"And then the firework shot shot across the way into someone's apartment!" "What! Where were you?" "Oh, this was something on Instagram." Hearing this, the bottom dropped out of the anecdote for me. While this firework incident a was no less real for having been captured on video and posted to social media, it felt … Continue reading On sharing stuff you saw on the Internet
Tag: Neil Postman
On the content of the lesson
Yesterday, I mentioned one takeaway from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Here is another, though really it is a nod toward John Dewey: John Dewey wrote in Experience and Education, "Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time. Collateral learning … Continue reading On the content of the lesson
On the information-action ratio
Perhaps my most important takeaway from Neil Portman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is the information-action ratio: How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, … Continue reading On the information-action ratio
Taylor Coe 