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Are there "preventable" #edu errors? MT @vkhosla: Preventable medical errors #3 killer after heart disease, cancer.http://t.co/j4PI8GamO9

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thinkschools/status/491623816758849536

http://www.fastcompany.com/3033239/the-future-of-work/weve-been-thinking-about-talent-the-wrong-way-all-along

My keynote from #blc14 has been posted in case anyone is interested. http://t.co/KNfHKI08pZ #fb #edtech #networks

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/courosa/status/491666185209905152

@audreywatters the last few days have struck home for me that we need to spend time developing people, not content. Disciplines of learning

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/gsiemens/status/491719268048707584

@KateMfD @audreywatters in the vein spiritual disciplines - i.e. beyond a practice. More like a way of "being"

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/gsiemens/status/491723975035072514

http://thrivingresilience.org/trcc-overview/

City, school district officials discuss collaborating on new programs http://t.co/LYT1gTJAkw

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/reporterherald/status/491802913270800385

councilor Troy Krenning — an attorney who requested staff bring back information about youth offender programs — said teen court defeats the purpose of true restorative justice programs, which take kids out of the court system completely.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/21/were-heading-into-a-jobless-future-no-matter-what-the-government-does/

prep for uncertainty..

by following whimsy.. swimming in vulnerability of context.. improv.. et al

http://99u.com/articles/29651/maria-popova-staying-present-and-grounded-in-the-age-of-information-overload?utm_content=buffere1b0a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Jorge Barba @jorgebarba

RT @nilofer: "we often confuse the doing for the being" - @brainpicker 
bit.ly/1jUwQ2h

Arne Duncan (@arneduncan)

7/22/14 6:24 AM

Voters highly value #earlyed & improving public schools – candidates across the spectrum need to pay attention: trove.com/me/content/XZ8…];

Sixty percent of Republicans and 84 percent of Democrats supported a description of the proposal under consideration by Congress to “provide ten billion dollars per year for ten years in grants to states to provide all low and moderate income four year olds with voluntary access to high-quality preschool programs” as well as to fund “voluntary high quality early education and child care for infants and toddlers, as well as home visiting and parent education.”

we have no scarcity.. in money

just no focus

no glue (siemens)

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
7/23/14 6:30 AM
"Higher ed, in fact, needs to lead the evidence-based resistance to Common Core..." — Paul Thomasdisq.us/8jdmxc @biblioracle

One of the troubling components of the CCSSI is the stipulation that, once adopted, the wording of the standards cannot be amended, although states are allowed to add 15% more text.

perfect prep/modeling for future...

dang.

The authors of the standards failed to incorporate most of the committee’s suggestions. But the CCSSI, as teachers and students now encounter it on the Web, is a complex and generically hybrid text, open to interpretation and translation. Members of the MLA have been interpreting the CCSSI document since its initial rollout and have arrived at strikingly different conclusions, which were evident at the sessions on the Common Core at the 2012 and 2013 conventions.

sorry. not sorry.

spinach or rock...?

Phil Shapiro (@philshapiro)
7/23/14 6:51 AM
Open source would allow libraries to offer online live video reference service analogous to Amazon's Mayday service. Which library first?

Spent: Looking For Change (Official Trailer) | American Express: http://t.co/CSTpe8ph2S via @YouTube > thx for the headsup @brettking

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/petervan/status/491992814570721281

.@PedroANoguera says programs for boys won't have an impact if they focus solely on mentorship:http://t.co/yHvRb3Goto

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nyusteinhardt/status/491963452999491585

Place Leaders (@PlaceLeaders)
7/23/14 5:28 AM
Smart city initiatives incredibly valuable for place & city mgmt @CityofPerth progressing with@IBMSmartCities > goo.gl/alerts/74Rs

Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw)
7/23/14 6:53 AM
Me too! RT @kshjensen: Did I mention I have 2.5 working days left & then two weeks holiday?#anticipation

why this....?

can we change that? is that not our means to energy..?

Remember: whenever you hear there’s a shortage of humans (or food), it is almost always a code for shortage of money. (Modern famines are also almost always a shortage of money, not food). Modern shortages of “labor” are almost always a shortage of willingness to pay well, or a desire to avoid hiring the “wrong” kind of people.

t’s also crucial work: economists estimate a good kindergarten teacher is worth about $320,000 a year, when measured as adult outcomes of those children she teaches. (And yes, devalued emotional labor is mostly a female job around the world—and the gendered nature of this reality is a whole other post).

And the argument, now is that we should turn care over to machines as well, because, there is a “shortage of humans”.

What are seven billion people supposed to do? Scour Task Rabbit hoping that the few percent who will have money to purchase services have some desires that still require a human?