Events
Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow
The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning. Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students.
We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it's becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of its old paper medium. Indeed, the basic strategies of knowledge that emerged in the West addressed a basic problem: skulls don't scale. But the Net does. Now networked knowledge is taking on the properties of its new medium: never being settled, including disagreement within itself, and becoming not a set of stopping points but a web of temptations. Networked knowledge, for all its strengths, has its own set of problems.
Meet the artist and enjoy refreshments. All are welcome. Naoe Suzuki, Senior Program Coordinator for the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the Ethics Center, exhibits her most recent drawings and works on paper. Suzuki's psychologically complex drawings reference imagery from circus animals and water to medical abnormalities and scientific technology. For more information, click here. Questions? Contact ethics
brandeis [dot] edu.
Thinking about Peace Corps? Have questions about the application process? Want to pick up some literature? Interested in speaking with someone who has been there? Come have a cup of coffee and a one-on-one chat with Kristin Sulewski, Harvard Graduate Student and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Benin, 2008-2010) Kristin will be at Peets Coffee and Tea from 2:30pm-5:30pm ready to answer your questions and provide you with information about the Peace Corps. This event is very informal, no appointment necessary, just drop in when it’s convenient for you! Just look for the Peace Corps Sign at Kristin's Table.
Join Massachusetts Peace Action for our annual meeting as we review our progress in 2011 and chart the path for our work in 2012. We’ll elect new board members, discuss plans for work towards a nuclear-free world, and learn organizing skills in workshops on the 2012 elections and on passing tow...n resolutions. Neta Crawford, co-director of Brown University’s Cost of War Project, will talk about the continuing tragedy of US militarism and the lives and dollars we are losing in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Judith LeBlanc, National Organizer for Peace Action, will update us on Peace Action’s national campaign to Move the Money from the military to human needs and discuss building coalitions with human service, labor, and community groups.
