daniel lamire

on alternate currency - or punkmoney

So we need a system whereas perfect strangers can make deals at a very small transaction cost. For this purpose, people use punk money:

• You publicly promise a favor in exchange for a service, you may stipulate the terms.
• The Web records your transaction.
• Your public reputation guarantees the transaction.

It is a credit system, not barter. Barter assumes no trust between the individuals. Credit is founded on a trust mechanism.

via seb paquet

paul hughes

re-emphasized this (as i hear danah boyd saying in my head - quite often)
good intentions out number bad ones 20 to 1. The beauty of this logic is simple - the network magnifies good intentions exponentially faster than the bad ones - good guys and girls everywhere win.

dlight sky

intro'd me to this

and this

both seem to be resonating with a lot of people..

are we craving nature?

howard rheingold

my first intro to howard was this podcast.. i believe my first one ever.

dean shareski hosting- alec couros in there and rick
edtech-posse-5-6-chatting-with-howard-rheingold/ - 2009

7 min in - we're smarter at finding each other - howard
12:20 -  a refreshing mechanism - alec

14:20 - hangout - networked individualism - at the moment - our venn diagrams intersect - howard
15:12 - when you get ticked - you announce you are leaving.. that doesn't work on twitter - howard

15:40 - what takes place in a classroom
17:09 - wesch - the master
18:20 - a way out of the conundrum of assumed content - howard
18:45 - students expecting content -
20 - expertise lies not in content but in connection - alec
21:40 - kids in uni - 12+ years - good at being in an environment where they are told what to do - dean
28:57 - micro lecture format
29:40 - lectures are for telling students what's important in the reading you know they are not going to do - howard
30 - something in my gut tells me - lecturing students is not right - howard

30:45 - what's the value of being together in a room - dean
this is what hit me.. and i remember the podcast... and howard and dean and alec for

32:15 - kids in couros and shareski's rooms - think they are going to change the world.. fired up - rick

34:45 - i was too antsie to be in a classroom - howard - i see that person who i am out there talking them. they are either broken by the system.. or working it

35:20 - and these are the success stories of the system

40:35 - whoa sonja livingston

40: 40 - mindfulness, knowing what to pay attention to
43:20 - the meta-skill, is my  mind just wandering or do i need to pay attention to certain skill
44 - howard doing the - shut off for a minute - a probe of mindfulness - not telling you to not do things.. but to do things mindfully

47:55 - distracted by ben grey saying i'm full of crap - howard

50:45 - the community is whatever you want to project onto it
isn't about math to build a sturdy bridge.. it's about human behavior

51:50 - i think i would have to learn it with them - i think this is rick talking
54 - our minds are too fast for what we think they are - no? - howard
54:40 - having a wandering mind has gotten a bad name - howard

56 - we need to get this info out there - rick - esp what is really going on in the head of those who look distracted



so - my first intro to howard - is centered around this question.. what is the value of being together in a room. and via our learning and prototyping.. we are now saying.. create spaces of permission, with nothing to prove, spaces per choice.. gatherings that matter.
which bleeds right into the whole idea of networked individualism.

so - how important is crap detection?
good intentions out number bad ones 20 to 1. The beauty of this logic is simple - the network magnifies good intentions exponentially faster than the bad ones - good guys and girls everywhere win.
this directly from paul hughes - but i hear danah boyd saying this quite often.. our obsession with fear mongering.
others on our obsession with cyniscism...


and now - reading kathryn schulz's being wrong.. and hearing dave cormier in my head.. 

who's to say what is crap and what is not..

me - messingly thinking through all this here.

howard on net smart





my notes from reading net smart

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nic askew

an uncontained life..
giving yourself permission to be you.
to be fully alive..

FILM OF THE WEEK | SOUL BIOGRAPHIES

FILM OF THE WEEK | SOUL BIOGRAPHIES

give yourself permission to be you. fully alive.

detox monika

one of my detox videos. a longer one - i know..
but it geeked me out - even though i don't really like listening to my voice.

perhaps because it's so much about how rich i am..

64 - noticing how rich i am - via connections, what tech wants - to help us see with our hearts, math dislikes - but exponentiation, detox gyrations - app - mic & laptop - sends out coded ndcd to match you up, zuckerman - imaginary cosmopolitanism, maryann & walking & bunker roy - phd - pretty happy day - freed from the land of having to prove yourself

audrey watters

Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) 4/23/12 12:31 PM I've built a Twitter list of ed-tech startups. Who's missing?bit.ly/JlMFIa what did we ever do without Audrey?. i do love this: my-month-without-tech-blogs

einstein

when-einstein-met-tagore


via @brainpickings


oh my.. this sounds like our old stuco retreats..

creativity

lovely Jackie.. thank you..
schools-are-still-killing-creativity

prepare for uncertainty... facilitate curiosity...

doesn't that sound freeing..
don't we just want to give it a try..?

we have so much to gain from trying.
we have so much to lose from not..

no?

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rhizomatic learning

via @seecantrill

some-thinking-about-the-metaphor-of-the-rhizome-in

http://pinterest.com/seecantrill/rhizome/

Seecantrill (@Seecantrill) 4/29/12 10:55 AM Still lots to do, but some basics compiled to share re the “rhizome” in learning tmblr.co/ZQwEbyKWQ4d5r@davecormier2@monk51295nReilly

lurking

Harold Jarche ‏ @hjarche

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RT @Dave_Ferguson: Lurking is to learning as knowing grammar & vocab is to ordering your first meal in a foreign language. #lrnchat

oh.. the things the web can teach us.. no?

jabiz raisdana

on walks.. and such..


following Jabiz as he thinks on important matters through the course of a day..

1.

Jabiz Raisdana ‏ @intrepidteacher

Armed with our new #discovery and #exploration kit, we went outside to discover and explore our neighborhood

[interesting - when i tried to retweet the tweet above.. it wouldn't send until i took out the word armed. said reason was forbidden.]

2.
intrepidteacher @monk51295 Will do. Thanks. A little more context- http://t.co/YR1kH9S7 #discovery #exploration


and
3.

Jabiz Raisdana (@intrepidteacher) 4/29/12 8:31 AM @monk51295 More thoughts from our walk- t.co/L7w3Csznbb#discoveryc#explorationration

aditi shankardass

1 in 6 kids suffer from some development disorder

almost 50% of kids diagnosed with autism are actually just suffering from these brain seizures - too small to detect, and resembling the symptoms of autism... 

justin was treated and in 60 days went from 5 words to 300.. et al

schooling the world

oh love this..

via Carol Black

youth voices

doing be you.. (detox)

love it.
thanks Paul

ellen macarthur

slammed door..
it made me think.. really think.. what do i want to do..

foundation

the circular economy



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guernica 2012

Published on Apr 27, 2012 by starrtambor

Completed on the 75th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica, "Guernica 2012" intends to honor and reflect upon the many lives lost throughout "Operation Enduring Freedom" in and around Afghanistan. Each note represents a life, arranged by month and orchestrated by nationality, using only the fundamental notes and harmonics of the symphony orchestra. Although errors and omissions are certain, none were intended.

via
Maria Popova (@brainpicker)
4/28/12 6:40 AM
Beautiful, chilling, brilliant – music piece commemorates the 75th anniversary of Guernica, each note a life lostj.mp/J4h4eU

student voice

DML Central (@dmlcentral)
4/28/12 9:07 AM
The Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Ofbit.ly/Ic8tEV





mockingjay..
disrupt ourselves..
or be disrupted..
no?

douglas rushkoff

the invention of the corporation..
our commitment to debt based system..
the distrust..

it's good for when aliens attack..
not good when we want to inhabit reality..

we need to use our heads.

occupy - not just riling up against the now.. fighting an unlevel playing field that has been building up for years..

don't let anything too particular define it

maintain cohesion without centrality..

now occupy your town.




Tim Kastelle (@timkastelle)
4/27/12 5:15 PM
Rushkoff is an interesting guy: Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Lifebit.ly/KaRRCo

hbr

Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) 4/27/12 11:00 PM When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?s.hbr.org/Kadsef

when?

.. i'm thinking.. not until we boldly decide to set people free.. esp all the brilliant minds held up in what we call now... school classrooms.

aliveness/innovation/learning/being can't be managed.. can't be compulsory. needs to be explored (not ordained) in spaces of permission.. where people have nothing to prove.

partial freedom is no freedom..  -Krishnamurti 

as cool as they are..

pbl, game design, et al.. won't cut it.

well... not to a breathtakingness anyway.

moneys

via

Roger Schank (@rogerschank) 4/28/12 6:42 AM finally someone at the NY TImes has the guts to say the truth about testing; its about money money moneynytimes.com/2012/04/28/opi…

dave cormier

dave cormier (@davecormier)
4/28/12 6:41 AM
Every talk i put together is starting to say the same thing. either i'm starting to understand something or i'm getting boring :)

i'm thinking it's just time.. the time of obscurity has come..
and people need a bit of a jump start into that uncertainty.. that our souls.. our inner curiosities.. are craving.


been missing them since we were .. dang.. maybe 5...


you go dave cormier.

mark harvoth

Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal)
4/27/12 10:57 PM
even though I was homeless, homeless service agencies would not hire me because I didn't have enough experience with homelessness #honest

steve wheeler

Mark Barnes (@markbarnes19)
4/28/12 9:19 AM
Absolutely brilliant -- Cultural hegemony and disruption | Learning with 'e's ow.ly/azQq7 via@timbuckteeth

to survive - we will need to avoid complacency..

use our heads.. no?
talk to ourselves..

ethan w

oh my.

thank you Jackie..

press pause play

via
Jabiz Raisdana (@intrepidteacher)
4/28/12 9:09 AM
@HeidiSiwak @MaryAnnReilly Just watched @presspauseplay Amazing film. You will love it.




my first glimpse of them from seth


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saul kaplan

Saul Kaplan (@skap5)
4/28/12 9:16 AM
Dismissing an idea is easy. 
The hard thing to do is protect it. 
The right idea often starts as a wrong one.@jasonfried

could it be..

been thinking about practicalities playing out next year if/when we do get more people freed up to play this incredible game.

 a lot of the ..what would we do.. is just get out of the way.

older kids and adults know what to do if given time space resources.. better than any planning ..prepping committees could set up ahead of time.

so.. was thinking just now about the younger kids.. that's what many people often ask about.. ie: i see this for hs or higher ed .. but what about younger kids..

 so..
could it be... that younger kids simply need more adults freed up to hang with them.. to hang with...?

and perhaps even more important/intriguing.. esp in this interim..
could it be.. that adults simply need more time freed up to hang with younger kids.. esp.. 5 yr olds.

 arent we just curious..?
it could be that simple.

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Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Imagining A to Z: Y is for Yell and Be Silly

be.


Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Imagining A to Z: Y is for Yell and Be Silly: Y is for Yell and Be Silly  At the center of this post is one word: verb. I. Be a verb. Yell. Be silly. Out of that, imagination...

2020

via what-will-be-obsolete-in-2020/


gosh - hoping way before 2020...
but yeah.

ted ed

ted ed launches via fisch

ted ed launches via plock

we live in the time ..land of and..

only thing that matters is compulsion

personally i believe that perfect unschool situation provides the betterness we seek

but who am i to say..

it's about choice.

this is public ed.

you love school as is, great.. we can facilitate that for you.

you want to deschool.. great.. we can facilitate that for you.

you want whatever in between or beyond.. public equitable ed - will be at your disposal..

if so needed.. desired..

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number line

davidwees (@davidwees)
4/25/12 9:55 PM
Only 20 participants but interesting => MT @courosa: "Study finds twist to the story of the number line"bit.ly/IFdQ1y #mathchat

danah boyd

Alec Couros (@courosa) 4/25/12 9:54 PM "How a culture of fear thrives in attention economies, and what that means for "radical transparency"  putting everything out into the open will make people more honest... rests on the notion that the long term gains of radical transparency out weigh any short term costs.. bullying is not on the rise.. bullying is much more visible.. kids report that bullying at schools happens at higher degrees issue of perception and visibility we usually imagine the worst "protect the kids" becomes justification for regulating the net in any way you could possibly imagine us attorney general whoa.. 27:25 ff

twitter

Alec Couros (@courosa)
MT @mscofino: Love this Twitter connection story... Woody and Guthrie play catch: vsb.li/cHKMv8#shinyhappyinternet

Seth's Blog: The story of money is not a straight line

Seth's Blog: The story of money is not a straight line

bassam tarazi

site

colipera on the declaration of interdependence
[our dec of inter]

the accountability affect


all from Seth..
some reading
grazie..

phd

imagine all the time, energy, people, ... we spend today in the land of proof and validation.
imagine all the minds freed up - in spaces where they don't have anything to prove.

there's my phd. you?

thank you Mary Ann... walk about


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testing

the_problem_is_bigger_than_a pineapple

but - it's bigger than testing as well.

illich - it's the publicly prescribed curriculum..
it's the compulsion..

let's be about facilitating the curiosities within.. no?


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howard rheingold

presentation slides..

Come talk about +Howard Rheingold's Net Smart: How to Thrive Online http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12827 Join us on +Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday, April 25, at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times: goo.gl/3eOxS

Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt

Seth's Blog: Don't expect applause

Seth's Blog: Don't expect applause

huge.
find your art..
the thing you can't noy do.

what's up with this?..



we need to be together to dream together.. no?


thanks Pam..

eli stefanski

i. love. eli stefanski.



i like to play with the raw ingredients
i am an impatient optimist and i know we can be doing better
1. collaborative innovation
2. experiment always
3. user centered world.. we must design for it
4. play at the systems level
collaborative innovation is the mantra
http://www.ashoka.org/

you're not crazy - you're a social entrepreneur
competition really means to come together and strive together
creating solutions that everybody else says is impossible, that everybody else says is crazy

rapid experimentation - all the time


story - i need capital, but investors think i'm crazy


binary look at entrepreneurship, either you are in it for money or you're not an entrepreneur.. helping us lose.


i could be doing better.


we will not be making tweaks... bif
where can we stop debating and start experimenting..
what are we waiting for?.. because a decade is a terribly short time to waste.

today...
eli intro'd me to

• peter block - abundantcommunity
• Integralism
• jonathan harris - we feel
• energy czar
• etc..

oh my.

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katie salen

Katie and Howard:


hrheingold: More resources about Katie: http://dmlcentral.net/search/node/Katie%20Salen


notes from this session
design..
1. creating a need to know
2. game design as creating spaces of possibility - through design of rules
    start with content.. but then give space for learners to push the edges
3. flat classroom - expertise and authority is shared and distributed

multiplicity and overlap of ideas
games - constantly giving you shifting opportunities to do work under a core set of mechanics

game designers job is to design a space where player can be successful..

q2learn curric

all their work starts with the standards.. and common core

if game designers job is to design a space where player can be successful..
let's design a game .. where there's nothing to prove...

why are we so obsessed with measuring.. why are we not creating spaces where that doesn't exist..

question: How do you know which part of your curriculum or lesson is not working when so much is integrated?

what is it one must do to be successful in this space.. multiple choice test.. decodes a system - to be successful
taking a test is a part of everyone's life..
don't to send kids into standardized tests with no pre

vision -

scott cowen

president of tulane uni

reading about him and tulane in wagner's creating innovators..

talking about changing the mission of the uni - after the hurricane - to include more community engagement... how people were like - what is the uni united way now.
applications have more than doubled in the last four years and in entrance essays kids write how they chose tulane because of the community engagement (kids are not insubordinate or lazy.. they crave hard word.. but hard work that matters.. not the tedium of how we do school today)

tony asks scott

what about studetn admissions criteria. i know that the ranking of a uni is highly dependent on the average sat or act scores of the students who enroll, but in my experience, these score tell us nothing abou tstudents' abilitites to contribute meaningfully to social innovation and community service. how are you dealing with this?

scott responds:

it bothers me every single day, i know that these test scores do not have great meaning, but that's one of the metric that us ews and world reports uses and so we can't ignore it. i have this constant dilemma about the testing and how we use it here, and i haven't found a solution yet.

what are we doing.
what am i doing.

we know too much.
people are dying.. their creative, brilliant souls are dying... as we're continuing on.. under the guise of ..
in time, and ... that's the way it is.

mockingjay.


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Seth's Blog: Needs and wants are often confused

Seth's Blog: Needs and wants are often confused


so... needs are easily bullied..?
if so.. we ought to be very careful with that. no?

witnessing too much bullying, no? . over assumed .. but totally engrained as.. needs.

1. waiting in line at the store.. a mom talking to a friend about mtgs at school she's had to endure.. about her child's progress. she said it was intimidating.. they used big words and acronyms. an hour mtg.. listening to how poorly her child is doing in school. ( those were her words). then she said.. I haven't had anyone to compare him to. the other person .. well now you do. the mom.. but I think so and so is going to be really smart

2. kids this week prepping for act. not sleeping. worrying about ridiculous things.. I have to have a watch.. ihave to have two pencils. listening in on study sessions ( our school started an act academy last yr.. scores went up..one of the reasons gates is giving our district money.. the session was filling kids in who missed the academy. it was all about strategy.. how not to be creative, or to think too much. we've taught them act test design.. and scores go up. and we get rewarded.

3, reading wagners creating innovators. having trouble with some of the thinking we boldly print.. without realizing what we're saying.. ie: unboxing.. to box.. but tony has gathered some incredible personal insight..and the thing we want most.. alive people.. are getting shut out, squashed.. daily.. one that ESP grabbed me.. ok there's too many.. but.. "disadvantaged kids need to find their passion in order to get thru the tedium of school"
and.. uni profs that will never get tenure., why.. because they aren't focusing on assumed academic research..and filling kids up.. but rather.. facilitating curiosity.. creating alive people.
another prof talking about act/sat - he can't figure out how to get rid of them


we're so focused on bullying .. when of course., we're modeling it quite well.. no?

aren't we just a bit curious what might happen.. to a person, a city even.. if we freed people up in spaces of permission.. where they didn't have to prove anything..?
when did we decide proving ourselves was a need?

lady in line. your child is perfect..don't compare the. that's an assumed need. no reason to be bullied about it..

what am i doing about this..
i'm so sure it shouldn't be happening.. why can't i do more..
we need to do more. there's got to be a way.

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kosta grammatis

catching up with Kosta again.
dang.
certainly not sitting idly by.
http://ahumanright.org/

dmlcentral

ignite talks

DML Central (@dmlcentral)
4/19/12 7:32 PM
DML2012 Ignite Talks are up! We've synced up each IGNITE speaker's slide deck alongside their video.bit.ly/HX8GPW #DML2012

mimi:

we can create more of this - networked individualism - barry wellman


doug:

yup - we worship pisa
ed about cradling happiness

more to watch when i have time..
esp chad's.. : 0

leigh blackall

tomorrow's phd  to go with Kirsten's hack diss a few posts down

choice

so intrigued by what we keep choosing to focus on.. @InnovativeEdu The bad pineapple question is not the problem with standardized tests http://t.co/pRv0bNCe Doug Peterson (@dougpete) 4/23/12 4:27 AM What the U.S. can’t learn from Finlandzite.to/I753DI via @zite

i'm hearing equity - and free ed in this article.. liking that..

we keep reacting.. we're in competition mode.. which is not boding us well.. it makes us cynics.. in order to defend ourselves.. it keeps us busy.. busy to stay ahead.

so busy - that we're not using our heads..

Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Imagining A to Z: T is For Talking When You've Not...

Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Imagining A to Z: T is For Talking When You've Not...: T is for Talking When You've Nothing to Say Talking About Malcolm X, II (M.A. Reilly, 2008) John Cage  (1967) wrote: ...

talk to yourself daily... does what i'm doing matter? listen to yourself. listen to your gut..

kirsten olson

lovely fun..
hack the diss

zac chase is involved. need we say more..
:)

global data

George Siemens (@gsiemens)
4/14/12 7:27 AM
Want an analysis of the education sector? most comprehensive that I've seen: bit.ly/InmtwH#eisummit