Friday, March 9, 2012

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Seth's Blog: Sovereignty and the new world--the end of nations?

jennifer pahlka

permissionless

open

generative

tim o'reilly - govt is what we do together that we can't do alone

politics is not changing, govt is changing

digital meeting physical

govt getting in on crowdsourcing

govt as platform - to help selves and help others

this other thing... this bureaucracy, where the real work of govt happens, we need to engage with the machinery of govt.

strengthening civil society...

avg age of fellows 28..

have grown up taking their voices for granted.. not fighting over who gets to speak, they all get to speak. so they aren't all bent on speaking,, they are doing.

are we going to be a crowd of voices, or also a crowd of hands...?

marriage of this and school: collaboratory

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, which works with talented web professionals and cities around the country to promote public service and reboot government. She spent eight years at CMP Media where she led the Game Group, responsible for GDC, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com; there she also launched the Independent Games Festival and served as executive director of the International Game Developers Association. Recently, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, CA with her daughter and six chickens.

http://codeforamerica.org/

peace corp for geeks

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

cities

http://downtownproject.com/2012/ed-glaeser-on-cities-las-vegas-the-future-of-downtown/

“Cities at their best are systems and neighborhoods that enable lots of choices for people to live

while Glaeser does see reason for optimism Downtown, he notes that one key challenge for urban development here remains that of education and amenities within the city’s core for families with children. “In the long run, I continue to wonder how this will work for parents. The amenities that are needed by parents, who are a big part of the innovative world, are just very different. Bars are less important, even art galleries may be less important. Schools become incredibly important. And cities throughout this country have labored long and hard to actually make up for this incredible schooling problem that our system of schooling has created. That feels like a challenge,” he explains.

“Urban economy is not lead by city hall. It’s lead by ordinary people from the ground up coming up with new ideas and fulfilling their dreams.”

leverage each other’s talents.”

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Cities-affair-between-people/dp/0615430430

generation waking up

we're writing a different story than the one we all were led to believe was inevitable.....

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narrative

perhaps...
perhaps we often get lost in finding our narrative...
because we miss the opportunity of the narrative being about people...
a people agenda...
rather than a school agenda..

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susan cain

all the times i got the message that might introvert behavior was not normal

i made these self-negating choices so reflexively..

it's our loss...
we need people doing what they do best

key to maximize... put yourself in your best zone of stimulation..
schools are geared to extroverts..

many have a serious streak of introversion..

3 calls for action:
1. stop the madness for constant group work (much more freedom, autonomy..)
2. go to the wilderness (be like buddha, have your own revelations, get inside your own head)
3. take a good look at what's inside your suitcase and why it's there (take the things out and grace people with them)

the courage to speak softly..

tony hsieh

fixing the world by fixing cities

yup..
a quiet revolution...

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tweets mar 7

Ira Socol (@irasocol)
3/7/12 7:03 AM
What I really said about "rigor" tinyurl.com/7rt7s2w and why the term should disappear

Alan Levine (@cogdog)
3/7/12 6:59 AM
RT @wfryer @mattrockell awesome #TEDtalk on storytelling: ow.ly/1HSi6EGreat ideas 2 polish skills of engaging educators #d

Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart)
3/7/12 6:59 AM
@davecormier @effectsofNAPLAN @lasic @symphily in terms of research going beyond reflexivity to diffraction, different structures.
Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart)
3/7/12 6:57 AM
@davecormier @effectsofNAPLAN @lasic @symphily in other words, i see possibility in the nomad's war machine similar to Haraway's cyborg.

Brian J. Nichols (@bjnichols)
3/7/12 6:57 AM
@L_Hilt @bhsprincipal Thanks for mentioning the undercurrent post guys! Will you be at #ASCD12 in Philly?

Paul Schreiber (@paulschreiber)
3/7/12 6:57 AM
Bike shops who sell cable locks do their customers a disservice.pic.twitter.com/6KFW1gdV

Clay Shirky (@cshirky)
3/7/12 6:56 AM
Geeky & long, but Bret Victor's video on writing software using responsive programming tools is wonderful bit.ly/yk4xll

Matthias Heil (@MatthiasHeil)
3/7/12 6:55 AM
QR-Codes waren gestern. Hier kommt der Touchcode. – Basic Thinkingbit.ly/y4z87o bit.ly/y4z87o

David Sirota (@davidsirota)
3/7/12 6:54 AM
Coming up on @AM760: 7: Madonna coming to Denver 735: CO Sup Court allows guns on college campuses. Tune in: sirota.am760.net

Skillshare (@skillshare)
3/7/12 6:53 AM
Exciting morning for Skillshare! Our very own Boston Community Ambassador,@badboyboyce is being interviewed by @FOX25news!

Scott Elias  (@ScottElias)
3/7/12 6:51 AM
5 Minutes on The Verge: Nicholas Felton theverge.com/2012/3/1/28311… via@verge cc @ddmeye

Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)
3/7/12 6:46 AM
2 Ed Week essays warn that “personalized learning” may be impersonal & behavioristic:
ow.ly/9qQHo, ow.ly/9qQIf

Ben Grey (@bengrey)
3/6/12 3:00 PM
@DrGarcia Or, maybe, Steady On. With a link to this. youtu.be/iDqf-m2R0R0 (Do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing)

to monika

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/03/03/connected-learning-what-have-they-done-with-alec-will-vicki/

kony 2012

where you live shouldn't determine whether you live

the best you can offer a child is letting them be independent.

a bunch of littles can make a big difference

the people of the world can see each other and protect each other...
the world we live in has new rules.
the tech has brought in new justice.
we aren't just studying human history, we are shaping it.

stop at nothing.
kony2012.com

this is what the world should be like

thank you Keaton dear...

adding after-insights/thinking:

heads up post from Karl

Alec Couros (@courosa)
3/10/12 6:27 PM
"African voices respond to hyper-popular Kony 2012" bit.ly/wqjA4o Excellent commentary about paternalism & prescriptiveness of msg.

Mike Gwaltney (@MikeGwaltney)
3/9/12 10:53 AM
Considered this Perspective, Students? "The Soft Bigotry of Kony 2012", Discuss: bit.ly/A5OuGS #APGOV #edchat #sschat #PBLchat

ethan zuckerman unpacking kony 2012

umair haque (@umairh)
3/12/12 2:59 PM
great post. RT @endeavoringE: #stopmiserablism bit.ly/y14Fb9 @shepleygreen& @mattbish dish it on #stopkony

a fav: http://technosociology.org/?p=904
via @techsoc

Zeynep Tufekci

Rita J. King (@RitaJKing)
3/12/12 10:48 PM
I haven't watched the video yet because I want to follow both sides of the argument without bias.

Rita J. King ‏ @RitaJKing

Is the burden of stopping Kony on the filmmaker who raised awareness for millions or on the millions who are now aware?#Kony2012

Rita J. King ‏ @RitaJKing

@lpintak The price of awareness is usually giving people something to argue about.

Rita J. King ‏ @RitaJKing

@milouness making decisions based on bad data is ignorance, not evil.

Invisible Children (@Invisible)
3/26/12 1:11 PM
Can #KONY2012 change the world? The answer depends on which generation you askt.co/EQ0dHWp5

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

whitney johnson

on procrastination

george siemens

moocs update

stephen.. MOOCs don’t change the nature of the game; they’re playing a different game entirely.

george... Finding your way through, and making sense of, a chaotic landscape is the learning experience. Traditional learning design tries to reduce complexity. We try to increase awareness of complexity. Duplicating what someone else has decided is important is still a type of learning, but not one that exists outside of classroom settings. Real world learning is messy and chaotic.

george... What we lack in education today is the ability to envision a new future based on what technology allows us to do today. Jim Groom is right in stating that “And while I know it is far fro[m] perfect, I feel like the last two or three years have witnessed pretty amazing strides towards seeing some real possibilities for a technical and conceptual shift that can and will happen in institutions.”

Seth's Blog: Doing it wrong, relentlessly

Seth's Blog: Three masters

Monday, March 5, 2012

Chad sansing

http://classroots.org/2012/03/04/dml2012-i-am-the-teacher-underground/

hey man...what's Gdc...?

Seth's Blog: Fear, scarcity and value

Steve hargadon

http://www.stevehargadon.com/2012/03/tail-of-two-ed-tech-agendas.html

Karl fisch

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2012/03/quotes-worth-spreading.html

thank you Karl...

ESP like...

Susan Cain...

The key to maximizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in a zone of stimulation that is right for us.

restorative niches... spaces of permission

Lior Zoref
They are all thinking with their friends.

Upgrade your brain.

Jim Stengel
Pick one attribute related to curiosity and make progress on that this year.

Sherry Turkle
We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

mimi ito

re-imagining learning

create around the kid, the experience of the kid
a work that should never be finished

connie yowell and katie salen...

connie yowell

97% of kids play games - pew report 2009

schools within current structure are operating the best ways they can

pretty sure i have t his on my blog already