Education & Tech: News for Educators

• Can blogging be academically valuable?

  Seven reasons for thinking it might be.

• Are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford really public universities?

  Princeton University, for example, receives $105,000 in taxpayer benefits for each of its students, compared to the $12,000 in appropriations that go to New Jersey’s public university, Rutgers.

• You’re More Ignorant Than You Think You Are

  David Dunning proposes that "we are all confident idiots." (He’s pretty sure about that.) "In many areas of life," Dunning writes, "incompetent people do not recognize — scratch that, cannot recognize — just how incompetent they are."

• Milton Ramirez on Twitter: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso"

  Not for long... #ai https://t.co/dxH33gtfbg

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