Clay Shirky
Person on 4 sites
Clay Shirky is an American writer and teacher on the social and economic effects of internet technologies.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 1964 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Yale University, BA in fine art, 1986 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Theatre: Founded the Hard Place Theater in New York in the 1990s, which staged non-fiction work from found documents (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @cshirky.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“My piece about AI in the classroom in The Chronicle of Higher Ed has been out for a couple of weeks, but it blew up today after Renic quoted it. Many commenters are ragging on AI-using students, but a lot of the…”
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Bluesky: @cshirky.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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27 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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MOOCs make it possible to unbundle the educational parts of education. (opens korrents.com)
“The possibility MOOCs hold out is that the educational parts of education can be unbundled.”
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The large lecture exists to cut the cost of introductory classes, not to produce intellectual joy. (opens korrents.com)
“The large lecture isn’t a tool for producing intellectual joy; it’s a tool for reducing the expense of introductory classes.”
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Higher education has a bad case of Baumol's cost disease. (opens korrents.com)
“Higher education has a bad case of cost disease (sometimes called Baumol’s cost disease, after one of its theorizers.)”
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MOOCs make it possible to unbundle the educational parts of education. (opens korrents.com)
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11 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Kindle Paperwhite (opens rcmnd.app)
“I do have two Kindle Paperwhites (two because I lost one in a pile of papers and replaced it and then found it again) which I love. The Kindle's best feature is that it offers no way to check my email.”
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Sublime (opens rcmnd.app)
“but I do just enough coding to want python running locally, and I've never found a Chrome extension that is anything like as good as Sublime for coding.”
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Chrome (opens rcmnd.app)
“and, starting in '12, a mixed period where I moved all my writing to Google Docs and coding to Sublime. (My browser is Chrome because duh.)”
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Kindle Paperwhite (opens rcmnd.app)