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From Critical Voter – NH Primary

January 25, 2016 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Critical Thinking

Just got back from the frigid Granite state with a dozen fewer copies of Critical Voter, having had the chance to put books into the hands of people at most of the campaign headquarters visited on Saturday. Responses to the gift ranged from polite indifference, to warm thanks and offers of snacks, to promises that […]

The New Hampshire Primary

January 22, 2016 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Critical Thinking, Uncategorized

As mentioned last time, I’ll be cross-posting election/critical thinking related stories from Critical Voter here at Degree of Freedom, and going the other way with education-related stories posted here.  So read on regarding an upcoming delivery project to the candidates. Two boxes of pre-release print copies of Critical Voter arrived on my doorstep yesterday, so […]

Critical Voter – The Book

January 19, 2016 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Critical Thinking

  I’ve always preferred blogging about a project as its happening, vs. blogging for blogging sake. Which is why new postings dried up early last year when I had pretty much said my piece on what could be learned from the One Year BA MOOC experience. But a new project looms (or, to be more […]

Welcome New York Times Readers

March 20, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

For any visitors not linking here from the New York Times site, the Times Education section ran a terrific piece this morning on what it means to be an independent learner in an age of information abundance (or overload). The piece uses my One Year BA project as an example of a structured approach to education […]

Announcements

March 2, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project

A couple of announcements for friends, fans and followers. First, that book event I mentioned last time taking place tomorrow evening at Harvard’s new Ed Portal is going to be livestreamed at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/8714559/events/3839785.  So if you can’t make it to Alston to listen, talk and maybe pick up a book, tune in to the stream […]

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