Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Education
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From Broadcast to Narrowcast: Finding Signal in the Noise
The explosion of tailored communications and personal preferences can trap any one of us in a self-reinforcing echo chamber.
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Understanding and Explaining: The Feynman Technique
If you cannot recreate an idea from its elementary components, you do not really understand it — knowing something is not the same as knowing the name of something.
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Missing Talent, Missing Opportunities, and Losing Ground
Why is it culturally acceptable in the U.S. to say, “I’m bad at math and science” when few would willingly confess to semi-literacy by saying “I don’t read very well.”
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Academia: Who We Are and Why It Matters
Society has vouchsafed in us an extraordinary privilege and sacred trust, as scholarly stewards and explorers.
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Higher Education in the 21st Century
Public research universities are in the business of helping people. This is especially true in times of accelerating and disruptive change.
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My Balm in Gilead
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in so many ways – commerce and trade, personal livelihoods and economic vitality, family and social interactions, health and wellness (obviously), mobility and travel, and education, to name just a few. This global pandemic has also exposed deep social inequities in new ways, convolved with political disarray and often dysfunctional…