Comments on: Thinking about learning. And SOPA and PIPA and stuff like that http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/01/14/thinking-about-learning-and-sopa-and-pipa-and-stuff-like-that/ a blog about information Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The IT Skeptic http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/01/14/thinking-about-learning-and-sopa-and-pipa-and-stuff-like-that/comment-page-1/#comment-808656 The IT Skeptic Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:21:16 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2832#comment-808656 SOPA is not the answer. Nor is open piracy of other people’s invention.
There’s a middle ground – let’s not lose it to digital theft

]]> By: Introducing the Grand Prize Winner for “The Salesforce of Things” http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/01/14/thinking-about-learning-and-sopa-and-pipa-and-stuff-like-that/comment-page-1/#comment-805953 Introducing the Grand Prize Winner for “The Salesforce of Things” Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:57:52 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2832#comment-805953 [...] You should also check out our Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami’s post that puts this event into a much broader context. [...]

]]> By: Maureen http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/01/14/thinking-about-learning-and-sopa-and-pipa-and-stuff-like-that/comment-page-1/#comment-805444 Maureen Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:22:53 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2832#comment-805444 Compelling discussion. I consider the definitive human trait to be ingenuity: our ability to think our way out of any corner we’ve painted ourselves into (so far!)

Education, scaled up and systematised, fails to properly value ingenuity (which is harder to grade “justly”) to the degree that ingenious children’s ideas are suppressed, and even penalised. Changing this is a big challenge! It is why I love teaching writing to young people.

]]> By: clive boulton http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/01/14/thinking-about-learning-and-sopa-and-pipa-and-stuff-like-that/comment-page-1/#comment-804717 clive boulton Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:42:53 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=2832#comment-804717 July 1945… to comfort George Hogg until he died, the boys sang nursery rhymes he had taught them.

His headstone is engraved with lines from his favourite poem:

“ And life is colour and warmth and light;
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase. ”

—Julian Grenfell

SOPA your pic http://www.blackoutsopa.org/

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