tweets dec 7

http://dianeravitch.net/2012/12/07/the-dc-credit-recovery-scam/ - odd - it's been removed? or in process of some editing perhaps.. maybe link will work later
interesting we don't think 90% of people cheating [via denise popes research at stanford et al] is a scam. who's to say? what's a diploma tell us? yong zhao's research tells us that high math scores reflect low creativity/entrepreneurship/happiness - and that's not even looking at the potential that those with high scores don't remember the information the presented at one point in time to get those scores.

perhaps we look more at where people are.. if 2/3 in credit recovery... rather than bashing that... let's ask - why are they there?
the article references - most there are failing... so how could they be doubling up on classes. on people failing school - couldn't that also mean they are too bright for our system? too awake to accept it as is?


Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart)
12/7/12 6:18 AM
if we allow online to = reductive & market-driven RT@GdnHigherEd
Could online courses be the death of the humanities? gu.com/p/3cc54/tw

depends on how managerial we remain.

could open up research to the unlikely, unseen/unheard, not so wealthy, geniuses.. that are everywhere.. with the cure to cancer, to ai-type-coffeehouse convos.. that tech is begging us to have, that gb shaw would swim in.. and applaud greatly.

no?

Nigel Cameron (@nigelcameron)
12/7/12 6:24 AM
RT @JenniferSertl: C-PET: #Scenarios /The Long View bit.ly/PlFoZU … w/ @nigelcameron @IdeaGov @faisal_hoque@DanielWRasmus #a3r #cpet

Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)
12/7/12 6:25 AM
Facebook And Microsoft Are Working On A Deal, And It Could Change Everything About Advertisingzite.to/Uh1wXK via @Zite

Microsoft.. ok writing off 6bill...?

how about 20mill...

kriley19 (@kriley19)
12/6/12 11:44 AM
If you have ever taught before... you have had a student like Aiden:tinyurl.com/a4orsyv


JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein)
12/6/12 11:44 AM
Skype in the classroom showcase of lessons education.skype.com/collections

crowdsourcing curiosities... no?

Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu)
12/7/12 6:26 AM
Updated w/clear Tweets to students of @Grade2C "Why on earth wld 2nd graders use Twitter" vsb.li/d0ksFv#edchat #engchat

Nigel Cameron (@nigelcameron)
12/7/12 6:32 AM
Bad. RT @jeffjarvis: Worst oversharing in Roger Cohen's column is what he does to daughter's friend in last 4 parasnyti.ms/TJo4p0

Deb Mills-Scofield (@dscofield)
12/7/12 6:32 AM
Overcoming the 7 Deadly Results of Meddling: Passion for excellence, demand to meet the num... bit.ly/11QHFq8 Gr8@Leadershipfreak

Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander) 12/7/12 6:32 AM Listening to a Middlebury College political economist speak on the fiscal cliff. Taxes will need to rise, entitlement growth must slow.

Maria Popova (@brainpicker)
12/6/12 11:43 AM
What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn’t – solid, important read by @GaryMarcusj.mp/REET56

tweets dec 6 - proofing things

Sam Chaltain (@samchaltain) 12/6/12 6:45 AM “@pammoran: Linda Darling- Hammond's research on the world's - minus the US - best assessment practices tinyurl.com/c9o2fzd #edchat”

oh my guys...

we are crazy to think we're not doing a graver disservice by hiding who owns the learning with cool innovations and friendly verbiage. it's not about how we do things. it's about where the doing is initiated. ie: the curiosity within each person. it doesn't matter if you tell me you're not going to test me... when the entire world can't finish an accolade without stating where the institution, country, person, finished in regard to (school)math scores. we all grok the raised eyebrow.

why is finlands suicide rate so high? why aren't people taking heed to Yongs findings. do we really want to be better at (school) math that 90% of the world doesn't use..? or do we want to be better at being alive..? finding the thing we can't not do..?

I thought assessment meant to sit beside..

why are all these smart people not seeing the irony..?

1suicide every 40 seconds globally.

best assessment practice.. sit beside. .. in spaces of permission with nothing to prove...

no?

Minh Tran (@mqtran) 12/6/12 6:37 AM Who owns captured lectures? -campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/… #ownership #research@PaCTLab

interesting comment..

you knpw.. this only gets difficult.. it'sonly a problem.. if we keep thinking we need to be owning things.. esp when no one can really own anything..no?

Kirsten Olson (@OlsonKirsten)
12/6/12 6:37 AM
"If you're not failing, you're not being innovative enough." The Power of Failurenyti.ms/11bPRA2 #failfaire

more than the typical on sharing failings.. like that.

Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)
12/6/12 6:42 AM
"“The first international conference on Internet Science” April 10-11, 2013. bit.ly/VlWRF9via @diigo

so intrigued with how we do gatherings.. who's together in a space, and why...

Shelly Blake-Plock (@BlakePlock)
12/6/12 6:40 AM
RT: @GOOD: Here are six ways to build a better (and longer-lasting) urban garden: bit.ly/TIC8xZ cc@RoseHammerBurt

Whitney Johnson (@daredreamdo)
12/6/12 6:44 AM
The power to achieve a dream often comes from facing our most wrenching sadness.

comment:

i thought it was key that you questioned how much we are messing with informal learning, the more the formal institution tries to help it happen. [like us going into 3rd world countries and leaving them more helpless than when we first arrived on the scene]

our work has been based on a "connected adjacency" mentality, where we were both in and out of the district/system. but we - as a people - are so mindless/numb about the irony of measuring things that can't be measured - we assign measurement - as a first move. esp if we are of any knowledgeable/academic standing.

so hard to accept simplicity the more we think we know.

reply:

its certainly a very messy area and the more people expect of it and invest in it , the more fraught it will become i guess

today. grazie.

open your eyes. drink the day in.
grazie.

thank you heather.

gregory hill - equity

just got this message from Greg :

Gregory:  Working right now at Antonio's house, teaching him how to code
Gregory:  no internet 5 mins ago
now he has internet
and now he's learning something awesome
tell me that digital equity isn't important

http://thedisruptiondepartment.org/

tweets dec 5

DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub)
12/5/12 6:24 AM
Governmentality, Inc. huff.to/SxtIbq via @theodavid and@UCHRInews

their fantastical claims 

Michael Josefowicz (@toughLoveforx)
12/5/12 6:25 AM
Global peace index 2012: the full list
Guardian UK bit.ly/11TkLgS Rich data sets available for download.

John Hagel (@jhagel) 12/5/12 6:25 AM What’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known - written for women by @JessicaValenti but for all of usbit.ly/UezlZv

their fantastical claims 

My answer generally consists of tips on how to strategically talk with people without putting them on the defensive—ask them their stories, meet them where they’re at, find entry points in a conversation that will resonate. I still believe this advice is helpful, but I wonder if I’ve been doing these young women a disservice by not telling them the full story. Because if I had to choose between being likable or being successful, I’d choose the latter every time.

For me, it was wasting countless hours arguing with people on the Internet—giving equal time to thoughtful and asinine commenters—because I thought somehow it would show me to be fair and open-minded. It pains me to think of what I could have achieved if I had that time back.

The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us, we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known—an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself

In her Barnard speech, Sandberg told the audience of young women to “lean in,” a term that’s also the title of her soon-to-be-released book. She was referring largely to professional ambitions, but I think it’s good advice all around. We need to lean in to who we really are—not who we think people would like most. We need to tell young women that not being liked, as hard as it may be, is often as sign that they’re doing something right. That letting go of “likable” frees them up to focus on who they want to be, and where they want to be, in their lives. And that getting to that place is infinitely better than anything a “like” could bring us.

Downes (@Downes)
12/5/12 6:27 AM
My latest upload: The Virtual Learning Organization on @slideshare slideshare.net/Downes/the-vir… These are slides for tomorrow, comments welcome

Will Richardson (@willrich45)
12/5/12 6:28 AM
What is the Future of the Sharing Economy? bit.ly/XpMJBh #edchat #education#relearners

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
12/5/12 10:18 AM
#MHS12 Scale Idea: NOT considering sector impact, we under-invest in orgs w/ potential 2create new industry dynamics.ssireview.org/blog/entry/emb…

DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub)
12/5/12 10:19 AM
What's at stake for a society that wants to invest in out-of-school learning? - #connectedlearning live onbit.ly/cltvlive

connie yowell - curiosity

might curiosities always sat at the heart of an extraordinary education....?

absolutely....

how do we create these experiences?

are they not already in life? can't we trust that?

do we have to connect things for kids? or do we have to not disconnect them in the first place?



watch on dml site, and find 5 other videos via dml and nic askew

from amy:

I loved it... until around minute 4. Maybe she isn't meaning like it like this, but it sounds like the usual educational gamification hoopla to me. I know my kids learn a lot through gaming, but...

Those games that are designed specifically for learning certain things are no better than a teacher giving a full-sized candy bar as a prize for accomplishing some task. I'm not saying that because I have a problem with *candy bars* -- I'm saying that it's still for some external reward, and thus unlikely to make a lasting impression on learning. And, the situation was usually put into the context of some goofy contrived frame of reference that a child would never experience in real life. Like (taking her example of fractions), "To get to level two, we need to cooperate and get all eight pieces of the pie! Oh, we only have two pieces, that is one quarter! We still need six pieces, or three quarters!!"

What about cooking in the kitchen, and you can't find the 1/2 cup measure -- so you eyeball it with a third of a cup, or two fourth cups, or whatever -- and your cake or bread comes out dry and crumbly? Then, a person is more inclined to think, "Heck! I better find that half cup measure next time. I think I added too much flour..."

And then, around six minutes, she talks about how we're looking at what kids are doing, separately from content. And she's talking about "designing" the content so it is something they will like. I think that's where it has gone wrong. I think there are plenty of things already out there for kids to like in life outside of school, and they need freedom, and THE ONUS IS ON US AS ADULTS TO BE CREATIVE AND SEE THE WORTH IN WHAT THEY ARE ALREADY DOING, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SUPERIMPOSE VALUE ON THEIR ACTIVITIES, BY CONTROLLING THE CONTEXT.

A good example is Minecraft. Here's an article Ken sent us last week:
http://qz.com/32868/could-minecraft-be-the-next-great-engineering-school/
It's a sandbox, much the way life is.

from the article - loving:

Minecraft has become a kind of anarchic massive open online course (MOOC) all on its own, without developing courseware or costly new program licenses. Part of the proliferation is due to user-created video, particularly on YouTube, where a quick search yields 7.5 million mentions. 

julian sefton green - informal learning

julian-sefton-green-learning-out-school-contexts-education-non-formal-settings

http://www.julianseftongreen.net/
working with sonya livinstone

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/learning-not-school
organized - funded - out of school places... not mandated...

In the Hangout (l to r): Andres Lombana, Craig Watkins, Jen Vadeboncoeur, Julian Sefton-Green, Kylie Peppler, Lissa Soep

n the Hangout today:

• Julian Sefton-Green - Guest Speaker - http://www.julianseftongreen.net
• Craig Watkins - Moderator/Host - @scraigwatkins
• Jennifer Vadeboncoeur - http://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/hdlc/jennifer-vadeboncoeur-phd
• Lissa Soep - @lissasoep of @youthradio
• Kylie Peppler - @DrPeppler
• Andres Lombana Bermudez - @vVvA

group doc


photography and video allowing us to see more of learning..
ie: like web is teaching us we're more about network than pyramid

the more institutions look at out of school learning - the less interesting out of school might get
-The more society invests in out-of-school centers as a way of making up for regular schooling, the higher the risk that out-of-school learning loses it’s purpose

the danger of formalizing the informal

the thinking we need to measure/manage - is that what messes with the original function of informal learning?

Comments
1. Context - where does the learning take place?
2. Learners - how do learners set the agenda around their interests, and develop socially?
3. Knowledge - what knowledge is explored in these spaces?

Julian's "Learning at Not School" Report: http://dmlhub.net/publications/learning-not-school

wow - are we doubling the risk in thinking out of school can make up for failure in reg school

Closing Remarks
-More research needed to assess the value of out-of-school centers
-What’s at stake for societies that want to invest in these centers? Are our expectations too high for these centers? Are we doubling the risk in trying to make out-of-school compensate for the failures/challenges of school itself?

are we wanting to create a means toward jobs like we have today - that many people aren't happy in, or do we want to be about facilitating artists.. who have found the thing they can't not do.. 


Quotes
"We need a more consistent, long-term view of the achievements of [out-of-school learning spaces]." - Julian



monk51295: understanding learning.. or understanding what matters
monk51295: are we wanting to create a means toward jobs like we have today - that many people aren't happy in, or do we want to be about facilitating artists.. who have found the thing they can't not do..
jgmac1106: Nice Monk
anterobot: seems like not-school learning is often product-driven (vs. standards-driven). There is still a layer of labor that needs to be made transparent to help guide young people.
monk51295: everyone could have access - if we called it our public ed
anterobot: in this sense, not-school work and engagement is still "work."
monk51295: we have all we need to make scaling the individual equitable

tweets nov 4

huge:

John Hagel (@jhagel) 12/4/12 6:48 AM For a million little truths, you need million scientists - the quest for a unifying theory of the brain by@scicurious bit.ly/Yv9d5n

why any labeling is hard.. form/ shape is a death of sorts

Saying that emotion is in the amygdala, or that decision-making is the prefrontal cortex, is at best a shorthand, and a misleading one at that

oh my.

grokking tacit.

how to.. it's happening in the poorest of places..they call it survival.perhaps we learn from them .. rather than keep on trying to help them.. often unknowingly...out of their breathtaking brilliance ..into our analyzed and definable falsery of plastic

perhaps we start learning.. rather than helping
cc carol

perhaps it's less about helping the assumed poor, and more about detoxing the assumed rich... as rich learn from poor [who grok things via survival] - they give up riches (what's keeping them from being free) and we get hans rosling's and lisa gansky's balancing out - via mesh... but most of all - via choice

___________________
from amy...
Having worked and studied in that field, I am not so sure that's true. Sure, we're finding interesting things from focusing on the minutiae, but I think the larger picture of understanding what causes brain pathology may not be solved by a neuroscientist, or even millions of them. For the reasons you state, Monika, trying to fit everything into a neat little box. The exciting developments come from the junctions of disciplines -- from the freedom to explore -- and from open minds in the NIH and other funding agencies.

There was a man, Hans Selye, who studied the biological effects of stress. He found that uniformly, when exposed to chronic stress, certain endocrine glands in the bodies of rodents and humans would shrink, and this had to happen before disease would set in. The brain, you see, is an endocrine gland. Stress, as it turns out, blocks memory formation, and also kills neurons in the hippocampus -- the part of the brain we believe is responsible for storing memories.

So, it seems to me that we might have already had our Neuroscience Newton, only we chose to ignore him, because we were so busy focusing on the tiny bits, and perpetuating the system of stress that keeps us from understanding (and I mean that on a cellular level). There are other Nobel Prize winning scientists, not neuroscientists, who likely found the key, or at least important pieces of it, I think.

 "El mundo cambia contu ejemplo, no con tu opinion." -- "The world changes with your example, not your opinion."

from amy on timelines...

Random thinking -- thinking about the stress of it -- the thing that impairs my learning -- what is the stress of this?

It's the deadline.

And initially families that pull their kids out of school are stressed out, but as you see, that changes pretty quickly.

When they make the realization... there are no deadlines, unless they choose them.

Andy Cutler (@andypvd)
12/4/12 6:49 AM
#Copenhagen named IBM Smarter City: kk.dk/Nyheder/2012/N… @IBMSmartCities @cphpost@missdesignsays @copenhagenize #Europe #climate

hmmmm...

 yeah 

and the reunion begin... noam, greg, kosta, ... et al..

wrote ashish and frank

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/12/03/will-3-million-buy-a-total-school-makeover-for-20000-students-the-ford-foundation-says-it-will/

via diane ravitch.. and goes with Chris brogan

Duane B Thomas (@edyoucation)
12/3/12 6:13 AM
..outskirts of Appalachia - latest Lexington, KY startups and emerging companies in Google docsbit.ly/RwbaeF via StartupDigest

pammoran (@pammoran)
12/4/12 6:48 AM
Va tests:ESOL kids get prtfolio option 4 reading not 4 science, SS, writing. Sped/504's get prtfolio 4 sci/SS/writingnot 4 reading #gofigure

Seth's Blog: Industrialists vs. the rest of us

Seth's Blog: Industrialists vs. the rest of us


aspiring to more..
prior to now.

werner herzog - deeper truth

via antero




confusion of fact and truth
facts are something very superficial... an accountants truth
when you listen... it will occur to you very abruptly .. that there's a deep truth... you feel illuminated... you don't have to analyze...

why - because there's an ecstacy of truth..

: to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity

1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land. In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed. From the novel:

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

dear matt & jason & dave

love will not be silent (silenced...)
a quiet revolution



live like there's no tomorrow, love like i'm on borrowed time..
it's good to be alive.
i won't take it for granted, i won't waste another second..

was i love?

i wanna live like that, and give it all i have, so that everything i say and do....

if love is who i am, then this is where i stand, recklessly abandoned, never holding back, i wanna live like that...

am i proof?..

do i live like love is true...?

howard gardner - dml hub

reframing-ethics-digital-world

Describe what comes to mind when you hear the following phrases:

- Schooling and education [in a digital and internet age]

Schooling, in terms of people going to a building from 8:00am to 3:00pm, is going to be less and less prevalent. 

hmm.. interesting on ethics, and apps, ...

tweets dec 3

Max McKeown (@MaxMckeown)
12/2/12 7:29 AM
@tom_peters @sandymaxey @ValaAfshar Curiosity, as I've said before, is the true mother of innovation.

Deborah Kauffman (@DSKauffman)
12/3/12 6:13 AM
All the learning takes place inside the learner. None can be inserted by a teacher. goo.gl/jZmmZ#unschool #edreform @monk51295

Jill Gough (@jgough)
12/2/12 7:10 AM
Love @willrich45 starts saying focus is on our learning not his agenda! Great modeling for student-centered learning! #BostonPLN #Learnfwd12

sandymaxey (@sandymaxey) 12/2/12 7:32 AM .@louisestory Time to disrupt #econdev - require transparency and new metrics. Inherently flawed, easily fungible now. nyti.ms/Xc2eNf

add to business plan

add seths quote on rational to page on art...dream

Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)
12/2/12 7:53 AM
Savings Pool - P2P Foundation p2pfoundation.net/Savings_Pool ; as practiced by the JAK bank in Sweden

johnmaeda (@johnmaeda) 12/2/12 7:58 AM "[Leaders] seek to understand rather than judge, to learn and improve rather than blame and shame."risd.cc/QPC2pL via @Paulflevy

combine with shine song by hammit, Matt

johnmaeda (@johnmaeda) 12/2/12 7:58 AM OH "How to translate global issues into local issues so they really start to matter." #wef

what matters.. global to local...

us to you

we to me

community to individual

 curiosity

Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) 12/2/12 5:50 AM “There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.” ― Carl Sagan

Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida)
12/2/12 8:00 AM
Ok, let's get this right, states & cities are shoving casinos down our throats so they can give the $$$ away to companies ...

Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida)
12/2/12 7:47 AM
Whoa - US states/ cities award $80 bil in business incentives per year. Great map from the NYT - h/t@iamstevenpedigo - nytimes.com/interactive/20…

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
12/2/12 8:01 AM
Turning #Remittances into National Profits in LDCs: Mainstream $27B in2 industrialized policies that favor longterm dev ow.ly/fHwrB

http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2012/11/pronovost-advises-all-boards-and-ceos.html
leaders who changed the world — have four attributes: a bedrock of values, a clear moral compass, a compelling vision and the ability to inspire others to make the vision happen.


Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids)
12/2/12 7:47 AM
Tears and smiles this early? Watch the Krispy Kreme worker surprise man on quest for rejection. Short vid: yhoo.it/SE34xu

Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)
12/2/12 7:42 AM
How To Disrupt Yourself p.ost.im/p/dBhQGc

new and wonderful doesn’t get lost in the shuffle of the day-to-day grind.

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
12/2/12 7:41 AM
Agree Molly @mckra1g: Silver's Math view made w/ data in Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger amazon.com/Spirit-Level-E…

suli amoako breaks - redefine education

more than one way


http://www.uncollege.org/the-economics-of-student-loans/

Seth's Blog: Soft and hard

Seth's Blog: Soft and hard