Wednesday, February 19, 2014

tweets

colonialism. histories. a conversation worth listening in on. @katemfd on #FutureEd, with @CathyNDavidson: http://t.co/12fKmUDGLa

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bonstewart/status/434509299352481792


Incubating A Worker Cooperative On A Shoestring With Time Banks: http://t.co/ns1vDIGAKn via @youtube

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/434741890424922112


Brits waste 7 million tonnes each year! #foodwaste Why do we still waste so much food at home?http://t.co/SxM2QYHeYQ @guardian

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/EcoInnovators/status/434853771701522432


http://platelicking.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/urban-backyard-food-production-as-a-strategy-for-food-security-in-melbourne/


posted on fb by michel

Can backyards produce enough food to be a major food source for a city?

Here's a study from Melbourne, Australia: 'My research was about urban food production within a 70 km radius of Melbourne CBD. The data collection period ran from July 2012 to Ju
ly 2013. This was deliberately designed to capture inter-seasonal yield. In all, 15 households took part in the research and each participant contributed 12 weeks’ worth of data.

The result was impressive. The collective plot size was 1,096 sq.m. with a total yield of 388.73 kg worth of fruits, vegetables, nuts, honey and meat. A total of 1,015 eggs were also recorded. The study found that backyard food production was capable of producing a great diversity of edibles from common kitchen garden herbs to less commonly cultivated fruits and vegetables, as well as less commercially available varieties like amaranth, apple cucumber, acorn squash, butter squash, babaco, cape gooseberry, edible canna, elderflower, gem squash, loganberry, nettle, oca, orache, purslane, rat-tailed radish, viola flower, warrigal green, white mulberry and yacon. In total, 101 different types of nuts, fruits, vegetables were generated during the study period.'





lost tradition of biblical debt cancellations -by Michael Hudson , http://t.co/b3GbvZYzvqhttp://t.co/a2wJ8LrXcQ #mustread

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/435063632159072256


@zeynep Gezi changed everything: bereaved mothers of activists did not make headlines before. Now, they are writing headlines.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/kilic1960/status/435241081731416065


“The politics, paperwork, meaningless “training,” waste of time and resources, and over/under-involved parents are wearing teachers out,” wrote one survey respondent.
“The workload on teachers continues to increase every year,” wrote another. “There is always extra administrative work that takes away from teaching time. There is also extra testing and reporting… on and on it goes every year.”

With the ever-amazing Hayat Sindi at @i2institute event in Riyadh on the journey from Impossibility to Impact

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/andrew_zolli/status/435314782561128448

Interesting story about an engineer looking to help us have full bars on our phone wherever we gohttp://t.co/pXVxJju5T1

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/royanlee/status/435390434333167616

I admire you but you are out of touch w academics, many of us on social media.  MLA Commons, HASTAC, #FutureEd @NickKristof

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CathyNDavidson/status/435413155296976896




disruptive social innovations break taboos, often taboos we don’t notice, like hidden curriculum in schools http://t.co/NMU98hvL7U #joinus

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski/status/435451261601603585

most of those taboos are about trust. we don’t trust the average human, and we’ve built society around that http://t.co/CP7lqjqX7B #joinus

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski/status/435451528673910785

we don’t trust that people are curious, can design spaces, can drive across plazas, can govern together… http://t.co/CWsiY8EdOW #joinus

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski/status/435453274930425856

Staying alive shouldn't depend on your purchasing power http://t.co/SUC0iP6LVw via @ConversationUK

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/435457293304360960

Wonder why the book and film are called Dirty Wars? Listen to @jeremyscahill's answer on today's @BrianLehrer Show: http://t.co/Bwl4oMcHkO

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DirtyWars/status/435521936139878401

Laura Poitras: “I would love to accept the Polk award in person…but I’m not sure I feel safe to travel to the US.” http://t.co/Bec8qf986i

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/435462223557718017

Uganda President To Sign Law That Jails Gays For Life - Business Insider http://t.co/gC4ZjDj0WD

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/pierre/status/435534392916987904

I had never really thought about the "triple helix": govt, industry, univ/edu. None alone has all necessary resources. #gisw14

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/lancebretthall/status/435534902293827585

We need leaders who recognize that the question is not "how do I win?" but "how can we live together?"http://t.co/YkRjbqqaQO

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Janice_Marchman/status/435538929656143872

Steve Blank @sgblank is very well media trained #gisw14 > bridging the questions into his own key messages :-)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/petervan/status/435569660008742912

@sgblank: biggest surprise of the last 5 years is that 'innovation is everywhere' (global)...silicon valley is a state of mind #gisw14

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SaraJoyPond/status/435570214697041920

The paradox of #innovation: it's only accepted by the public when it becomes imitation. #gisw14 #startups

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JennySnapTech/status/435574142465609728




posted on fb by howard...
This is a VERY interesting and previously untold history. Before multimedia, raves, multi-screen desktops, they were all made possible through a concerted effort by Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, John Cage, the USIS, Buckminster Fuller, the Museum of Modern Art, that started as a response to fascism.


Jajamensan! MT @haxpett: #Karlstad lokal-TV har intervju med @SaraMrtsell för fler kvinnor på @Wikipedia: http://t.co/4Ptov50gak

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SaraMrtsell/status/435759987131158529




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Brayden King @braydenk
@zeynep @alexhanna @SociologicalSci a lot of new papers on "slacktivism," not sure if this study is any better or worse than others in genre
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Brayden King @braydenk
@zeynep @alexhanna what's the study that showed that if people "like" a cause on FB they are less likely to engage in offline activism?
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Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep
@braydenk @alexhanna As far as I know, findings are generally the opposite direction: mashable.com/2013/04/25/pew…
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@zeynep @braydenk @alexhanna Here's the original material ow.ly/tL0MN + archive that elaborates ow.ly/tL0Uy


jerry michalski interview


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10645015/North-Korea-10-starkest-paragraphs-from-UN-report.html







What if learning in Alberta schools looked more like this? #InspiringEd  http://t.co/1qZyiHAyYJ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/joe_bower/status/436206993376698368


So excited about http://t.co/HXAIIGaxm9! Calling educators to join @4pt0schools and @khanacademy to reimagine learning in #NOLA. Apply now!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thinkschools/status/436216149962162176




p://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/google-capital-invests-40m-in-learning-analytics-firm-renaissance-learning-at-1b-valuation/?utm_content=buffer4a9d5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Today, we have the most popular reading software in the world: Accelerated Reader. And with it, we’ve helped teachers inspire millions of children to become lifelong readers and learners. Each and every school day students pass an average of 1.8 million AR Quizzes.
But Accelerated Reader is just one of our award-winning, research-proven solutions helping educators accelerate learning for all. We’ve also created products for math and formative assessment that have been just as ground-breaking as Accelerated Reader. In fact, students completed more than 35 million Accelerated Math assignments and took more than 38 million STAR assessments via our hosted servers in the last school year.

oh my.


"The job of a professor is not the same as 'being smart.'" Very good response to Kristof from @profhansnoel. http://t.co/H6Tz72RbAF

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jacremes/status/436234045546983424


Google eyes fibre expansion in metro areas - http://t.co/Vk0sL9quNd http://t.co/6qtaqEj1IM. Great we need real competition to innovate.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/brucenussbaum/status/436238954480685056


the FLOKSociety project with @mbauwens  an amazing project! 
 http://t.co/SsKaBsByLj

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HackYourPhd/status/436255050328190978


Why We Procrastinate: We think of our future selves as strangers http://t.co/nJVhxdekoZ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/sebpaquet/status/436261797884989440


Facebook wants all your messages, buying messaging giant Whatsapp for 16B http://t.co/elHLeVKJo2#NomNomNom

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/drawsalot/status/436262304305258497


I think it would be very good to have a "if this keeps you up at night, try doing this locally" recommender.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/436268402261254144