André Campbell (@andre_campbell)7/29/14 6:02 AM
Why Google's best leaders aren't Stanford grads with perfect SATs.bit.ly/1zpI2HX
John Cusack (@johncusack)7/25/14 5:28 PM
Human the new radical mark - Arabs are Semites too - all are human = your a radical for not normalizing murder @MarkRuffalo @dailykos
MW Personal Finance (@MarketWatchPF)7/29/14 6:50 AM
White-collar crime does pay - up to $5,000 a speech. on.mktw.net/1nQIvjDpic.twitter.com/riqe1jlAcE
Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)7/29/14 6:55 AM
Do Our Kids Really Need To Learn How To Code?p.ost.im/NuaX9h
In the mid-19th century an English mathematician named George Boole created a basic logical system that could be encoded into ones and zeros. Nearly a century later, Alan Turing proved this logic could be used to create a universal computer and Claude Shannon showed how to encode that logic into electrical switches called logic gates.
Patrick Meier (@PatrickMeier)7/29/14 6:55 AM
From Russia with Love: A Match.com for Disaster Responsebit.ly/1AtnMXv
Marcella Maguire (@Cella65)7/28/14 3:05 PM
Four years ago at #NAEH10 @cmtysolutions challenged us to know our vulnerable neighbors. Now 105,000 are housed. pic.twitter.com/9Ud4WDuzKk
nicco mele (@nicco)7/29/14 7:00 AM
Crowdsouce mobile phone signal ratings to figure out the best carriers in your neighborhood: bit.ly/1nR2n4E#mobile #crowdsource
 Debbie Birchett (@debbie_birchett)7/29/14 7:00 AM My first Blendspace lesson - creating a space for math study guides for my spec ed kiddos!! #mgsd14siFUN!!! #lovemyteam |
oh my.
David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter)7/29/14 7:22 AM
If you're a journalist writing a #sharkweek story, let me help you find a shark scientist to interview! Whysharksmatter at gmail. Please RT!
Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord)7/29/14 7:29 AM
"Stop chasing Finland -- or Singapore. Start redesigning schools." @willrich45 at #ettsummit#ettleadership
We are looking for some great, motivated people to join our team @MartinProsperiT - http://t.co/ggbZKeD2Ls
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roaming autodidacts don't worry about upward mobility — they're already there. - @tressiemcphd #berkman
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we focus on education policy, not economic policy because "we know education won't push back" - @tressiemcphd #berkman
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"roaming autodidacts" - ideal, self-motivated learner, embedded in the future but disembedded from place — @tressiemcphd #berkman
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'Video gives you a sense of the person in ways that other media don't.' - @hrheingold #DMLTrust LIVE onhttp://t.co/4bBZwG0NWw
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Bill Viola: Cameras are soul keepers
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there's nothing more important than being trusted. we edit out the people we don't trust. - @Jonathan_Worth #dmltrust #connectedlearning
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@funnymonkey note this exchange earlier today: https://t.co/WcAiHaDeLr
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What 6.9 million clicks tell us about how to fix online education | MIT News Office http://t.co/LpV5PYI0t0
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Sierra Leone's top Ebola doctor dies of Ebola
A hero beyond any heroism
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Very terribly saddened.
#ajam #ebola #health
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A hero beyond any heroism
http://t.co/T5fJY87UGW
Very terribly saddened.
#ajam #ebola #health
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I say, woot & amen: "The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning." You Are Not Late, by @kevin2kellyhttps://t.co/E05kmnhkMQ
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Democracy Now! (@democracynow)
7/30/14 6:23 AM
LIVE: Watch our interview with Rabbi Henry Siegman about the situation in Israel and Gaza.democracynow.org pic.twitter.com/nqzZX6YOTg
There is no more determined hacker…than a 12-year-old who has a computer."
Are you listening? #edchat #EdTech https://t.co/CHrsCiHX53
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Dougald Hine (@dougald)
7/30/14 6:22 AM
“Why don’t you just go back to Britain & tell your government to stop supporting Israel when they kill our kids?” blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-
Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)
7/30/14 6:23 AM
Economics for Orcs: how can virtual world economies inform national economies and those who design them? | ow.ly/zKg59
Dougald Hine (@dougald)7/30/14 6:22 AM
“Why don’t you just go back to Britain & tell your government to stop supporting Israel when they kill our kids?” blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-
Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)7/30/14 6:23 AM
Economics for Orcs: how can virtual world economies inform national economies and those who design them? | ow.ly/zKg59
Just like national economies, virtual economies incentivize certain behaviours and discourage others; they ask people to make choices between mutually exclusive options; they ask people to coordinate. They can also propagate value systems setting out what modes of participation are considered valuable. These virtual economies are now built into many of the most popular areas of the Internet, including social media sites and knowledge commons — with their systems of artificially scarce likes, stars, votes, and badges. Understanding these economies is therefore crucial to anyone who is interested in the social dynamics and power relations of digital media today.
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But in game economies, the economic problem doesn’t really exist. The needs that players experience are contrived, created by positioning otherwise useless goods (magic swords) as desirable status items. The scarcity of resources is likewise artificial, enforced through programme code. If games designers wanted to solve the economic problem, they could do it with a few keystrokes; no markets or other economic institutions are required for this purpose.
Different multiplayer game economies have different aims, but one key objective stands out: the economy helps create and hold together the social fabric of the game. Regular interaction generates interpersonal ties and trust. Having people consume the fruits of one’s digital labour generates a sense of meaning, a sense of a role to play in the community. Division of labour and the resulting mutual interdependence moreover creates solidarity and social cohesion. In short, the economy can act as a wonderful glue holding people together.
Division of labour and the resulting mutual interdependence moreover creates solidarity and social cohesion. In short, the economy can act as a wonderful glue holding people together.
The social fabric is important to game developers, because the stronger the ties between players, the longer the players will keep playing (and paying fees). Some games developers expend considerable resources in their own style of economic research, experimenting with different exchange mechanisms and institutions to find the designs that really strengthen the social fabric. When we examine the resulting virtual economies we can see that their design choices are often very different from the choices that a conventional economist would make.
I will give an example. One aspect of designing a market is designing an exchange mechanism: the concrete mechanism through which the buyer and the seller meet, settle on a price and quantity, and execute the transaction. The simplest exchange mechanism is two people meeting face to face to negotiate a trade, and then exchanging the goods on the spot. A more sophisticated mechanism is an online auction, like eBay. Stock markets use an even more sophisticated mechanism, where participants submit buy and sell offers, these are matched by an algorithm, and trades are executed automatically.
Given that many exchange mechanisms are possible, what kind of an exchange mechanism should be build into your market? When governments and companies create markets they usually turn to microeconomists specializing in this kind of mechanism design. The microeconomist’s answer is that you should choose the exchange mechanism that is most efficient, in the sense of allocating goods optimally and minimizing all transaction costs: in the best case it may not even be necessary for the buyer and the seller to know each others’ identities.
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Games economists, in contrast, tend to favour exchange mechanisms that involve social interaction; often through a virtual face-to-face meeting, where the tedious parts (explaining item characteristics) are automated, but negotiation over prices and quantities is conducted manually. Some locations in the virtual world often spontaneously emerge as sort of bazaars, where buyers and sellers congregate to search for deals. These double as social hubs where people come to meet friends and put on performances and displays, thereby building social capital. One might later consider one’s trading acquaintances when putting together a team for some quest.
More sophisticated exchange mechanisms, such as auction houses and the commodity spot markets in EVE Online, are also common in games, but they also avoid completely displacing social trade networks. In EVE Online, players must either move around in space or use their social networks to obtain price information from neighboring localities. This way, EVE Online’s developers have struck a balance between efficiency and social ties. One thing that virtual economies can teach is to look for other objectives besides efficiency and output as variables that need to be maximized in an economic system.
Second, even in that greater part of the world where the economic problem still remains acute, it is not the case that we should focus on it exclusively. Poor countries should not have to go through social disintegration to reach economic affluence. Third, as I have already mentioned, games and virtual economies have become significant phenomena in their own right. Their creators are smart people who have developed many economic insights of their own. They are eager for knowledge on how to better design and operate these economies, but conventional economic advice that focuses solely on efficiency fails to address their needs. Economists and economic sociologists should widen their research to develop answers that satisfy the needs of virtual economy designers – and also of a more ‘social’ national economy.
Second, even in that greater part of the world where the economic problem still remains acute, it is not the case that we should focus on it exclusively. Poor countries should not have to go through social disintegration to reach economic affluence.
are we listening to thar..
autodidact s. all of us
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Democracy Now! (@democracynow)7/30/14 6:23 AM
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Federal Student Aid (@FAFSA)7/29/14 8:20 PM
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Peter Gow (@pgow)7/30/14 6:24 AM
When the College Admissions Battle Starts at Age 3 nyti.ms/1towDrs via@UpshotNYT
so we zoom out from ivy league obsession..
and realize 2 needs matter more..
John Maeda (@johnmaeda)7/30/14 6:30 AM
Technology is what it does. Design is what it does for *me*/*us*.
CBSDenver (@CBSDenver)7/30/14 6:30 AM
Amazon offers customized, 3-D printed products: cbsloc.al/1lcZaZ4#CBS4Mornings
Democracy Now! (@democracynow)7/28/14 10:20 PM
Prof. Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen To Be A "Racist Apartheid State" With U.S. Support owl.li/zGaMqpic.twitter.com/F33EWtU8HT #Gaza
My Dream Design Curriculum:
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