Sunday, October 20, 2013

tweets

Information access is the cheapest educational commodity. School's primary responsibility is democratizing access to experience & expertise.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/garystager/status/391285445205573632

Humbling/fascinating how much a TodaysMeet backchannel teaches me re: the disconnect btwn what I think I'm saying and what ppl seem to hear.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/willrich45/status/391347488277282816

From the explosion of life in the "Burgess Shale's" to choosing the "Shale" Google glass: http://t.co/yLcQU26yxL (by @michaelgarfield)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/391240349743472640

Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos)
10/18/13 7:17 AM
Let's all be mini-VCs: crowdfunding for equity is getting closer (!!)businessweek.com/news/2013-10-1…
The plan, targeted for an Oct. 23 vote by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would allow such companies to use so-called equity crowdfunding without having to check that a person’s investment is a greater share of their income or net worth than allowed by law, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because the proposal hasn’t been made public.
The crowdfunding rule, authorized as part of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, is intended to benefit small businesses and startups too small to attract funding from banks or venture capitalists. It may also boost business for Internet funding portals such as Kickstarter Inc., IndieGoGo Inc., and CircleUp Network Inc. that are used by startups to raise money.
“What we are talking about are companies that in all likelihood are not going to be winners, and they are being invested in by people who clearly don’t have the expertise and financial smarts of venture capitalists,” Turner said in a phone interview. “So you put those together and you are creating a real opportunity for scams and fraud and significant losses.”
Crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion in 2012 and funded more than 1 million projects, according to research firm Massolution. Crowdfunding has financed technology projects such as the Pebble smartwatch, which raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter to develop a watch that works with an iPhone or Android-powered device.
Scott Smith (@KLOVEscott)
10/18/13 7:13 AM
Saddened by news that #Slavery is still growing, 30 million people now and 1/2 are in #India ! We must#EndIt #FreedomForTheLeastOfThese
Scott Smith (@KLOVEscott)
10/18/13 7:17 AM
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” - William Wilburfoce 
#AntiSlaveryDay #EndIt
Inspired by @humpherlinks, We've donated our 404 page to display photos of missing children. Pretty cool campaign:https://t.co/A68k8Y82f2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ThunderclapIt/status/390878364770127872
Steven W. Anderson (@web20classroom)
10/19/13 7:24 AM
Neat site. bit.ly/19hfvrC. Discover tweets from around the world in realtime. #edscape

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
10/19/13 7:25 AM
Mongolia seeks to develop its #oil shale deposits.ow.ly/pOwSi


actual public school students are already so far behind affluent districts it is scary, and the gulf is widening with every smartphone upgrade and each new app tha

ha.. this is the flip...
behind what we've deemed important..
many we are claiming to be behind - are strides ahead in what matters.

oh my.


What about someone who can’t PRINT? In 2013 that is like saying “I have never owned shoes.” 

oh double my.

john thackara (@johnthackara)
10/19/13 7:56 AM
'Nomad's Land' - great name for projects re-imagining public space in Paris. More hereautrement.com/ouvrage/le-gra… (in French) @EdAutrement

Barry Wellman (@barrywellman)
10/19/13 7:57 AM
.@kxande2 @lrainie A personal community is the set of active ties from individual's standpoint-some of whom might not know each other.
Barry Wellman (@barrywellman)
10/19/13 7:59 AM
.@jasonnolan @kxande2 @lrainie And I think of personal community as the networks we use to reach out - quite the opposite

GianpieroPetriglieri (@gpetriglieri)
10/19/13 8:31 AM
This is what happens when you ask math to 'prove' that which belongs to the realm of the heart.is.gd/on1DrZ
2002, with a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Penn Resiliency Program (part of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center) began a four-year study of positive psychology’s effects on ninth-graders at a high school outside of Philadelphia
In 2002, with a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Penn Resiliency Program (part of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center) began a four-year study of positive psychology’s effects on ninth-graders at a high school outside of Philadelphia. Six years later, in 2008, Seligman entered into a far-reaching collaboration with the U.S. Army, resulting in a $125 million government-funded “Army-wide” program known as Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF).
oh my.
this much money.. and they don't even step outside predetermined sample group

Recently, however, it has been reported that CSF has done little to reduce PTSD. Nevertheless, the government is expanding the $50-million-per-year program.
The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World http://t.co/Lzf3o7k2pX via @imgur

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/VenessaMiemis/status/392120372130111488

yeah.
oh my.

The theory was bolder than bold: Mankind, whether working alone or in groups, is governed by a mathematical tipping point, one specified by a ratio of 2.9013 positive to 1 negative emotions. When the tipping point is crested, a kind of positive emotional chaos ensues—“that flapping of the butterfly’s wing,” as Fredrickson puts it—resulting in human “flourishing.” When it is not met (or if a limit of 11.6346 positive emotions is exceeded, as there is a limit to positivity), everything comes grinding to a halt, or locks into stereotyped patterns like water freezing into ice.
nonlinear aspects of fluid mechanics, a subdiscipline of fluid dynamics—or the study of liquids and gases in motion.

He dug out a famed 1963 paper by the American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz on nonlinear aspects of fluid mechanics, a subdiscipline of fluid dynamics—or the study of liquids and gases in motion
oh my.. Meredith..

"360 deaths, reopens the debate in #Europe on illegal immigration." http://t.co/9DnMvALaHO

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/globalvoices/status/392157347881439232