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Author Archives: Jeff Bloom
Responsibility & Relationships: From You and Me to Society
This blog post was originally posted on March 9, 2016. It is 8.5 years later, and it’s even more relevant than it was then. Over the past eight months or so, my wife and I have been renting a house … Continue reading
Posted in connections-disconnections, culture, politics, relationships, social issues
Tagged congress, Gregory Bateson, responsibility, The Turtles
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The Inappropriate and Problematic Uses of Technology
This posting is directed mostly at AI or Artificial Intelligence, but the AI acronym may more appropriately stand for Artificial Ineptness or Artificial Ignorance. Although I am going to outline briefly a few of the big issues, I do think … Continue reading
Posted in learning and cognition, technology
Tagged AI, Control, issues, learning, trust
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What Needs to be Taught? — Part I: A History
Originally published on September 21, 2021 by Jeff Bloom During my career as an educator, which started off as a leap off of a cliff into a raging fire, I became increasingly concerned with the issue of “what to teach.” … Continue reading
Posted in community, complexity, corporatization, learning and cognition, relationships, schooling, teaching
Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, authoritarianism, Cognition, Control, epistemology, Gregory Bateson, knowledge, Politiics, Standards, Testing
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I am reading this at dawn...the sky outside still night. My body strangely woken and this article draws me to…