“I want to share something that Caine’s dad told me,” Mullick said to the business leaders. “Before this, Caine was considered slow. He was behind in reading; they were actually going to hold him back. After this, he’s considered gifted…. His grades have improved, he’s stopped stuttering and become a public speaker.
“Every child is gifted and we’re missing it.”
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
caine monroy - in colorado
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/08/caine_monroy_caines_arcade_viral_film_star.php
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Nyad Completes Historic Cuba-to-Florida Swim
1. never ever give up
2. you're never too old to chase your dream
3. it looks like a solitary sport, but it's a team
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mooc critique
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/the-mooc-moment-and-the-end-of-reform/
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What is the best (thoughtful) critique of MOOCs you've read to date? cc @audreywatters @jimgroom @davecormier @bonstewart
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JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein)9/2/13 7:29 AM
I Forgot My Phone: more connected, but more alone smh.com.au/digital-life/m… via @smh
makes me sad that there are moments in our lives where we're not present because we're looking at a phone," said deGuzman, who also wrote the piece, which was directed by Miles Crawford.
watch/verb more
"It wasn't until this year that I've had these revelations about living in the moment without my phone," deGuzman said. "I still have my phone with me, but I try to leave it in my purse. Now I find myself just taking in a moment, and I don't have to post a picture about it."
Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart)9/3/13 6:26 AM
the piece my diss proposal was missing. RT @paulg Why I Won’t Try to Publish as I Move Towards Tenure bit.ly/132az8e thx @JessieNYC
reason: the academic publishing system is built around a 1-2 year publishing process that requires the best and brightest minds to turn over all of their intellectual property without any compensation for that work.
dang if this is the only (and even the top) reason
loved each of those jobs, but I would never have worked for any of those places had they not paid me for my work. Now that I’m a professor, I have yet to see a compelling reason to publish in academic journals that neither compensate me for your work, nor give me the right to keep and control the distribution of that work
a bit concerning..
and a bit ... spot on
Outside the obvious ethical issues I have with this business model, the closed business of academic publishing stands against everything that science represents. At best this system makes it very difficult to parse through data, find relevant science and information, and drive innovation. At worst it works directly against
The culmination of this long process came with the realization that your work was going to reach a limited audience. In fact very few people could afford access to the very best journals, which meant counter-intuitively the more prestigious and important your finding, the less likely it would find a wide audience.
Everyone claims to agree that people should be encouraged to understand science and other academic research. Without current knowledge, we cannot make coherent democratic decisions. But the publishers have slapped a padlock and a “keep out” sign on the gates.
ve long ago gotten past the fact that few people understand what I do on a practical level. What concerns me is that they haven’t yet grokked the importance of tinkering. The people who play on the edge offer a valuable window into what’s coming next. What those people who tinker with emerging media, software tools, and communication technology allow us to do is peel back science to the pre-research level
Tinkers get their hands on tools before they become commoditized. They get the chance to take them apart, put them back together, and see how they might be used. Computer scientists build the digital tools, but the tinkers create the artifacts and experiences that researchers study.
might is huge.
what Alex talked about while suggesting true placebo.. non- functional
To put it another way: I believe in the scientific method, but I also believe in the process of getting to the scientific method.
Scott McLeod (@mcleod)9/3/13 6:30 AM
Simple School Performance Metric: Miley v. MLK bit.ly/1a2avr3#edreform #edchat
Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner)9/3/13 6:32 AM
With common core, fewer, higher math standards for K. No But no one is asking whether they are age appropriate. Play? nyti.ms/15t52ep
or perhaps - no one is tapping into curiosity.
we're not listening to the incredible questions kids/people have - addressing/facilitating those experiments/et al...
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: I Wish You The Privilege of Struggling
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: I Wish You The Privilege of Struggling: Darkness Becomes a Reservoir (M.A. Reilly, 2011) I. The Copy I have been thinking a lot the last few weeks about the business of sch...
only in correlation with the loved is the manifold possible...
there is room here to get lost.
grazie dear.
only in correlation with the loved is the manifold possible...
there is room here to get lost.
grazie dear.
Monday, September 2, 2013
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umair haque (@umairh)9/1/13 4:05 PM
It's precisely why we must. “@ikashefi: @umairh how do you stay optimistic in a world plagued by climate change, economic contraction etc?”
Scott McLeod (@mcleod)9/2/13 6:30 AM
House on Wheels: Architecture Student Converts Old School Bus Into Modular Living Spacebit.ly/1dG8QfN
Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz)9/2/13 6:30 AM
Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Ares.hbr.org/19c08Q9
HuffPostEducation (@HuffPostEdu)9/2/13 6:30 AM
“You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from"huff.to/1dA2765
 Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)9/2/13 6:37 AM 3) #LaborDay: The Future of Talent Lies In Clusters blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/the… HT@guirepso #a3r
A cluster typically consists of five to eight people, is hired by a business with a clear scope of work, and remunerated based on outcomes. ....The cluster manages itself by finding, hiring and firing members; governing itself and resolving conflicts; creating and sustaining work practices and tools; and managing its engagement with other clusters, teams, people and organizations in order to fulfill its direct business goals and to nurture itself.
In short, a cluster is an extreme version of a self-managed team.
Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)9/2/13 6:40 AM 2) #LaborDay: Just how much is enough? or the business case for @SOCAPmarketsnyti.ms/OHv6Yc #a3r
Interestingly, and usefully, it turns out that what we do with our money plays a far more important role than how much money we make
A decade of research has demonstrated that if you insist on spending money on yourself, you should shift from buying stuff (TVs and cars) to experiences (trips and special evenings out). Our own recent research shows that in addition to buying more experiences, you’re better served in many cases by simply buying less — and buying for others
Indulgence is often closely trailed by its chubby sidekick, overindulgence. While the concept of overindulgence is probably all too familiar to anyone who’s ever attended a Thanksgiving dinner, the word “underindulgence” doesn’t exist. (Type it into Dictionary.com, and you’ll be asked, “Did you mean counter intelligence?”) But research shows that underindulgence — indulging a little less than you usually do — holds one key to getting more happiness for your money.
To be clear, having more goldfish (or more gold) doesn’t decrease our happiness — those first few crackers may provide a genuine burst of delight. But rather than focusing on how much we’ve got in our bowl, we should think more carefully about what we do with what we’ve got — which might mean indulging less, and may even mean giving others the opportunity to indulge instead
Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner)9/2/13 6:59 AM Eastern Vs Western Views on need to struggle with learning. We have a huge challenge to develop kids' grit NPRn.pr/15Pnyeo  Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens)9/2/13 6:47 AM The ‘unstoppable’ renewable grid | SmartPlanet smartplanet.com/blog/take/the-  Salon.com (@Salon)9/2/13 6:47 AM We don't want you, Starbucks and Wal-Mart: Amazing new wins in big cities' fight against chain stores.slnm.us/8CBf397  Martin King (@timekord)9/2/13 6:57 AM "The educated learned to suppress" ~ salman khan\ "Education came from war" ~ Sugra Mitragoo.gl/l0rWGn  Fred Bartels (@fredbartels)9/2/13 6:53 AM #cMOOCs are playgrounds where we can become better at playing neuronal roles. Help make #cityMOOC the coolest playground yet.  Christina Hendricks (@clhendricksbc)5/6/13 5:20 AM Starting to get a pretty decent collection of blog posts & articles on #connectivism & #cMOOCs. Most or all gratis:zotero.org/clhendricksbc/… Christina Hendricks (@clhendricksbc)6/6/13 5:05 PM (2nd time) New post: “Difficulties researching effectiveness of #cMOOCs”blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/201…
The connectivist MOOC model as implemented so far by people such as Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes and George Siemens encourages participants to set their own goals and purposes for participation, rather than determining what these are to be for all participants (see, e.g., McAuley, Stewart, Siemens, & Cormier, 2010(pp. 4-5, 40); see The MOOC Guide for a history of cMOOC-type courses, and lists of more recent connectivist MOOCs here and here). As Stephen Downes puts it:
Thus, it’s hard to say in advance what participants might get out of a particular cMOOC, in part because it’s impossible to say in advance what the course will actually be like (beyond the scheduled presentations, which are only one of many parts of a cMOOC). Stephen Downes talks about this in “Creating the Connectivist Course” when he says that he and George Siemens tried to make the “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” course in 2008 “as much like a network as possible.” In this video on how to succeed in a MOOC, Dave Cormier emphasizes the value of connecting with others in the course through commenting on their blog posts, participating in discussion fora, and other ways. The connections made in this way are, Cormier says, “what the course is all about.” Now, of course, Cormier states at the beginning and end of the video that MOOCs are open to different ways of success and this is just “his” way, but the tone of the video suggests that it would be useful for others as well. Cormier says something similar in this video on knowledge in a MOOC: participants in a MOOC “are [ideally?] going to come out with a knowledge network, a network of people and ideas that’s going to carry long past the end of [the] course date.”
So it made sense to me at first to consider asking about the effectiveness or success of a cMOOC through looking at whether and how participants made connections with each other, and especially whether those continue beyond the end of the course. But again, there are some complications, besides the important questions of just how to define “connections” so as to decide what data to gather, and then the technical issues regarding how to get that data.
perhaps the brain via c app..
the ongoing node connections.. sign of healthmakes sense given the nature of cMOOCs, since if there were no participation in these ways then there would be little left of the course but a set of presentations by experts that could be downloaded and watched. Perhaps one could say that even if we can’t decide exactly how much participation (or connection, for that matter) is needed for “success,” an increase in participation (or connection) over time might indicate some degree of success.
[Update June 7, 2013] I just came across this post by George Siemens, in which he doubts the value of lurking, at least in a personal learning network (PLN). There are likely differences of opinion amongst cMOOC proponents and those who offer them, on the value of letting learners decide exactly how much to participate.
It is, of course, possible that the whole approach I’m taking is misguided, namely trying to determine how one measure whether a cMOOC has been successful or not. I’m open to that possibility, but haven’t given up yet–not until I explore other avenues.
I had one other section to this post, but as it is already quite long, I moved that section to a new post, in which I discuss a suggestion by Stephen Downes as to how to evaluate the “success” of MOOCs. In that and/or perhaps another post I will also discuss some of the published literature so far on cMOOCs, and what the research questions and methods were in those studies. |
Sunday, September 1, 2013
jacob appelbaum
via http://boingboing.net/2011/10/31/air-space-a-trip-through-an-ai.html
Now, pre tend for a mo ment that some one stuck in this process is ac tu ally a ter ror ist who wants to cause harm. How well is this sys tem re ally going to work? It isn't going to work at all. The TSA re sponds to yes ter day's threats today and then they tell other agen cies what to do. Ice land is get ting the short end of the stick here, and I'm just get ting the st
Think ing about the keys is a re minder to me of the fu til ity and blind ness en com pass ing the se cu rity process. I could fash ion a set of keys from my very own lock should I be so in clined, as could any one with some extra time or money. I find this even stranger than the all too ob vi ous mark ings on my ticket. Does the TSA trust the Ice landic se cu rity process or
Now, pre tend for a mo ment that some one stuck in this process is ac tu ally a ter ror ist who wants to cause harm. How well is this sys tem re ally going to work? It isn't going to work at all. The TSA re sponds to yes ter day's threats today and then they tell other agen cies what to do. Ice land is get ting the short end of the stick here, and I'm just get ting the st
Think ing about the keys is a re minder to me of the fu til ity and blind ness en com pass ing the se cu rity process. I could fash ion a set of keys from my very own lock should I be so in clined, as could any one with some extra time or money. I find this even stranger than the all too ob vi ous mark ings on my ticket. Does the TSA trust the Ice landic se cu rity process or
I tried to com fort him by ex plain ing the fa mil iar process, only to feel hor rible for ra tio nal iz ing our ex pe ri ence in the frame work of every thing being OK. We were doing what we were told, we would make our flight, and we'd be fine when it was all over.
If any thing, how ever, the process is proof of the op po site. Though we'd man age to leave the room, we could not leave the sys tem that pro duced that room. In fact, the sys tem that put us here wasn't in the process of ending at all. Quite the op po site—after board ing the plane, we'd fly to wards at least two more check points, more bag searches, more pa per work, and perhaps more frisk ing. We were headed straight into a mod ern sur veil lance state and were lucky to be get ting free cook ies at the halfway mark.
Part of me feels en tirely crushed by the kind ness of peo ple who are trapped in a ma chine that forces them to fol low or ders, even when they know bet ter than the process. How could any one be upset with them? They have a job, it's just part of their job, and they're doing the best that they pos si bly might hope to do. Part of me feels some hope that at least this process still has hu mans who think and feel—peo ple who em pathize and who are not over come by the cul ture of fear.
As usual I was not in formed about the rea sons for any of this spe cial treat ment and as usual, I was not given an op por tu nity to cor rect in for ma tion about my self in the sys tem that con trols my move ments.
It doesn't feel good to watch some one make up utter non sense on a whim, and yet that was the sys tem's final man i fes tion.
It doesn't feel good to watch some one make up utter non sense on a whim, and yet that was the sys tem's final man i fes tion.
It doesn't feel good to watch some one make up utter non sense on a whim, and yet that was the sys tem's final man i fes tion.
I set tled in and filled out my cus toms form, not ing every thing I'd purchased and re port ing on my pri vate life as the forms de mand: where I'd been, where I would be stay ing, how much money I'd spent, why I had been trav el ing, and other ques tions that are no-one's busi ness but my own. If I failed to do this per fectly, I'd be both ered more on a tech ni cal ity. It is absolutely ridicu lous.
My en tire flight "home" was filled with stress ful and neg a tive thoughts. I won der if I'll ever be able to land in my own coun try with out a sense of anx i ety. Will I ever have clo sure or clar i fi ca tion on more than a year of extended ha rass ment, de tain ments, threats and even prop erty seizure?
Peo ple often say to me "well, don't you know why this is hap pen ing to you?" and I reply that while we may all spec u late, I have been re fused of ficial an swers. The lit tle of fi cial cor re spon dence I re ceived said it was proba bly a mis take. It took months and they as sure me that things will be better some day, prob a bly. I've been de tained mul ti ple times since that let ter, both in the U.S. and abroad. The DHS won't share a copy of my files with me or my lawyers. It says that I have no right to know what is in them.
The re dress let ter sug gests that even though noth ing is wrong, I'll still be se lected for "ran dom" screen ings. Con sider what they tell us of safety and jus tice, and ask your self: is it pos si ble that a sys tem full of such ob vi ous and ca sual dis hon esty will pro vide it?
Jacob Ap pel baum is an in de pen dent com puter se cu rity re searcher and hacker. He is cur rently em ployed by the Uni ver sity of Wash ing ton, and is a core mem ber of the Tor pro ject. After work ing as a vol un teer with WikiLeaks, he has been de tained at air ports more than a dozen times.
share economy - ness
Chris Finlay (@chrisfinlay)9/1/13 7:15 AM
Why The Sharing Economy In't “They don’t want us unionizing” tomslee.net/2013/08/why-th… via@leashless
In fact I’d like to talk about a movement for the sharing economy. By “a movement” I mean exactly that. I mean huge numbers of people, with a shared identity, mobilized to take action to do two things: to grow the peer sharing economy, and to fight for their collective interests against unfair and unreasonable obstacles.
there is one thing that makes me angry, it is people appropriating the language of collective and progressive politics for financial gain. And that’s one thread of what’s going on here. As we shall see. It does seem that Executive Director Natalie Foster’s heart is in the right place, but that’s one of the tragedies of the sharing economy: well-intentioned people end up contributing to immiseration and injustice when they think they are doing the opposite
Venture Capital funds are not interested in people power, they are interested in an investment with a good return. The fact that Douglas Atkin doesn’t once mention the financial motivations of the forces behind the sharing economy is either dishonest or unbelievably self-deceiving.
The laws that he is talking about are licensing laws and other laws put in place to protect employees, customers, and neighbourhoods. These laws are not all perfect. But the sharing economy has nothing to replace them beyond magical thinking about “trust” (with little accountability
perhaps we experiment with one... crafted by many voices/sous
Fred Mazella was a genius when he named blablacar blablacar, because he’s actually naming what happens in the car. He named his organization not after the transaction, which is ridesharing, but because people communicate and go “bla bla bla” to each other in the car. He correctly identified what the real benefit of the sharing economy is, which is these other social and economic rewards.
The sharing economy is not an alternative to capitalism, it’s the ultimate end point of capitalism in which we are all reduced to temporary labourers and expected to smile about it because we are interested in the experience not the money. Jobs become “extra money” just like women’s jobs used to be “extra money”, and like those jobs they don’t come with things like insurance protection, job security, benefits – none of that old economy stuff. But hey, you’re not an employee, you’re a micro-entrepreneur. And you’re not doing it for the money, you’re doing it for the experience. We just assume you’re making a living some other way.
The old economy has largely failed us. Most people are not experiencing the economic independence and the happiness that mass production and consumerism promised. Partly, in a way, because the old system centralizes production, wealth and control. That’s just the way it works. And in a sense, that’s largely to blame. The peer sharing economy is a new model, which distributes power, wealth, and control to everyone else. Best of all, the very things that have become the casualties of the old economy — things like economic independence, entrepreneurialism, community, individuality, happiness — are actually built in to the very structure of this new economy. You can’t do sharing without building community, without creating individualized experiences.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/02/who_owns_the_sharing_economy/
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Democracy Now! (@democracynow)8/30/13 12:55 PM
Does your child attend a #charterschool? You'll want to hear this report by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzálezowl.li/oqcEr
Barry Wellman (@barrywellman)9/1/13 7:00 AM
Printing an updating Wikipedia. what-if.xkcd.com/59/
Clay Forsberg (@clayforsberg)9/1/13 7:05 AM
“Life is a kaleidoscope. Turn your head a different angle and see it a whole new way.” ~ Anonymous@dlhampton
Austin Kleon (@austinkleon)9/1/13 7:08 AM
“He produced the “Soul Train” pilot with $400 of his own money.”nytimes.com/2012/02/02/art… #dailyobit
Max McKeown (@MaxMckeown)9/1/13 7:09 AM
"War on drugs is one big lie..." ~ theguardian.com/world/2013/
Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer)9/1/13 3:58 PM
Any term like authenticity loses all its value when co-opted by corporate culture.
HuffPostEducation (@HuffPostEdu)9/1/13 4:01 PM
Wow: A LOT of kids go to unsafe schoolshuff.to/1fprns6
http://www.peers.org/
| Chris Finlay (@chrisfinlay) 9/1/13 7:15 AM GMAT scores inversely related to entrepreneurship? ow.ly/220ZPk RT @skap5 via@AlexOsterwalder |
spot on.
and what if we quit re ferrying to things as normal...?
mindset - carol dweck
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201101/the-trouble-bright-girls
The net result: when learning something new is truly difficult, girls take it as sign that they aren't "good" and "smart", and boys take it as a sign to pay attention and try harder.
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