Obesity – Kester Brewin

Apple 9 this Weds | The Price We Pay for Technology is Alienation

Nov 15, 2010

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in Apple, Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Technology

Apple – the series of talks trying to think more deeply about technology – is back this Weds with the 9th event (7:30pm, The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road). The title is ‘Digital Obesity’ and will be a panel discussion with Simon Jenkins of ShipOfFools, Gavin O’Carrol from the Digital Health Service and Vaux’s own…

The Problem with Digital Culture [2] : Information Obesity

Oct 11, 2010

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KB

in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Technology

I posted some thoughts on Friday about the problem of information coming too quickly for us to reflectively process it – and turn information into useful knowledge and wisdom. The analogy I used there was of a conveyor belt. When it runs slowly the packets come off at a speed that allows us to sort…

Why #Education Isn’t Educating | Teaching, Not Socialisation

Nov 16, 2009

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I don’t mention a great deal here about my work as a teacher in London, but a book review in The Observer this weekend made me want to post something. The thrust of Frank Furedi’s book Why Education Isn’t Educating is well caught in a paragraph in the review, in which Rafael Behr notes: There…

Tag: Obesity

Apple 9 this Weds | The Price We Pay for Technology is Alienation

The Problem with Digital Culture [2] : Information Obesity

Why #Education Isn’t Educating | Teaching, Not Socialisation