tweets jan 5 [privacy, creativity]

Thomas Steele-Maley (@steelemaley)
1/5/13 7:28 AM
@monk51295 reminded me of @Dennis_Littky saying “if you are not on the edge, you are taking up too much space”

Donald Miller (@donaldmiller) 1/4/13 10:44 AM Do we become more creative as we age? Great article in the Atlantic:theatlantic.com/health/archive…

some people age and begin to lose cognitive abilities, they start to express previously hidden artistic talents

brains store everything we have seen and remembered for just such a momen

be app..

ability to communicate relies primarily on the use of verbal and writing skills, which are then lost when cognitive skills decline. But, creative arts like music or painting can bypass the "verbal pathways" and access other pathways that become available for communicatio

Antero and Adam..

writing reading is art...  just one form of the art of communication

led to the theory that, in the healthy brain, one part of the brain "suppresses" or is dominant over another part of the brain. In this case, the gentleman had musical abilities that were suppressed by another part of his brain. When the dominant part of the brain deteriorated, the "musical part" was released to express itself. The same theory may hold true for artists like Lester Potts, who started to paint after losing his verbal abilities. Alternative channels of communication have opened. Dementia patients' artwork reveals the ability to communicate in people who were previously thought to lack even self-awarenes

In memory of her mother Hilda (Hilgos) Gorenstein, Berna founded the Hilgos Foundation, which provides grants to art students who work with Alzheimer's patients.

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Jennifer Borgioli (@DataDiva) 1/4/13 10:46 AM @DrTimony on Wednesday, @science_goddess and I started a course on R. We've both had to shift into full-learner status. Can't multitask.

interesting.. what do we mean by this..?

1. we had to shift into full learner status

2. can't multi task

can't multi task because of where we ve been the last 100+ years..?

or can't multi task when in full learner status..? as if it's a task all its own.?

oh.. how to figure us out


John Faig (@johnfaig)
1/4/13 10:50 AM
excellent blog about using Google search - diigo.com/0vfrf via @diigo#teacher #edtech


Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer)
1/4/13 10:51 AM
Great geography #101qs from @GregSchwanbeck. Why aren't these concentric circles around New York if rates are constant? 101qs.com/1715


Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida)
1/5/13 8:10 AM
RT @FastCoDesign
Steelcase's Anthropologist On Remaking Offices To Create Happier Workers:fastcompany.com/3004140/steelc… …

Flynn uses herself as an example: She finds she's way more productive working from home--she can protect her time there--and when she heads to Grand Rapids she can throw herself into "we" activities. 

 part on privacy shows importance of agency..

can we be alone. and not really be/do..? how to trust in self/others enough to keep on

Whitney Johnson (@johnsonwhitney)
1/5/13 8:18 AM
"Acknowledging our shadow self is vital to growing up." Walk in the Shadowbuff.ly/UqjsT9

Heidi Hass Gable (@HHG)
1/5/13 8:22 AM
@wmchamberlain Some kids don't have that kind of resilience. They will struggle and drown. Seen @BreneBrown work re shame? #rechat

Heidi Hass Gable (@HHG)
1/5/13 8:28 AM
@wmchamberlain We need to talk more specifically about culture and attachment as prerequisites for pedagogy/assessment changes. #rechat

curiosity

STORY ‏@StoryChicago

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Ellen Parr

happy

to reap the benefits of happiness people should want it less.

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IDEC: International Democratic Education Conference

Happy Saturday! Here are "10 Things Science Taught Us About Happiness in 2012"

10 Things Science Taught Us About Happiness in 2012

www.yesmagazine.org

Last year’s most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings on the science of living a meaningful life.

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Seth's Blog: Out on a limb

Seth's Blog: Out on a limb

oh my.
love.

form
out on a limb

lead, money, crime

lead-crime-link-gasoline

tanishq abraham

7:40 - he should be free to find his way..
look beyond the rules of the game and allow people to excel

tweets jan 4 [agency & video of 2012 & howard's course]

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/4/13 7:33 AM
#2013 welcomes the rise of a new biz #culture that values young people exercising personal agency #CSR#Sustainability ow.ly/gtiPF

sandymaxey (@sandymaxey)
1/4/13 7:09 AM
+1k RT @lesamitchell Build communities before solutions. On Hackathons and Solutionism -davidsasaki.name/2012/12/on-hac… …@KauffmanFDN @startupamerica

The starting assumption isn’t that there is an app or gadget that can fix complex social problems, but rather that there is value in bringing together diverse actors to contemplate the stories and social issues that lie out of plain sight in large datas

To attempt to explain why the civic app sector has yet to reach scale is the topic of another blog post, but I’m willing to assert that it’s not for a lack of hackathons and app contests. There is no shortage of prototypes; rather there are few willing investors to support the hard part of their development, and there are few projects that have done serious market research on the needs of their users. 

http://codeforamerica.org/accelerator/
http://www.mindmixer.com/

ReachScale (@ReachScale) 1/4/13 7:32 AM "#Social #Innovation is becoming more #transparent & pervasive as a way of being a good biz" #sustainabilityow.ly/gtiLZ @CSRwire

The first concern I had was that businesses were separating ‘sustainability’ into a distinctive function, which for the most part was isolating who thought about it and increasingly creating fragmented initiatives not systemic enough to really matter in a timely way.

goes against sandy's - bringing together diverse actors.. and keeps you blind to actuality. no?

I expect to see a flood of new businesses in coming years, but more evidently, a new business culture that values young people exercising personal agency. And it is being advocated far and wide by media. 

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/4/13 7:33 AM

#2013 welcomes the rise of a new biz #culture that values young people exercising personal agency #CSR#Sustainability ow.ly/gtiPF

Tony Baldasaro (@baldy7)
1/4/13 8:21 AM
I favorited a @YouTube video youtu.be/0EgDRa55K2c?a Most Powerful Photos From 2012

oh my

and howard's new course..

http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4/lockedwiki/main-page

bob gliner - schools that change communities

Kennedy Alternative High School in Cottage Grove Oregon will be among five schools featured in a new one hour documentary, Schools That Change Communities, which will air on OPB Plus, throughout most of Oregon, Sunday night, Jan 6, at 8 PM as part of beginning its nationwide broadcasts. Produced by Bob Gliner (Lessons From The Real World), this unique, engaging documentary turns the current focus of education on its head. While most US schools keep their students bottled up in classrooms as a way of increasing test scores, this very upbeat special focuses on a diverse range of K-12 public schools in five states that instead break down the walls between the school and its neighborhood. By viewing their communities as classrooms, students are not only invigorated, but also motivated to learn the basics and how to think critically and engage in solving problems they and the larger world they inhabit now face.

At Kennedy Alternative High School students spend much of their time outside classroom walls helping Cottage Grove develop a sustainable environment.

Greg Smith, a professor of education at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, is also featured as a commentator on the documentary.

For more about the documentary and to watch a trailer visit Bob Gliner’s website: Docmakeronline.com.

Seth's Blog: What do you make?

Seth's Blog: What do you make?

tweets jan 3 - [flannagan & mit germanium chips]

wow - very much what my detox was today..

SirKenRobinson

‎"Tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored."

how to hasten being and model it, by doing.. am i legit in that? or am i bunk in the myth of tomorrow...?
i think i'm bunk in the myth of tomorrow - except for the idea of equity. i feel i need to be doing the doing for equity sake.


Philip Auerswald (@auerswald)
1/3/13 7:24 AM
RT @TheBubbleBubble: The college bubble is on its last legs: incredible chart of the student loan default ratebit.ly/SrCAPE
oh my.

Lolly Daskal (@LollyDaskal)
1/3/13 7:27 AM
NEW POST NEW YEAR: What Matters Now ht.ly/gvCV8 #leadfromwithin #leadearship#payattention


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nancyflanagan (@nancyflanagan) 1/3/13 7:28 AM What part of “VAM doesn’t work and so don’t use it” escapes the intellect of our elected officials? @slekaratthechalkface.com/2013/01/02/pit…

  However, we have to remember that this has never been about developing a valid and reliable system of assessment for classroom teachers. This is about redistributing tax dollars to the testing and data management companies that continue to finance our elected officials who put policies in place that continue to siphon tax money right back to the testing companies

National Education Policy Center (NEPC) in a review of Gates Foundation funded VAM research stated “that a teachers’ value-added for the state test is not strongly related to her effectiveness in a broader sense. Most notably, value-added for state assessments is correlated 0.5 or less with that for the alternative assessments, meaning that many teachers whose value-added for one test is low are in fact quite effective when judged by the other. ” And in even simpler terms.  Value Added Measurement systems will incorrectly rank teachers one out of every three times—at best 

John Spencer (@johntspencer)
1/3/13 7:29 AM
Thoughtful, provocative piece by @nancyflanagan "If You Would Take a Bullet for a Child . . ." blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teach… #edreform #rechat

While I empathize with the frustration and impatience, any national movement must be driven by a very broad base of goals and participants; a half-baked national teachers' protest might serve parents who are angry about what's happened to their children without accruing any power for teachers who want to make decisions about their own work. Teachers can't protest effectively unless administrators, school boards, parents and community leaders join forces in a unified movement 

#6) So--ultimately, this question is about strength in numbers. Why is ALEC is pumping out "parent trigger" legislation (where the parent "input" ends once the public school is "disrupted")? When teachers, school leaders and public schools are divided from the people they serve--students, parents and community members--"reformers" win. When the wisdom of good practice--the things parents and educators really want for kids--meets the bulwark of policy, it had better be a tsunami. A single, vocal and articulate teacher (or parent--or administrator) can only be a beacon, not a pathway. 

Perhaps the teachers in Finland can be more proactive, because their culture and leadership doesn't keep them in survivor mode. 

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mit

MIT (@MITnews) 1/3/13 7:37 AM New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.mitne.ws/XmpgSe

Saraswat believes that the semiconductor industry is already planning a move toward germanium circuits. “The choice is to scale the silicon transistor without any performance gains — just get to higher packing density — or get higher packing density as well as better performance,” he says. “And it’s fairly clear that the industry will go for high-strain germanium.”
The MIT researchers’ work was supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.At the IEEE’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in December, researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) presented a p-type transistor with the highest “carrier mobility” yet measured. By that standard, the device is twice as fast as previous experimental p-type transistors and almost four times as fast as the best commercial p-type transistors.
Like other experimental high-performance transistors, the new device derives its speed from its use of a material other than silicon: in this case, germanium. Alloys of germanium are already found in commercial chips, so germanium transistors could be easier to integrate into existing chip-manufacturing processes than transistors made from more exotic materials.
The new transistor also features what’s called a trigate design, which could solve some of the problems that plague computer circuits at extremely small sizes (and which Intel has already introduced in its most advanced chip lines). For all these reasons, the new device offers a tantalizing path forward for the microchip industry — one that could help sustain the rapid increases in computing power, known as Moore’s Law, that consumers have come to expect.
Judy Hoyt, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science; her graduate students Winston Chern, lead author on the new paper, and James T. Teherani; Pouya Hashemi, who was an MIT postdoc at the time and is now with IBM; Dimitri Antoniadis, the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering; and colleagues at MIT and the University of British Columbia achieved their record-setting hole mobility by “straining” the germanium in their transistor — forcing its atoms closer together than they’d ordinarily find comfortable. To do that, they grew the germanium on top of several different layers of silicon and a silicon-germanium composite. The germanium atoms naturally try to line up with the atoms of the layers beneath them, which compresses them together.

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Marlo Thomas (@MarloThomas)
1/3/13 7:29 AM
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes."– Marcel Proust

Businessweek (@BW)
1/2/13 5:15 PM
With Zipcar, Avis backs Steve Case's sharing economy |buswk.co/WeWv3v

Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida)
1/3/13 8:21 AM
RT @SteveCase: 
"The new status symbol isn’t what you own--it’s what you’re smart enough not to own."bit.ly/ZfZqQa

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/3/13 8:20 AM
5. Resolve to #support a #cause--A #resolution worth keeping this year! ow.ly/gtj2R Top 10 Resolutions via @Forbes


Lolly Daskal (@LollyDaskal)
1/3/13 7:33 AM
RT @thehrgoddess: What we give our attention to stays with us; what we let go of will let go of us. ~Cat Forsley


nancyflanagan (@nancyflanagan)
1/3/13 7:36 AM
@jonbecker Actually, "know" is a euphemism. More edu-speak, promo-speak, huh?-speak in that report than freshman-trying-too-hard paper.

manish jain - swaraj uni & shikshantar

Manish Jain - shikshantar & swaraj uni - unschooling
via profile-shikshantar-and-swaraj/

What matters: The intention of Shikshantar and Swaraj University are to directly challenge harmful values that the founders feel are ingrained in the modern world’s approach to education and development. For these visionaries, school need not be compulsory nor based in competition. They challenge the idea of a superior “mono-culture,” (we all need to know the same things), and ask people to reconsider the power of corporations, the allure of consumption, and the monetary-basis of transactions. They do this work by nurturing both thought and action regarding the roles of collaboration, gift-culture, self-designed learning, and environmentally sustainable ways of living

On ed and his daughter, Kanku..

Amidst the chaos (and often contributing to it) is Kanku, Manish and Vidhi’s young daughter. Kanku is an un-schooler. Unlike a homeschooler, who still follows a standardized curriculum, Kanku’s emerging interests comprise her curriculum, her community is her teacher, and her environment is her classroom. Kanku knows what she is missing. Manish points out they’ve taken her to visit schools, just like one might take a child to visit a zoo. He is no shy critic of the conventional education system (of which he sees homeschooling as just another permutation). He likes to point out common aspects found in most schools that he finds unnatural, and often damaging: they are compulsory, based on competition, nurture a singular culture and viewpoint, and are geared towards equipping people with skills that support a consumption-based economy.

visual of city as school et al

Seth's Blog: The attention paradox

Seth's Blog: The attention paradox

noam chomsky - work, learning, freedom

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concern

That's why I'm teaching at MIT – I don't have the credentials to teach at an academic university.

Well what happened in the 60s is that it was too democratic, there was a lot of popular activism, young people trying things out, experimentation – it’s called ‘the time of troubles’. The ‘troubles’ are that it civilised the country: that’s where you get civil rights, the women’s movement, environmental concerns, opposition to aggression. And it’s a much more civilised country as a result but that caused a lot of concern because people were getting out of control. People are supposed to be passive and apathetic and doing what they’re told by the responsible people who are in control. That’s elite ideology across the political spectrum – from liberals to Leninists, it’s essentially the same ideology: people are too stupid and ignorant to do things by themselves so for their own benefit we have to control them. And that very dominant ideology was breaking down in the 60s. And this commission that put together this book was concerned with trying to induce what they called ‘more moderation in democracy’ – turn people back to passivity and obedience so they don’t put so many constraints on state power and so on. In particular they were worried about young people. They were concerned about the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young (that’s their phrase), meaning schools, universities, church and so on – they’re not doing their job, [the young are] not being sufficiently indoctrinated. They’re too free to pursue their own initiatives and concerns and you’ve got to control them better. 

The idea of freedom is very frightening for those who have some degree of privilege and power and I think that shows up in the education system too. 

It's an old insight, not mine. Wilhelm von Humboldt, who did some of the most interesting work on this, once pointed out that if an artisan produces a beautiful object on command we may admire what he did but we despise what he is – he's a tool in the hands of others. If on the other hand he creates that same beautiful object out of his own will we admire it and him and he's fulfilling himself. It's kind of like study at school – I think we all know from our experience  that if you study on command because you have to pass a test you can do fine on the test but two weeks later you've forgotten everything. On the other hand if you do it because you want to find out, and you explore and you make mistakes and you look in the wrong place and so on, then ultimately you remember.

So you think that basically a person knows what it is that he or she wants to do?

Under the right circumstances that would be true. Children for example are naturally curious – they want to know about everything, they want to explore everything but that generally gets knocked out of their heads. They're put into disciplined structures, things are organised for them to act in certain ways so it tends to get beaten out of you. 

via
noel didla (@NoelDidla)
1/1/13 6:53 PM
newleftproject.org/index.php/site… Naom Chomsky on life, learning and freedom 

john cleese - creativity

1. space - sealing yourself off
2. time - starting and stopping points in order to seal yourself off
yohan hizinger - play distinct from ordinary life both locality and duration..  ?
1 and 2 creates an oasis by setting boundaries of space and time - now creativity can happen
play is possible when we're separate from everyday life
3. time - how to use the oasis you've created - why do you still need time - by sticking at it - originality peaks - play with the problem for much longer before you try to resolve it.. dancing with the time that it's not solved - internal agitation, [in order to get rid of that we usually take a decision]
putting in more pondering time...
giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original
4. confidence - true play is experiment - openness to anything, whatever is ok, can't be playful if you're frightful that moving in some direction will be wrong, alan watts - you can't be spontaneous within reason, while you're being creative - nothing is wrong
5. humor - gets us from closed mode to open mode quicker than anything else
selenity serves pomposity



via http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/

tweets jan 2

Brad Feld (@bfeld)
1/1/13 8:47 AM
lnkd.in/jbU73C Super article - very consistent with my recent article Give Before You Get -...

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121219055044-1213-help-the-people-you-know-with-small-gifts?goback=%2Egde_4214303_member_197890110&_mSplash=1

Whitney Johnson (@daredreamdo)
1/2/13 7:08 AM
When communication is to the point, relevant, worthwhile, and compelling, it moves you—the listener or reader—to action. -@TheBrandOfMe

dave cormier (@davecormier)
1/2/13 7:10 AM
@oscarcormier downloads.raspberrypi.org/Raspberry_Pi_E… rasberry pi education manual. just sayin'

Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto) 1/2/13 7:11 AM How To Disrupt Yourselfp.ost.im/p/dBhQGc

That’s what makes disruptive innovation so dangerous and so interesting.  It upends an existing order that seems to be working well.  The reality is that incumbent firms tend to get better and at things people care less about.  Eventually, the basis of competition will change and old metrics of success become us

innovation is saturated with failure.  The destination is uncharted so nobody, no matter how smart or accomplished, knows where they are going

The paradox is that once you get senior management involved in innovation in a significant way, it ceases to become innovation; it becomes a central part of organizational strategy and failure becomes extremely costly and time consuming.  In other words, it’s an absolute me

In actuality, innovation is combination.  It most often arises through active collaboration among people with diverse skills and perspectives.  That’s why so few enterprises can do it effectively.  Large organizations breed conformity, strong leaders encourage a singular vision and don’t like to incorporate ideas that are off-script.

pammoran (@pammoran)
1/2/13 7:24 AM
Key Ed stories from '12 that will matter in '13j.mp/VhbtqW


dave cormier (@davecormier)
1/2/13 7:19 AM
@gsiemens yeah... for claiming i don't know what's going on :P

sandymaxey (@sandymaxey)
1/2/13 7:34 AM
+1k #Deepbreath RT @nilofer Start something that needs to be started.


Whitney Johnson (@johnsonwhitney)
1/2/13 8:00 AM
"We have become a nation of tweakers in an era that screams for transformation." -- @skap5

Seth's Blog: "Here, I made this," is difficult and frightening

Seth's Blog: "Here, I made this," is difficult and frightening

tweets jan 1

Carmen A. Medina (@milouness) 1/1/13 4:56 AM Excellent summary of the Underpopulation problem. feedproxy.google.com/~r/Newgeograph…

The causes of this radical change are diverse. But crucial reasons include decline of extended family support networks; erosion of traditional, often religiously based values; and a culture that celebrates individualism.
“No matter how many communes people invent,” the anthropologist Margaret Mead once remarked, “the family always creeps back.” Let’s hope she’s right, not only about the past but the future as well.

Frank Gullo (@frankgullo)
1/1/13 7:32 AM
Thoughtful post by @johnsonwhitney to help launch 2013 > Instead of Making Resolutions, Dreamblogs.hbr.org/johnson/2013/0…

While resolutions are about "shoulds," dreaming is about hope — and who we may become.Dreaming is at the heart of disruption — it is only when we dream that we can hope to create something truly new, something that will overtake old habits, old customs, and old ways of thinking and being. And we all know by now that a disruptive path leads to a greater measure of success.

Daniel Pink (@DanielPink)
1/1/13 7:59 AM
Seth: "New Year's resolutions rarely work, because good intentions don't often survive a collision with reality."sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/201…
when intentions meet the day - agency matters. no?


http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2013/:

MY THREE WORDS FOR 2013Walt – as in Walt Disney. The concept I’m going to remember with this is multi-faceted. Walt believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying. He was turned down for money to build Disney World around 500 times (all you Disney fans probably know the number by heart). But what I’m also going to remember with Walt was that he held tight to his vision, and he defined it so well that others were able to carry it on after his death. Legacy.
Ender – as in Ender Wiggin. The concepts tied into this is that Ender was a soldier, but a reluctant one. He had to learn how to be mentally tough, that complaining wasn’t all that effective, and that new ideas would face great resistance, even if they were correct. There’s a lot in this one, too. I seemed to go with multi-faceted words this year.
Monchu – it’s an Okinawan word that means something like “one family.” The idea is that you treat more people outside of your bloodline or your tribe as if they are family. This concept will remind me to work even harder on my connecting with value, my relationship-building, and my attention to people who matter to me. It’s probably the hardest one to put down simply, but that’s what I’ll be focusing on.

Tomaz Lasic (@lasic)
1/1/13 7:38 AM
@pammoran Intuition? Under-valued in these performative times of measurables and deliverables …

pammoran (@pammoran)
1/1/13 8:04 AM
@lasic yet as Foucault says .. we live inside a set of relations ... intuition is key in that, no? & Paul J Richtinyurl.com/am4dyhw



Carmen A. Medina (@milouness)
1/1/13 7:44 AM
Our anxiety about death is due to our misconception about life. HT to "dromd", whoever he may be.#foundoncommentsboard


Eric Mazur (@eric_mazur)
1/1/13 7:46 AM
Lectures, what can we do with you?ow.ly/gsImc


Brad Feld (@bfeld)
1/1/13 4:51 AM
Elapsed Time: Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fistbuff.ly/UfKk6x

amplify

http://amplify.com

 3 min in
what if
what if the curriculum is a process of learning to learn
the platform is in the head/individual
data/analysis - how is your community

perhaps - until we get past the vision of a classroom, and a prescribed basic learning, we won't know, we won't see, we won't amplify to our potential...

when intention meets the day, agency matters.
let's scale the individual...

no?