{"id":3402,"date":"2014-11-13T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:25:35","slug":"the-conundrum-of-education-in-the-age-of-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/?p=3402","title":{"rendered":"The Conundrum of Education in the Age of Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There are arguably more serious problems globally today culturally, politically, and especially environmentally than ever in history that necessitate the study of epistemology or theory of knowledge, individually and collectively, and of the role of creativity and imagination.\u00a0 Our epistemic crises center on culture wars and the Technopolis in the realms of free speech protection, higher education goals, climate knowledge, environmental and species protection, the power of historical records, future of democracies, and extinction itself.<\/p>\n

My upcoming Creative Commons anthology\/textbook, with a first chapter on epistemology or theory of knowledge, examines the very possibility of knowledge and reality in the midst of all of this with rampant misinformation and disinformation, echo chambers etc.\u00a0 One of the clearest ways to understand critical thinking is as applied epistemology.<\/p>\n

This carefully curated anthology is of interest and of value to students and others who want to first consider the nature of good thinking\/critical thinking that is not fully explained in schools and colleges, and also begin to envision a future of possibilities in the natural world.\u00a0 While designed with students in mind, this book is also inspiring for those who want to be a part of the global movement to craft a New Story of an Ecological Civilization, via their communities, in the ocean of information, for the common good.<\/p>\n

Taking the reality of ignorance (Agnotology) into account as part of our nature, this process of discovery is a tall order for anyone because of domination,\u00a0 overconsumption, waste, and narrow and exclusionary definitions of knowledge and the knowable, and the shunting aside of other important ways of knowing and being.\u00a0 But the pace of change in society and the increasing dominance of the Technopolis makes this effort a necessity. This is the realm of both epistemology and ontology and the search for truth and vital belief systems to create an infosphere of hope and love, inspired by indigenous knowledge-making over thousands of years, where humans are not separated from nature.<\/p>\n

It is the realm of higher education as a keystone for our future, and about how to encourage and build deep learning about complex systems. The following is an early first draft of one of the chapters. EducationPhilosophyWalkerBrief2<\/a><\/p>\n

Also in Merlot: The Conundrum of Education\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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There are arguably more serious problems globally today culturally, politically, and especially environmentally than ever in history that necessitate the study of epistemology or theory of knowledge, individually and collectively, and of the role of creativity and imagination.\u00a0 Our epistemic crises center on culture wars and the Technopolis in the realms of free speech protection, … Continue reading The Conundrum of Education in the Age of Distraction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jH4N-SS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28333,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/28333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}