I am puzzled. Highly skilled artisans, artists, creators and designers are perhaps among the most sophisticated researchers our society produces.

We need to understand that the creative act is never singular in character or in action, never clearly purposive although filled with intention.

Digital cultures are hugely democratizing because they encourage many different forms of creative output, but this does not mean that the works being produced will find a significant place in our society.

An editorial in the April 2010 edition of Nature Magazine raises some important issues about student learning experiences in the sciences.

We are in the midst of a sea change which will affect many of the assumptions which we have about how students learn and how teachers teach.

I will call him Anthony. He arrived in Vancouver with a trunk full of DVD's. He uses SMS and a variety of social networking tools to communicate with friends and family.

There are numerous books about learning and many different points of view about how people learn and what kinds of institutions (if any) work best for students and the public at large.

My point here is that although computers are designed by humans, programmed by humans and then used by humans, this tells us only part of the story.

So why explore the intersections of human thought and computer programming?

This initial creativity was soon lost in the final version of “Understanding Media published in the 1964. In the book the medium becomes the message through the operations of an instantaneous sensory recognition of meaning.

Deep Blue is emblematic of a whole class of emerging computer systems that combine ultrafast processing with analytical software.

The notion of learning communities needs to be deepened through an analysis of institutions and how they function.

There is a simple definition of learning community that says, “This phrase describes a vision and model where a community's stakeholders come together and share resources.

I think it is important not to limit the idea of learning community to that of 'a community that cares for the institutions

I have been thinking along these lines for quite a while especially with my experiences recently in Paris.

I liked your idea regarding the obliteration of classrooms as we know them today

I am not sure, though, if the simple elimination of the idea of the classroom would as such alter out conceptions and pre-conceptions about learning