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Friday, February 3, 2012

Seth's Blog: Can I see your body of work?

Ewan mcintosh

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2012/02/making-a-creativity-friendly-school-timetable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+edublogs+%28Ewan+McIntosh+%7C+Digital+Media+%26+Education%29

the less fresh you are the better it is for your ability to think and act creatively:

Thursday, February 2, 2012

genevieve bell

the value of boredom

via @petervan his post - the future rarely arrives when planned
via @cocreatr

idle and boredom are diff

boredom - state of tedium repetition, disengaged with surroundings.

in that disengagement, brain lights up. being bored allows brain and consciousness to reset themselves

boredom is a natural human state and

we should spend more of our time actively waking it up - heidegger

we might have traded boredom for overload..

are these devices warding off boredom?

her plea:

1) bring boredom back

2) make spaces to be bored

3) be bored together

devices work better when constantly connected

humans work better when intermittently disconnected

mark pesce

via @petervan his post - the future rarely arrives when planned
via @cocreatr

5000 times as much info, because rendered in 3d

Identity is a function of community
And not just identity > even TALENT is a function of and a recognized value of a community
The social graph is the foundation of identity

how do we make people feel more secure in a world where evermore is being tracked

herefore, Mark’s thesis that “a group of well connected highly empowered individuals is a force to be reckoned with” is one of the biggest forces in place. It has always been, but now returning in force thanks to our hyper-connectivity and information abundance.

the art of hiding in plain sight

a redirection of the audiences gaze

only frightening if we deny ourselves agency

dale stephens

why go to college

holy cow.. look at the comments..

audrey watters

Audrey Watters @audreywatters

Interesting graph of the network of Twitter users who recently tweeted "#educon" bit.ly/Aq2M4A

Audrey Watters (@audreywatters)
2/1/12 12:13 PM
Compare what that graph looks like to this one: the network around the @gatesfoundationbit.ly/A1M2Ib
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Audrey Watters @audreywatter

vorite

· Open

Zuckerberg's Hacker Way and Higher Ed bit.ly/xElaHS

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.

We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.

Focus on Impact:
Move Fast:
Be Bold:
Be Open:

We believe that a more open world is a better world because people with more information can make better decisions and have a greater impact.

Build Social Value:

Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works." This is an important lesson for us to heed in educational institutions, I'd argue, although I'm certain it's not one that a lot of folks want to hear.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

venessa miemis

Venessa Miemis (@VenessaMiemis)
2/1/12 6:16 AM
every age has its mythology, an overarching meta-narrative that defines it and guides its purpose. what is ours? #pondering#storytelling

Michael Feldstein (@mfeldstein67)
2/1/12 6:24 AM
Science decodes 'internal voices'zite.to/z6eo0p via @zite

Venessa Miemis (@VenessaMiemis)
2/1/12 6:13 AM
slideshow: 'building an ecology for transformative action' bit.ly/AaXBHZ by@HeleneFinidori

Kenneth Bernstein (@teacherken)
2/1/12 6:08 AM
international war on poor people dailykos.com/story/2012/02/… som jumbled thoughts after listening to morning news

Thomas Steele-Maley (@steelemaley)
1/31/12 8:32 PM
politics plurality, individuality and the world: globalciv.org/2012/01/hannah… #foundpol cc:@MaryAnnReilly @monk51295 @rogre@KornerstoneGuy

why

Venessa Miemis (@VenessaMiemis)
2/1/12 6:16 AM
every age has its mythology, an overarching meta-narrative that defines it and guides its purpose. what is ours? #pondering#storytelling

kdwashburn (@kdwashburn)
2/1/12 6:22 AM
What should we be teaching? zite.to/A4WJod#education

Randy Turner (@rturner229)
2/1/12 6:08 AM
No one likes Jane Cunningham. KC Star columnist says her plan to destroy KC public schools may save them:rturner229.blogspot.com/2012/02/kc-sta…

Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann)
2/1/12 6:15 AM
Beyond Leveled Readers is a lovely, practical way to create a culture of reading in the k-8 class.amzn.to/wMvOmj #Kindle

Cathy Davidson (@CathyNDavidson)
2/1/12 6:26 AM
White House office studies benefits of video game--ones that get kids hooked on learning! USATODAY.comusat.ly/wdIq3W

Tony Baldasaro (@baldy7)
1/31/12 8:24 PM
“@willrich45: "Preparing Students to Learn Without Us" bit.ly/xmMzMM My new essay in Ed Leadership. #edreform#edchat #cpchat”

dcannell (@dcannell)
1/31/12 6:38 AM
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrongzite.to/xRKS0l via @zite

We're almost there . . . toward meeting our 80% TCAP Achievement target for Grade 3 Reading, as a district.

The attached report shows individual school results and how they compare with the district average prediction of 79% (without our two charter schools and students with mobility within our schools). It also includes your favorite Quadrant Plot.

These predictions may not exactly match those on Acuity for several reasons. This report

1. is based on the actual "scale score" and "incremental proficiency (IP) score" of each student (along with the associated psychometric and instructional implications),

2. only includes students who tested in A, B, and C at the same school,

3. does not include a small number of outliers whose normalized gain (growth) was less that -100%.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

sebastian thrun

via @uncollege

prof thrun drops out of stanford - udacity

video
googles lab for wildest dreams
vie sagt mann. love it.
160000 students for ai via stanford

instead of lecturing we would quiz
principal way of engaging.. the student has to think

they prefer him on video (30000 a year) - because they can watch in lurk mode
volunteer - 2000 translators

these are not your typical stanford students

let them fail and i'd come to their rescue.
there was no purpose of weeding, no certificate to be earned
we don't set up kids for success but for failure
we don't help our students become smart
grades are the failure of the ed system
rather than grading, get everyone to a+
?
today, when kids get a c, we don't take the time to bring them up to an a
this medium is giving us the opportunity to do that

in response to comments - how can you teach with 160000

change the world with ed, free for world, core of a society

stop empowering the prof's and start empowering the students

in 7 weeks - anyone could build their own google. search engine..

part of this.. is getting rid of compulsion... esp in k-12.. no?

thank you sebastian, and dale and sal, and ...

love this via Sebastian:

the real question is not, what's going to happen to the uni, but what's going to happen to the people...

his company 50% female.
classes 10% female.
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tedxfrontrange

Hi TEDx Fans!
Employing a disciiplined and deliberate process, the TEDxFrontRange Steering Committe is proud to announce the entire lineup of speakers for the May 10, 2012 event. Below are the names, location and organization for each presenter:

Eunny Jang, Loveland, Interweave Press
Amy Prieto, Fort Collins, CSU & Prieto Battery Inc.
Peter Kageyama, St. Petersburg FL, Creative Class Group
Christian Leobardo, Loveland, Be You House
Joan C. King, Loveland, Beyond Success LLC
Don Proffit, Trenton NJ, Proffit Projects LLC
Changa Hinton Leichtle, Denver, The Chanda Plan
Nikolaus Correll, Boulder, CU
Bryce Hach, Fort Collins, Homeward 2020
Blas Estrada, Fort Collins, Generation Prosper
Peter Harold, Loveland, Be You House
Tony Monfiletto, Albuquerque NM, ACE Leadership
Jim Tolstrup, Loveland, High Plains Environmental Center
Randy Menzer, Denver, Ameribotics
Neil Almy, Berthoud, Prairie Star
Irene Fortune, Loveland, FRONT Range on Track
Sierra Goldstein, Loveland, Be You House
John Daggett, Fort Collins, Embrace Northern Colorado

More event information, including sponsor announcements, will be forthcoming.

kool beans.. no?

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sue vanhattum

MaryAnnReilly 2 great posts by @suevanhattum Richmond #Math Salon http://t.co/jtK6Bwza & my ideal school Cc @monk51295

poem is lovely Sue.. grazie.

will richardson

Will Richardson (@willrich45)
1/31/12 6:29 AM
First read this LA teacher's story lat.ms/yEBCaO then, read the comments lat.ms/zQZDw2 Tests have no empathy #edchat #edreform

Will Richardson (@willrich45)
1/31/12 6:32 AM
And btw, you think this nyti.ms/x0fMml might have something to do with the edu "problem"? We learning this? #edchat #edreform

We need a program that would force members of the upper tribe and the lower tribe to live together, if only for a few years. We need a program in which people from both tribes work together to spread out the values, practices and institutions that lead to achievement.If we could jam the tribes together, we’d have a better elite and a better mass.

no forcing.. but that's what we're up to..
a quiet revolution.

douglas rushkoff

this book looks great. i love the interview.
currently reading quiet by cain..
thinking - everything that we think is a disadvantage is actually a super power.. we're just often coming from the wrong vantage point.

douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff)
1/31/12 6:02 AM
Interview: Douglas Rushkoff On Media Literacy and His New Graphic Novel huff.to/yLXJPx via@HuffingtonPost

Monday, January 30, 2012

homeschooling

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/29/why-urban-educated-parents-are-turning-to-diy-education.html

john hagel

evolution of design to amplify flow

via @CoCreatr

It is particularly interesting to see how the constructal law is used in a predictive manner – anticipating what the design of a particular flow system might look like and then empirically testing it in various natural settings.

rings of current convos and thinking on detox.
simply used as a template, in a model, of how this has worked for some.

and this - of our why.. setting people free:

Freedom enhances the evolution of design

This focus on the evolution of design also leads the authors to emphasize the importance of freedom. “A prerequisite, then, is for the flow system to be free to morph. . . . Freedom is good for design. Later on, the authors observe: “Freedom is what allows flow systems to configure and reconfigure themselves. It is what allows them to “get design” and get better. Without freedom there would be no design and no evolution.”

again.. like a turtle, with a shell for protection. if we take away the shell (likening this to the school system, taking away self-directed learning) we need to return the shell (or for ed, offer up conditions of freedom, ie: detox, sabbatical, ...) before the turtle (or the person) can once again own/be themselves.

ramblings from an email i sent to adam about this issue. hosting it here for now.. so i can come back to it:

im believing..there is no ultimate, no defined definition. a definition, to me, deadens, calls out a " game over" mindset. even if it didn't deaden things.. keeps people from that daily.. aliveness and searching, noticing, etc... it's different for everyone.. and within everyone.

so.. school, or detox, ... we're just offering ideas.. right?

this is just a preface, as I then attempt to share my current view of these ideas..

in my thinking, the concept of detox is "coming out" as a strong temporary jumpstart.. a template to follow even, because our intoxication has become so bad. it's like an external setting free, even as people go in to physically rescue human trafficked victims, take them to a safe place, to begin healing. and it's become bad because of an outside force, this schooling. schooling, not as something I'll intended, but as something gone a muck, and in it's own redefinition, manifesting as a type of imprisonment. it's perpetuating it's own dependency.

so a be you house, a detox place, rather than theorize, we offer a space to actually jumpstart that healing. currently, I'm thinking not everyone will need to go to such a physical space, but us physically modeling that, makes it easier for others to visualize how their own mind might take charge and set themselves free.

no doubt, this is personal, ongoing, daily.

again, i see detox (and the lab) as such, we are play acting... to free us from a temporary disaster. we are physically walking through the motions of a healthy mind. detox and the innovation lab as some outside rescue, for it to see success, is that it is no longer needed.. we're re-enacting something natural. success will be people free, because of their once again, owning their own curiosity...

he was questioning the whole idea of setting people free, as opposed to them freeing themselves. as well as what detox is..

ongoing for sure.. infinite game..

seth godin

influencing our town

Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)
1/29/12 4:51 AM
The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony bit.ly/wz4EbH by @freegorifero via@jorgebarba

Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)
1/29/12 4:46 AM
RT @dachisgroup Age of Disruption? bit.ly/x0LTfi via@jorgebarba

Pasi Sahlberg (@pasi_sahlberg)
1/29/12 4:07 AM
Finland's formula for school success:edutopia.org/education-ever…

why must we insist on classroom? what do we mean by regular.. and why insist on certain means of communication...

why must we know 2^3?