Engine“: The humanities are the most important tool we have for understanding, with any kind of historical perspective and critical depth, all of the new arrangements of our world, precisely because those new arrangements of our world are rooted in an associational, interactive, qualitative humanistic concept of mind and society, not in a machinic, quantitative, linear, hardwired, fixed, or even measurable computational model.
- Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin about pushing past mediocrity.
Over Big Think, David Shenk talks about the brain, intelligence, and development:
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