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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
cathy davidson & dan ariely
http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2013/02/17/join-our-dukesurprise-course-getting-real-w-profs-cathyndavidson-and
dan - how we deal with randomness, is incredibly important, and we do a really bad job at it.
dan - how we deal with randomness, is incredibly important, and we do a really bad job at it.
bill of rights
http://www.goorulearning.org/gooru/index.g#!/collection/3cde4fde-b0d1-4292-8ac7-161f1e4cc9ae/play/a26f148f-d659-4c2c-b7f8-1d2ca33e28f3
what if it just read:
the right to think for yourself.
?
if everyone truly believed that.. wouldn't that take care of everything else?
1. everyone known by someone
2. everyone talks to themself daily
seems all the rest is built on an assumption of mistrust.. on an paradigm of school (huge applause - because it's the farthest from school - but still seems based on a mindset school taught us - i guess i'm wondering if we can question even that. leave it there - in its simplest form.)
i don't know.
just my ramblings..
what if it just read:
the right to think for yourself.
?
if everyone truly believed that.. wouldn't that take care of everything else?
1. everyone known by someone
2. everyone talks to themself daily
seems all the rest is built on an assumption of mistrust.. on an paradigm of school (huge applause - because it's the farthest from school - but still seems based on a mindset school taught us - i guess i'm wondering if we can question even that. leave it there - in its simplest form.)
i don't know.
just my ramblings..
deb mills scofield interviewing hagel & kaplan
http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/67162/vulnerability-and-trust-leaderships-paradox
saul- vulnerable enough to find that missing puzzle piece
love this on saul - you can't break it.. try more stuff
john - vulnerability/trust breeds tacit knowledge
saul- vulnerable enough to find that missing puzzle piece
love this on saul - you can't break it.. try more stuff
tweets feb 18 - scale the individual
DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub)2/16/13 8:59 AM
Citizenville: How to Take the Townsquare Digital and Reinvent Government
bit.ly/12TRDZQ
 David Cohen (@davidcohen)2/16/13 10:02 AM what's the first month of @techstars like? a founder shares. capitalentrepreneurs.com/ |
I’m starting to fully appreciate the importance of forming real friendships with others in the startup space. When you can’t bullshit each other and can trust telling each other your deepest darkest fears, you form truly strong bonds that help you conquer amazing challenges and grow in profound ways.
It’s one of the biggest lessons I want to take back to Madison with me. Our startup scene and city will grow best when we form more informal relationships with each other outside of work. When we feel more comfortable sharing the realities of running a startup, we can receive and give the best advice. But it’s a two-way street.
lisagansky (@instigating)2/16/13 10:04 AM
Architects, Inventors and Collaborators - the people who drive change via social by Brian Quinn @HuffPostbuff.ly/WQ1hbT
 ReachScale (@ReachScale)2/16/13 10:05 AM Need to Scale: #SocialEnterprises & Community Health bit.ly/socentd #EconDev#HBSABC #SocEnt |
support of social innovation (The New Triple Bottom Line,) we found Verizon Foundation’s new efforts laudable: an innovative step that ensures that technology is actually used for good. In their words, "For the first time at Verizon we are integrating our technology solutions and philanthropy to accelerate change in healthcare and improve patient outcomes.
sounds like public Ed.. improve outcomes.. decided by whom? sounds like a proving issue
perhaps instead.. we improve patients.. meaning all people.. meaning.. scale the individual sounds like a people issue
Social entrepreneurs are infamously unwilling to wait on governments, and nearly one-fifth of them focus on healthcare, water and sanitation. The remaining 80 percent innovate with business, technology and finance models. Many options for economic empowerment are available -- as exemplified by leaders like Professor Yunus and by a million or more social entrepreneurs around the globe who are actively exploring new approaches and better solutions.
The questions that must be answered include:
- Are these social entrepreneurs important to expanding primary health systems across Africa and Asia?
- What role should they play in addressing needs around food production and nutrition, education, water and sanitation, technology innovation and entrepreneurship?
- How can philanthropists, non-profits, corporations and local and national governments decide where to invest for most impact?
- And finally, how can we share innovations that create income in communities and enable sustainable payments to CHWs, teachers and other critical social capital developers?
i recently heard a healthcare professional say.. bottom line... listen to your gut.
that sounds like unschooling
that sounds like a means to equity. today.
no need for prep or training or these essential questions.. (as in common core essential questions.. as in above )
the only essential question.. every day.. am. do ing what matters.. or what matters.
then unleashing people from all the research/mandates/assumptions/
free people up ... to listen to their guts
today I am alive.
this is not ridiculous
Most social entrepreneurs start with a very personal obsession to improve lives by solving a challenge or inequality. They prefer to spend as little time as possible fundraising, and often they bring innovations to the table that decades of nonprofit work have not uncovered.
Social enterprises typically get off the ground with a small loan, such as the $36 that funded Professor Yunus and his innovation of microfinance. As Yunus points out in every speech he gives, “When I saw a problem, I started a business to solve it.
on loan to us ...was kids' minds..
spaces. and resources.
Microfinance has demonstrated that the leadership of several global innovators-- combined with support from multiple NGO and private sector players with sustainable and therefore scalable business models -- can aggregate to billions of dollars. AsBusinessWeek described the Nobel Peace Prize win of 2005:“Grameen Bank, a leading advocate for the world's poor that has lent more than $5.1 billion to 5.3 million people. The bank is built on Yunus' conviction that poor people can be both reliable borrowers and avid entrepreneurs.”
The drive to organize these portfolios can come from the goal to empower local entrepreneurs to create income or from support for the concept of scaling sectors, as recommended by the Omidyar Network in Priming the Pump.
scaling sectors?
part of our demise..? no?
The annual cost of specific disease control in the next three years is perhaps $6 billion, and another $6 billion per year for health-system expansion. The total, $12 billion per year for an expanded Global Fund, might seem unrealistically large compared to the $3 billion per year spent now. But total annual funding of $12 billion is really very modest, representing around 0.033 percent (three cents per $100) of the donor countries’ GNP. This is a tiny sum, which could be easily mobilized if donor countries were serious.
this idea.. yes.. but not about a sector.. about scaling individual people.
yes .. even 12 bill is nothing if we are clever...
20mill could model it. so people could see... believe...
For example, provision of clean water promises freedom for women and the option for girls to attend school. Meanwhile revolving funds enable women to far
see: now attend school? like in schooling the world... like in Kampala?
we free from horrendous conditions... then place people in a box.. with a belief that they aren't good enough till a piece of paper says so..
holt thinking... everyone has enough today.. nothing should be compulsory .. or touted as the ath to success
what if the only thing.. is... scale each individual... via curiosity
then you have 7bill working on those five.. plus
 ✜ Stephen Ransom (@ransomtech)2/18/13 7:36 AM @ryanbretag An “engaged” studentjoebower.org/2013/02/an-stu… Less than three years ago, I graduated high school. I was a driven student who scored a 100 per cent average, served as the students’ council president and class valedictorian, earned over 16 scholarships/awards, etc. The bottom line is that I was a high achiever, but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA. It was only until a couple of years ago, when I began to question my own educational career, that I realized something profound: The academic portion of my high school life was spent in the wrong way, with cloudy motivations. I treated schooling and education synonymously. I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity. |
I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity.
Jonathan Fields (@jonathanfields)2/18/13 7:36 AM
Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing? shar.es/Y9UkM
“The question I ask myself like almost every day is -
message her‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’ Click to tweet
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: You Can't Pray a Lie
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: You Can't Pray a Lie: You Can't Pray a Lie (M.A. Reilly, 2012) I saw this tweet this morning from Michele Hush ( @hush6 ). My favorite section of th...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
tweets feb 16 - connected adjacency
 Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)2/16/13 1:39 AM The Bridge wp.me/pustL-wD |
Saul Kaplan (@skap5)2/16/13 4:54 AM
@HelenWalters Congrats on your new gig with TED. Now that's an idea worth spreading!
great example of working your way in spaces - http://redefineschool.com/632/helen-waters/
Stephen Dill (@srdill)2/16/13 7:52 AM
RT @DanielPink Does the “school cliff” matter more than the fiscal cliff?danpink.com/2013/01/does-t…
| DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub) 2/16/13 7:53 AM Digital Literacy Education for Teachers? bit.ly/WOq1Sr via @CommonSenseNews oh my.. serious. we need to get serious about play. about curiosity.. not risk aversion. we are masters at risk aversion.. how could we be more secure..? (besides setting people free to learn how to learn.. to regain their curiosity/hunger let's not fool ourselves anymore.. the riskiest thing issuing it safe. ESP when we spend all our resources on it... ESP our greatest resource.. people. we can't wait |
Seth's Blog: Is a famous thinker better than a great one?
Seth's Blog: Is a famous thinker better than a great one?
The desire to fit in often overwhelms our curiosity.
The desire to fit in often overwhelms our curiosity.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
bill penuel & kris gutierrez - assessing connected learning
http://connectedlearning.tv/kris-gutierrez-bill-penuel-assessing-connected-learning-outcomes
bill - the activities the choose to (join?)
kris - learning as movement. how do we know it when we see it.
[so - do we need to see it?]
(illich) - we are spending so much time trying to figure out how to deliver things. because (holt) we are assuming we can't change the law.
if we would pause to realize how many of us there are ..
we did par three years ago.
key - spaces of permission with nothing to prove.
not about monitoring things..
lovely lovely people.
but..
we're missing it.
we're spinning our wheels.
as kids/people suffocate/die.
bill - the activities the choose to (join?)
kris - learning as movement. how do we know it when we see it.
[so - do we need to see it?]
(illich) - we are spending so much time trying to figure out how to deliver things. because (holt) we are assuming we can't change the law.
if we would pause to realize how many of us there are ..
we did par three years ago.
key - spaces of permission with nothing to prove.
not about monitoring things..
lovely lovely people.
but..
we're missing it.
we're spinning our wheels.
as kids/people suffocate/die.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
tweets feb 13 - reach-across scale
 Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)2/13/13 4:18 AM #Reframe: The New Triple Bottom Line csrwire.com/blog/posts/271… by@ReachScale |
"Over the past forty years, over 200,000 nonprofits were established. Only 144 achieved budgets of 50 million (USD) or more. Of that group fewer than 15 were scaled through corporate financial contributions. In other words, corporate funding has scaled one nonprofit every three years."
First is the fragmentation of social responsibility activities in most companies. Executives talk about the need to track involvement in major issues (pensions, training, employee healthcare, etc.) as well as environmental impact (carbon, water, energy, packaging, etc.). BUt treated as individual issues, the solutions often receive inadequate attention for any comprehensive solutions..
But treated as individual issues, the solutions often receive inadequate attention for any comprehensive solution
The genie is out of the bottle on these issues. These days the scorecards are being kept by a variety of independent monitoring organizations.
While some companies are still in denial, the smart corporate players are partnering with the scorekeepers to assist them in mainstreaming their "do less harm" commitments. The recent comprehensive fleet mileage targets agreement between the US Government and the global auto companies (highlighted in a recent editorial by Tom Friedman) represents an example of this trend that will continue across many ecosystems.an - oh my.. but wait.. he's on it
Donations and volunteer hours are no longer newsworthy unless presented in the context of strategic commitments to solve real problems.huge - in all realms... ask any kid.. work/play that matters matters
Achieving profit through social innovation and collaboration requires new partners that are assembled from all over the globe
Achieving profit through social innovation and collaboration requires new partners that are assembled from all over the globe. These partnerships are generating profitable and sustainable innovations by offering products at price points that a large segment of the pyramid can afford. Ideally these solutions are marketable because they also result in behavior change. The creation of delivery systems for clean water to rural villages is an example of a rapid behavior-change solution.
yes. dear Ed. (and everything/body/me)
revisiting this one:
| ReachScale (@ReachScale) 2/13/13 6:13 AM MT @writer2go @NadineHack: gr8 piece by @ReachScale on @CSRwire WEF: Where will “Household Names” in#SocEnt come from? shar.es/Y4N2T |
Why aren’t the big players flocking in to scale these enterprises that are solving problems and could be doing so profitably when they reach scale?As with other innovation this selection is just the beginning. From here, testing which models and management teams can absorb talent and capital with continuous learning and adapting to new cultures and systems becomes critical. Experimentation now consumes the reallocated investment,
beginning with select innovators funded to test and learn alongside “go to market” partners who already have testing infrastructure in place.
Experimentation now consumes the reallocated investment, beginning with select innovators funded to test and learn alongside “go to market” partners who already have testing infrastructure in place.
Now operating in 11 states across India, it is the first industrial social enterprise to tailor affordable products, local training and capacity-building to diseases endemic among the rural poor, which are frequently ignored by the country’s mainstream healthcare providers.
so.. what if it's less about their healthcare/disease being ignored.. and more about their ideas/dreams/curiosities being heard - so the disease isn't even happening, healthcare isn't even (are hardly) an issue
Innovation and social solution success, both in the U.S. and globally, will depend on accessing, scaling and even importing the most active global innovation sources. Working with social entrepreneurs beyond contests and fellowships can leverage corporate scaling capabilities to enable measurable solutions that improve communities and economies creating markets today and in the future. Isn't that the goal?
yes. that again..
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
tweets feb 12 - free school under bridge - 7 bill start ups
Documentally (@Documentally)2/11/13 4:27 PM
A free school under a bridge in India.. photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/
| ReachScale (@ReachScale) 2/12/13 6:06 AM Gr8 group of UN Global #Entrepreneurs in @FastCompany Next yr love 2see hybrid/for-profit #SocEnt scaling globally: fastcompany.com/3005683/ |
Already," says Elizabeth McKee Gore, the UN Foundation's first resident entrepreneur and manager of the council, "they've left a legacy for how we go about dissecting a problem, bring resources to it, and bring it to
The challenge for the group will be to move beyond pure marketing and spread the entrepreneurial spirit to the people that the UN is actually trying to help. Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a catalyst for economic growth in poverty-stricken countries. Israel, which teems with startup talent, sponsored a UN resolution calling for the organization to encourage entrepreneurship in the developing world; it passed in December.
The council's new members aren't waiting for March. Neil Blumenthal, co-CEO of game-changing eyewear maker Warby Parker, has helped forge a relationship between the UN andCommunity Enterprise Solutions, a not-for-profit that trains women in low-income areas to start their own businesses. Now he's interested in using the UN's clout to push policies that are friendlier to entrepreneurs. "There are bureaucracies in business, government, and at the UN," Blumenthal says. "But entrepreneurs don't see that obstacle as insurmountable. It's something we have to work through to create change." And to pass on to others what they know.
 Shannon Miller (@shannonmmiller)2/12/13 6:06 AM "Let's Move" Comics....A Collaborative Project With PE To Celebrate #DLDay ow.ly/hDLUn #vanmeter#tlchat #iowatl |
and our brilliant experts.... are doing this (which is great.. but imagine if they weren't tied to compulsory curricular directives - or even - if they weren't driven by some credential - some getting-in-ness).. delivering and receiving.. and too often - once graded - then trashing.
7bill experts.. waiting to be unleashed 
JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein)2/11/13 6:18 AM
New Post: Video Games and Social Emotional Learningwp.me/pKlio-18K #gbl
instaGrok (@InstaGrok)2/11/13 4:25 PM
Research the highly debated issue of #school choice here: instagrok.com/grok/?query=sc…#edreform #edchat
Melissa Scott (@mmreesescott)2/11/13 4:23 PM
“To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted."~ John Holt
Dr. Price-Mitchell (@DrPriceMitchell)2/11/13 4:27 PM
What Alfie Kohn thinks of parent involvement shrd.by/5JdlEZ#edchat #ptchat
Alfie Kohn says, “While everyone wants parents to be engaged with what their children are doing in school, what matters more is the nature of that engagement. There’s a big difference between a parent who’s focused on what the child is doing – that is, on the learning itself – and a parent who’s focused on how well the child is doing
George Veletsianos (@veletsianos)2/11/13 4:28 PM
RT @LNM_Monash: Evidence of an ed-tech slow-down (in Europe at least) with the cancellation of the LWF 2013 conference- bit.ly/WQSqXy
Monday, February 11, 2013
tweets feb 11 - good models
 Seecantrill (@Seecantrill)2/11/13 6:11 AM "The district’s best educators were asked to design a curriculum based on evidence, not hunch"nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opi… #nwp #philofounded |
Cognitive and noncognitive, thinking and feeling; here, this line vanishes. The good teacher is always on the lookout for both kinds of lessons, always aiming to reach both head and heart. “My goal is to do for these kids what I do with my own children,” the teacher, Susana Rojas, tells me. “It’s all about exposure to concepts — wide, na
rrow, long, short. I bring in breads from different countries. ‘Let’s do a pie chart showing which one you liked the best.’ I don’t ask them to memorize 1, 2, 3 — I could teach a monkey to count.”A quarter-century ago, fear of a state takeover catalyzed a transformation. The district’s best educators were asked to design a curriculum based on evidence, not hunch. Learning by doing replaced learning by rote. Kids who came to school speaking only Spanish became truly bilingual, taught how to read and write in their native tongue before tackling English. Parents were enlisted in the cause. Teachers were urged to work together, the superstars mentoring the stragglers and coaches recruited to add expertise. Principals were expected to become educational leaders, not just disciplinarians and paper-shufflers.
Ivan Illich (@IvanIllich2)2/11/13 6:14 AM
If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
 John Robinson (@21stprincipal)2/11/13 6:14 AM The 21st Century Principal: Educational Blogging Is About "Earning Your Readers Attention" bit.ly/X2flMo#edchat #ncadmin |
in providing any kind of web content for others to consume. Content is important. In the end, we have no choice but do what Handley and Chapman suggest: "we have to earn the attention of people," and that is done by providing them with the kinds of content they are looking for. That maxim is true for those who are educational bloggers too.
perhaps most are looking for - interconnectedness..
how that looks feels.. everyday
Saul Kaplan (@skap5)2/11/13 6:15 AM
Odd that analysts don't include tablets and smart phones in the PC market since mobile has put the personal into computing.
like... odd that Ed doesn't include.. personal thinking..
Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya)2/11/13 6:17 AM
#FCMostInnovative list is out!!!
fastcompany.com/section/most-
| JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein) 2/11/13 6:18 AM New Post: Video Games and Social Emotional Learningwp.me/pKlio-18K #gbl |
graphic fits perfectly with 1-2-2
greg hill - bravo man...
Efficiency as cul-de-sacInstead of the smart city, perhaps we should be more preoccupied with smart citizens. The smart city vision tends to focus on infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, looking for a client amidst the city governments that procure or plan such things. But the city is something else. The city is its people. We don’t make cities in order to make buildings and infrastructure. We make cities in order to come together, to create wealth, culture, more people. As social animals, we create the city to be with other people, to work, live, play. Buildings, vehicles and infrastructure are mere enablers, not drivers. They are a side-effect, a by-product, of people and culture. Of choosing the city.The smart city vision, however, is focused on these second order outcomes, and often with one overriding motivation: efficiency. Yet the city’s primary raison d’être is to be found amidst its citizens. If we look there, we find that there is more, much more, to urban life than efficiency. In fact, many of those primary drivers are intrinsically inefficient, or at least at a tangent to the entire idea of efficiency. Can a city be “smart” and inefficient at the same time? Perhaps this is a fundamental question, un-voiced by smart city advocates.
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thinking we need spaces that aren't
- a gathering of same aged people only
- spaces of compulsion
- spaces of proof
thinking spaces need to be
- 100% permission to experiment
- 100% time
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