2012 Dewey Lecture: Making Meaning Together Beyond Theory and Practice

dEwEy lEcturE: Making MEaning togEthEr BEyond thEory and PracticE

Educators frequently fret over how to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In an important sense, it is a false problem. Theory is simply the thoughtful, reflective phase of good practice. We will approach Dewey’s philosophy as one of continuous creation and re-creation or even more precisely, social co-creation, that requires making meaning, knowledge, and value together. We will look a...

Making Pilgrimages, Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

Thinking Together: Making Communities of Practice Work

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Advanced Complexity Theory Fall 2012 Lecture 15 — November 1 , 2012

Q: Why are we using circuit lower bounds here, as opposed to a claim such as E ̸⊆ P for example? A: The proof of the Nisan-Wigderson pseudorandom generator relies on nonuniformity, by showing that distinguishing a pseudorandom generator implies a circuit for solving a hard problem – this reduction involves hardwiring advice into a circuit in order to solve the hard problem. A contradiction requi...

ISconf: Theory, Practice, and Beyond

ISconf is a configuration management system (CMS) developed through years of experience automating configuration management. As the number of CMS’s available for use increases, attempts have been made to explain why one should use ISconf instead of those other tools; specifically, a stark contrast has been made between tools which depend on convergence, like cfengine, and ISconf, which strives ...