we cry out for evidence that we belong..
...we have never been alone.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
malte spitz
http://www.ted.com/speakers/malte_spitz.html
"Seen individually, the pieces of data are mostly inconsequential and harmless. But taken together, they provide what investigators call a profile–a clear picture of a person’s habits and preferences, and indeed, of his or her life.""Betrayed by Our Own Data," Die Zeit
betrayed by it perhaps - unless we are the ones crafting it..
mesh yourself... no?
thanks Jodhbir
explosion of nodes
via Peter's cambrian explosion
via conversation
Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff)
7/30/12 5:51 PM
Dialogue Café is the world’s first open videoconferencing network specifically designed for civil society.#UhOkay bit.ly/OeDawO
via conversation
Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff)7/30/12 5:51 PM
Dialogue Café is the world’s first open videoconferencing network specifically designed for civil society.#UhOkay bit.ly/OeDawO
Sunday, July 29, 2012
algebra
 Roger Schank (@rogerschank)7/29/12 5:46 AM Is Algebra Necessary? (the NY Times actually prints an important idea about education)nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opi… i would even question the last paragraph - long division. what is proof of anything doing to us? yong zhao we're spending so much time and money on something most of us never use.. let's talk to ourselves about that... let's respectfully question that. more. and ongoing. no? i'm so surprised we haven't pushed past this ... it seems so convoluted, (et al), so clear. so simple. and now i hear descartes.. (and argyris) warning that we veer from simplicity, because then we appear ignorant to others. ie: no one ever believes in simplicity.  umair haque (@umairh)8/7/12 5:15 PM Yet, despite our disillusionment, we're not ready to face the challenge of challenging the illusion. not that anything is good or bad.. the compulsion of something deemed necessary for all - is what's killing us.. no? |
Saturday, July 28, 2012
don tapscott
openness
collaboration - eclectic - adj possibilities
transparency - need values - sharing of knowledge
sharing - giving up assets - new power of the commons
empowerment - freedom
startlings - sense of interdependence
go beyond sharing info and knowledge - but our intelligence.. create some type of consciousness
let's do this
via
Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)7/28/12 9:10 AM
Finally found some time to listen to #TEDGlobal Don Tapscott @dtapscott Four principles for the open world: youtu.be/jfqwHT3u1-8 > magic!
fiction
what-fiction-teaches-us-about-our-lives/
spot on. so powerful guys.
especially this:
But I am awake enough to know ..
spot on. so powerful guys.
especially this:
But I am awake enough to know ..
bold academy
Day In the Life of BOLD from Ryan McDaid on Vimeo.
2:30 - i was the person that everyone else wanted me to be
3:00 - know too much to not..
4:25 - a mindset - that we can
5:30 - create similar learning experiences for others
incredible experience & peek-in at The Bold Academy last night. huge grazie Jessie Yancey-Siegel Amber Rae Teju & et al: https://vimeo.com/46319954
Friday, July 27, 2012
innovators
Harold Jarche (@hjarche)7/27/12 6:28 AM
Innovators do not wait for examples or industry best practices. By then, it's too late.
disrupt/hack/create yourself..
copyright
Brad Ovenell-Carter (@Braddo)7/27/12 6:30 AM
The new Canadian copyright law and its impact on online learningbit.ly/QiN28W
happy
via good
GOOD (@GOOD)
7/27/12 6:35 AM
What makes you happy? @HappyPostPro is globe-trotting to capture the answers on Post-It notes. (@GOODmkr finalist) bit.ly/MjxocP
GOOD (@GOOD)7/27/12 6:35 AM
What makes you happy? @HappyPostPro is globe-trotting to capture the answers on Post-It notes. (@GOODmkr finalist) bit.ly/MjxocP
moneys
Dan Gardner (@dgardner)7/27/12 6:29 AM
How much for the name of the city? RT @Richard_Florida: Pittsburgh to sell naming rights to just about everything - bit.ly/Nyd102
via bif funnel ? via no -strings attached moneys? or not?
freedom
umair haque (@umairh)7/27/12 6:43 AM
LOL "@JuiceRapNews: The ability to use as many, or as little words as we like. @umairh: "Define freedom in five words or less."”
Cathy Davidson (@CathyNDavidson)7/27/12 6:36 AM
Today's meditation: If there is no fixed standard of educational success, do learning disabilities exist?
freedom
umair haque (@umairh)7/27/12 6:43 AM
LOL "@JuiceRapNews: The ability to use as many, or as little words as we like. @umairh: "Define freedom in five words or less."”
badges
amy: Connie says badges are for making pathways transparent, creating equity
amy: The thing they are missing is it doesn't change equity because it is not changing resources
me: exactly - it's just changing ways to prove things.. which i think is one of the biggest problems.. that we think we have to prove things
Amy: Erick just had an epiphany... rather than badges, unlocks.
Amy: Erick just had an epiphany... rather than badges, unlocks.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
platforms
the-race-to-platform-education
via
eLearning Learning (@elearningPosts)
7/25/12 8:35 PM
MOOCs are really a platformbit.ly/OGf7We
rushkoff - program or be programmed - no?
imagine:
Whoever has the platform sets the rules and controls the game.
via
eLearning Learning (@elearningPosts)7/25/12 8:35 PM
MOOCs are really a platformbit.ly/OGf7We
rushkoff - program or be programmed - no?
imagine:
let's facilitate this. too many people seem to be asking if it's legal for
them to think for themselves. let's help people see the value of making
two ongoing conversations [1) with self, 2) with others] transparent.
toward the intention economy (searls) and betterness (haque)
let's realize how much more humane it is to encourage people to be
themselves. to create themselves, be their own entrepreneurs, with their
own platforms - networked individualism - (wellman)
@michaelebeling shared from Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
@michaelebeling shared from Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Audrey Watters (boris groysberg
talkinc
and michael slind's book talk, inc
via
the power of conversational leadership
and at the bottom - the excerpt from the book:
and michael slind's book talk, inc
via
the power of conversational leadership
In their new book, Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations, Groysberg and communication professional Michael Slind show how several global companies are adopting principles of face-to-face conversation, and why this approach positively affects a company's bottom line.
"In many ways the book is not about communication as much as it is about performance," Groysberg says. "In an economic environment where there is so much uncertainty, the senior management of a company might not know where the company should be going in three years. But your frontline customer-facing people might. Having communication that goes bottom-up is just as important as having communication that goes top-down."
and at the bottom - the excerpt from the book:
intimacy
interactivity
inclusion
intentionality
dan meyer
abstracting abstraction
concretizing abstraction
reminded me of this
Roberto Greco (@rogre)
7/24/12 4:20 PM
“You are a link. That’s the point. You’re not watching the world, you’re part of the world. In it. …”williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/
just what is ...it..
Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer)
7/26/12 6:53 AM
Interesting commentary on @khanacademy here. Impossible to pack into a pullquote for a reporter, though.bit.ly/QJWOWe
concretizing abstraction
reminded me of this
Roberto Greco (@rogre)7/24/12 4:20 PM
“You are a link. That’s the point. You’re not watching the world, you’re part of the world. In it. …”williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/
just what is ...it..
Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer)7/26/12 6:53 AM
Interesting commentary on @khanacademy here. Impossible to pack into a pullquote for a reporter, though.bit.ly/QJWOWe
wikipedia
Helen Keegan (@heloukee)7/24/12 11:35 PM
"Wikipedia would be a shambles without #bots" BBC News: Meet the 'bots' that edit #Wikipediabbc.in/NtR567
also love what Stavridis has to say about it at 15 min in on his ted
twitter as well at 12 min in
spaces
Steve Collis (@Steve_Collis)7/24/12 11:07 PM
this person @imma65 who blogs here engagednready.wordpress.com has spent years re-envisioning learning spaces. Ping @irasocol
why cities
crowd-sourcing-future-british-columbia
huge.. great article. people are starting to get this.
yet no one is freeing up the now claimed #2 market in the us, at 1.3 trillion.. public ed, where we have brilliant minds .. all ages.. yet grouped by age.. held up in classrooms for 7hrs a day.. prepping for tests, or stressed about test results (performance on something soon trashed. rather than the flourishing of a city).
no?
thanks J Sertl on fb
http://visionvideos.tumblr.com/
huge.. great article. people are starting to get this.
yet no one is freeing up the now claimed #2 market in the us, at 1.3 trillion.. public ed, where we have brilliant minds .. all ages.. yet grouped by age.. held up in classrooms for 7hrs a day.. prepping for tests, or stressed about test results (performance on something soon trashed. rather than the flourishing of a city).
no?
thanks J Sertl on fb
http://visionvideos.tumblr.com/
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
college admissions
and this from 2010
SAT scores and GPAs are much of what make or break a college application. And yet, over the course of my years in the Yale admissions office, I found myself continually surprised by how many of the students we accepted had sky-high SAT scores but seemed to lack basic practical and creative skills, whereas others with more modest scores were stunning successes at Yale, both academically and personally.
Many students who appear to have tremendous potential at age 17, based on their SAT scores and GPAs, don't look so wonderful 20 years later.
Many of the major messes confronting us today - in corporate boardrooms and on Wall Street, in politics and even in churches - have been created by people who tested very well and earned high grades at prestigious institutions. They are smart, but foolish. The world might improve if we deliberately and systematically selected students not only for their knowledge and analytical skills, but also for their creative and practical skills - and their wisdom.
james stavridis
Imagine a global security plan driven by collaboration, not conflict. That's the vision ofJames Stavridis, Supreme Commander of NATO: Bridges, not walls.
walls don't work... let's build bridges to create security
whoa - 85% of afghan's can't read when enter force - so they teach them..
baseball - creates security because it shows role models
esp like 12 min in - on twitter
and 15 min in - on wikipedia - 10's of thousands of people including info.. a perfect image for the fundamental point that no on of us is as smart as all of us -
vision of wikipedia: world in which every human being can create and share the sum of all knowledge
Stavridis - saying - together we can create the sum of all security
tozier
Roberto Greco (@rogre)7/24/12 4:20 PM
“You are a link. That’s the point. You’re not watching the world, you’re part of the world. In it. …”williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/
michael karnjanaprakorn
Michael Karnjanaprakorn @mikekarnj
Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO and Co-founder of Skillshare, "a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone." At Skillshare, they believe that: "[E]veryone has something they want to learn and something they can teach to others. This means our communities are really the greatest universities. Our platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching, and fun." Michael and I will talk about the ways in which teaching and learning are becoming separated from our traditional learning environments, whether this is old wine in new bottles or represents a truly significant change (think of Craigslist and classified ads), and the importance of passion and personal potential in learning.
Prior to Skillshare, Michael Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook. And before that, he developed products and services at Behance. As a philanthropist, Michael was the Co-founder of All Day Buffet and The Feast, which was listed as one of “25 Ways to get Smarter in 2010” by The Daily Beast. In his spare time, he is an avid poker player, NYC foodie, HBO fanatic, and sometimes foursquare mayor of Tacombi. Michael is a graduate of the University of Virginia and VCU Brandcenter.
via
Join me Tuesday, July 24th, at an early time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO and Co-founder of Skillsh
Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO and Co-founder of Skillshare, "a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone." At Skillshare, they believe that: "[E]veryone has something they want to learn and something they can teach to others. This means our communities are really the greatest universities. Our platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching, and fun." Michael and I will talk about the ways in which teaching and learning are becoming separated from our traditional learning environments, whether this is old wine in new bottles or represents a truly significant change (think of Craigslist and classified ads), and the importance of passion and personal potential in learning.
Prior to Skillshare, Michael Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook. And before that, he developed products and services at Behance. As a philanthropist, Michael was the Co-founder of All Day Buffet and The Feast, which was listed as one of “25 Ways to get Smarter in 2010” by The Daily Beast. In his spare time, he is an avid poker player, NYC foodie, HBO fanatic, and sometimes foursquare mayor of Tacombi. Michael is a graduate of the University of Virginia and VCU Brandcenter.
via
Join me Tuesday, July 24th, at an early time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO and Co-founder of Skillsh
raquel recuero
democracy-youth-and-the-internet - session on connectlearning.tv
notes from session
interesting when Raquel talks about her children - and that there lives are all online via relatives, et al.
and then talks about why this isn't even a conversation (tech in schools et al) in brazil - because rather than risk things being online - they are forbidding it
Raquel to Augusto: the counter-intelligence, from my point of view, are fighting with the same guns... thus violence against violence
“We’re not being effective in changing the ways people think because we’re being violent.” - Raquel
notes from session
interesting when Raquel talks about her children - and that there lives are all online via relatives, et al.
and then talks about why this isn't even a conversation (tech in schools et al) in brazil - because rather than risk things being online - they are forbidding it
Raquel to Augusto: the counter-intelligence, from my point of view, are fighting with the same guns... thus violence against violence
“We’re not being effective in changing the ways people think because we’re being violent.” - Raquel
people agenda (open uni)
to piggy back on this post: open university
this idea is great - sam's post on helping parents (people) become their own startups..
but let's not settle for one book.. (and i confess - i haven't really looked at it.. but what i read below makes me wonder).. that might not even address the means to setting our youth free - is it addressing - non-compulsion? or is assuming a publicly prescribed curriculum. [i know, i know, with good intent, but we do need to open our eyes a bit more, this is the human spirit we are (mis)shaping, no?]
what if those 3 things aren't the road to betterness? (haque)
what if what we need is to get out of the classroom, what if the classroom(including the compulsory curriculum here) is what is causing the behavior and the non-learning
i do agree we need local conversations - to both hear voice and to inform. most people don't realize the options they have, many don't believe it's legal to think for themselves, so they are looking to pick sides. and today - they don't have to.
if we can help people see that.. let them co-create their own options, crowdsource their own dreams..
practicing the art of conversation will not only pull us through all this mess.. it will get us back to us. - what tech wants - and what it could be helping us with.
this idea is great - sam's post on helping parents (people) become their own startups..
but let's not settle for one book.. (and i confess - i haven't really looked at it.. but what i read below makes me wonder).. that might not even address the means to setting our youth free - is it addressing - non-compulsion? or is assuming a publicly prescribed curriculum. [i know, i know, with good intent, but we do need to open our eyes a bit more, this is the human spirit we are (mis)shaping, no?]
"How People Learn" examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn.
what if those 3 things aren't the road to betterness? (haque)
This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning.
what if what we need is to get out of the classroom, what if the classroom(including the compulsory curriculum here) is what is causing the behavior and the non-learning
Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods--to help children learn most effectively?what if we are spending our time answering the wrong questions?
i do agree we need local conversations - to both hear voice and to inform. most people don't realize the options they have, many don't believe it's legal to think for themselves, so they are looking to pick sides. and today - they don't have to.
if we can help people see that.. let them co-create their own options, crowdsource their own dreams..
practicing the art of conversation will not only pull us through all this mess.. it will get us back to us. - what tech wants - and what it could be helping us with.
detox app
Don Tapscott (@dtapscott)7/24/12 6:31 AM
How elections launch tech startups
ow.ly/1Om8Lc
why google? thinking like this: election-startup-obama - best minds in tech - ie: optimizely - dan siroker from google, seth bannon - amicus
what we're working on in re: detox app
we would love help with this. we believe it could change the world.. seeing as how ed is the #2 market in the US at 1.3 trillion. and more important - that it takes up 90% of people's 16,000 hours - where they could be becoming expert at the thing they can't not do - their art.
trying to get an idea for a phone or website app to walk people through daily talks with themselves - so that the tech can then
1) connect them to their people
2) leave a trail of their intentions (to replace diploma/degree/et al)
what do you think?
what do you think?
we're imagining this app as a means to facilitate the chaos as we redefine public ed:declaration of interdependence
we're also imagining it a better way to facilitate curiosities, create gatherings that matter - globally. esp vs our current way of schooling the world...
teacher's union
Mike Klonsky (@mikeklonsky)7/24/12 6:27 AM
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Teacher unions will be a key issue at SOS Convention.michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/
i don't understand all this.
and, not either or
 EDTECH HULK (@EDTECHHULK)7/24/12 6:14 AM EVERYONE! PICK SIDE NOW! EDX OR COURSERA! RT @jryoung Berkeley Joins ‘EdX’ Effort to Offer Free Open Courses - chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcam… |
unfortunately.. how were doing public Ed and.. life.. no?
i do like the ability to take a course for free - then decide at the end if you want to pay for the paper or whatever..
takes out the mystery - finds those really into it..
but - we live in the time of and. not either or.
cities
 Brigham Yen (@brigham)7/23/12 6:55 PM @Richard_Florida Downtown LA, the transit hub of LA, is going thru an amazing urban renaissance, we cover it: dtlarising.com #DTLA |
Monday, July 23, 2012
pellepedagog
http://pellepedagog.se/
per falk - @perfal
from this page
?
what think ye?
per falk - @perfal
from this page
It was the grading criteria are important to keep in the background so we know what we're working towards. It is very important when we have the ability to freely choose what we want to do that we can link it to the rating criteria and objectives, it will be easy fun with a TV show but that's the challenge for us students, and Per is to link it to curriculum, which is the framework for the course.to me - that's more self-directed or personalized learning of a curriculum.. not chaortic, rhizomatic, nomadic ... learning
?
what think ye?
the open university
open university
under rhizomatic learning:
For the educator, supporting rhizomatic learning requires the creation of a context within which the curriculum and knowledge are constructed by members of a learning community and which can be reshaped in a dynamic manner in response to environmental conditions.seems odd that for rhizomatic learning someone has to create a context within a curriculum..
that's the only part i'm not resonating with in the rhizome section - well - and the talk of the branches being topics.. that's just a web no?
p. 6:
Our aim is to produce a series of reports that explore new pedagogies for an interactive world. The reports are intended for teachers, policy makers, academics and anyone interested in how education may change over the next ten years.reports for teachers and policy makers and academics? over the next 10 yrs.
By pedagogy we mean the theory and practice of teaching, learning, and assessment.
probably - if we go that route - and keep to the curriculum.. no?
We acknowledge inspiration from the NMC Horizon Reports as well as other future-gazing reports on education.nmc horizon as future gazing? - in respect and love, it's more like reporting on current innovations - not future
In our report, the first in a series of annual briefings, we explore current and emerging innovations in education for the 21st century, in the hope that it will guide teacherswhat if curriculum design, course development and teaching strategies are the problem? - or at least - not our best focus..
and policy makers in making informed decisions about curriculum design, course development and teaching strategies
1. - we can already do those things with a kindle - as much as we need to - no?. a lot of sales here sounds like ways to present things.. do we need that?
2. - shirky - it's all already out there.. why keep reproducing.. and charging [1.3 trillion, ed 2nd largest market in the us] - why not add to wikipedia et al
or write your own books -
3. oh my.
Each of these principles can be assisted by
technology. For example, good performance could
be clarified by providing students with interactive
walk-throughs of successful solutions to problems.
Technology-enabled feedback can include
immediate automated responses to open
assignments and written student reports. The
computational technique of latent semantic analysis
processes a corpus of text (such as previous
student work over a range of marks, or a set of
model answers) to uncover similarities in meaning
between words and phrases, then uses this to
simulate human judgements of the coherence and
style of a new piece of student writing.
instagrok's idea is closest to feedback like a game gives - model responses? yikes.
this is where the focus of teaching, assessing and learning.. falls short on the first two.
imagine something like jerry's brain idea as a replacement for measuring and credentialing...
onto the intention economy - no
so much of this seems bent on proof. measurement. and a lot - proof and measurement of things other people have decided you should learn.
maybe i'm just in a cranky mood.
will come back later.
compulsion
we also know that these courses also exhibit very high attrition rates, possibly as high as 97%.
because choice at the high end is involved.. hang out, do work or not, get credit or not, pay or not...
via
Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya)
7/23/12 2:06 PM
some good points on coursera et al:bogost.com/blog/mooc_rhet…
because choice at the high end is involved.. hang out, do work or not, get credit or not, pay or not...
via
Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya)
7/23/12 2:06 PM
some good points on coursera et al:bogost.com/blog/mooc_rhet…
silicon valley bubble
Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly)7/23/12 6:02 AM
Looking beyond Silicon Valley's bubblenyti.ms/MDNNxw
esp reinvent ed.. ?
Karen Cator, director of educational technology, United States Department of Education
The advent of digital tools will have an impact on education that will rival that of the printing press, said Ms. Cator. The challenge is making the shift from print-based materials to digital ones that offer new levels of interactivity. Until then, she said, schools will be hampered by the need to invest simultaneously in books and bits.
Karen - new levels of interactivity - as in city as school
Tom Vander Ark, managing partner, Learn Capital
The very idea of school has already begun to shift permanently, said Tom Vander Ark, whose firm invests in companies working in educational technology. Mr. Vander Ark believes that, in many schools, traditional classrooms will give way to ad hoc and ever-changing groupings of students who are working on similar material on a given day.
Tom - absolutely - gatherings that matter because they are per choice/passion/intention - that's what tech can do for us - match.com style - cool if via self-reflection (redefine public ed)
Tom - imagine if that phone app or whatever isn't driven by knowledge - but by passion and intent of each individual. and then that data is used to create serendipitous connections
Tom - imagine if that phone app or whatever isn't driven by knowledge - but by passion and intent of each individual. and then that data is used to create serendipitous connections
Larry Cuban, emeritus professor, Stanford University School of Education
Mr. Cuban, who wrote about computers in the classroom as far back as 1986, said that predictions of impending educational revolution are nothing new. There is danger in people falling for the hype, he said. But Mr. Cuban believes that change in education will not come as quickly as many predict. He noted that some reformers have been attempting to end summer vacation for decades. “Summer is still here,” he said.
Larry - perhaps that's the ticket - summer - as always here. imagine if it always felt like summer because we changed public ed up so much that it became real life.
Eileen Lento, education strategist, Intel
Rural schools are perhaps the best place to experiment with digital teaching methods like online courses, since they have trouble offering some types of classes already, said Ms. Lento. Online classes will begin to supplement the physical classroom gradually, she said, but will lead to changes in everything from the schedule of the school day to the architecture of school buildings. “Later, you know, as things evolve and people get used to it, you’ll see more complex changes,” she said.
Ellen - city as school, school as life
David Silvernail, director, Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Education
The technology to change the classroom exists already, said Mr. Silvernail. The challenge is using it effectively. He has been examining the effect of a program in Maine through which all middle school students were given laptop computers. The results varied widely, and the classrooms that used the laptops the most often were not necessarily the most successful. As schools rely more on laptops and mobile devices, it is crucial to determine when students benefit from the presence of the computers and when teachers should put them away, he said.
David - we do have all we need. this can turn on a dime.. if we focus on what matters most.. make that our one common intent - what tech wants
Sunday, July 22, 2012
amy lewark
from her postings on fb
Whoa... taking a very deep breath... this was all so much closer than I ever could have imagined. The shooter graduated from the same graduate university program (UC Riverside Neuroscience) to which I had gained entrance to finish my PhD. I don't think I could ever truly understand what would motivate someone to do something like that, but I have to wonder if disappointment over the job opportunities in the industry played a role at all. Twelve years later, I'm still trying to figure out my place in this world, and I'm grateful for all the friends I've made along the way.
Amy Lewark In a strange twist, I've read that this is the worst shooting since the one at VA Tech, and this morning, Monika Hardy let me know that Jeff Brazil, who has interviewed my kids, and who won the Pulitzer Price for his coverage of that shooting, published her writing on MIT's DMLCentral, which includes a lengthy quote from some writing I did for the TSD Innovation Lab. I'm feeling a bit weirded out by everything. My life is full of strange coincidences. Including that I finally watched the Netflix movie last night that literally has been sitting next to my TV for months... the Tarantino film "Inglorious Basterds" which ends with a theater going up in flames, and snipers taking out the Nazi audience. So, I literally went to bed with that imagery in my head, and then when I woke up, the first thing Erick said to me is that this shooting had happened. I think I am going to need some of that 'nerve tonic' that Dennis the Menace's neighbor always needed.
http://dmlcentral.net/
But perhaps, really, this is a call to action... That the things Monika says in this article are so very important. There were so many other things I did before I became a "scientist" and I looked at the world differently. I'm trying to get that back, get in touch with unconditional love, and art, and release the ideas of perfection that were installed by the school system. I am thankful to my children for helping me see the world as I once did.
Whoa... taking a very deep breath... this was all so much closer than I ever could have imagined. The shooter graduated from the same graduate university program (UC Riverside Neuroscience) to which I had gained entrance to finish my PhD. I don't think I could ever truly understand what would motivate someone to do something like that, but I have to wonder if disappointment over the job opportunities in the industry played a role at all. Twelve years later, I'm still trying to figure out my place in this world, and I'm grateful for all the friends I've made along the way.
Amy Lewark In a strange twist, I've read that this is the worst shooting since the one at VA Tech, and this morning, Monika Hardy let me know that Jeff Brazil, who has interviewed my kids, and who won the Pulitzer Price for his coverage of that shooting, published her writing on MIT's DMLCentral, which includes a lengthy quote from some writing I did for the TSD Innovation Lab. I'm feeling a bit weirded out by everything. My life is full of strange coincidences. Including that I finally watched the Netflix movie last night that literally has been sitting next to my TV for months... the Tarantino film "Inglorious Basterds" which ends with a theater going up in flames, and snipers taking out the Nazi audience. So, I literally went to bed with that imagery in my head, and then when I woke up, the first thing Erick said to me is that this shooting had happened. I think I am going to need some of that 'nerve tonic' that Dennis the Menace's neighbor always needed.
http://dmlcentral.net/
But perhaps, really, this is a call to action... That the things Monika says in this article are so very important. There were so many other things I did before I became a "scientist" and I looked at the world differently. I'm trying to get that back, get in touch with unconditional love, and art, and release the ideas of perfection that were installed by the school system. I am thankful to my children for helping me see the world as I once did.
dmlcentral.net
We have massive research and many evidences available...[ie: Diane Ravitch is declaring a bunch of them here, we’ve gathered particular ones here]…that what we’re doing in the name of public education is not serving us well. Perhaps we declare some new laws in regard to public education, in regard t...
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