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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

CNN_market africa-verdade161010.mp4

Putting an end to electronic waste : Janet Gunter at TEDxBrixton

Monday, November 4, 2013

Academic Imperialism - Vinay Lal

Duke U. professor plans massive collaborative effort to tackle the challenges facing higher education | Inside Higher Ed

tweets

http://interactioninstitute.org/blog/2013/07/03/the-network-story-of-change/

To be effective, “networks must cut across class, social and political boundaries.”
The strongest networks bring together a multiplicity of weak ties rather than the repetition of strong ones (another way of stating the above).
A network benefits from spending time early on building its own collaborative culture.
“Even people who are willing to work together have to learn how to do it effectively.”
An early sign of network success is when people think as larger body, not simply as or about an organization, for example, but a community or region.
“For every node [of the network], the first priority has to be their own node.” This is why it is important to have some entity whose mission it is to strengthen the network and protect its collaborative culture.
“In strong networks, participation is relevant and rewarding.”

University of California to offer $5M in support to undocumented students via advisers, student services and #finaid http://t.co/wuSJWzbGiQ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/whitmorejon/status/397190857830699008

I appreciate this blog post RT @gsiemens: WISE: The world's most important education conferencehttp://t.co/K66VzRZfh7 #wise13 #WISE_ceo

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/julielindsay/status/397214063769300992

RT @tomwhitby: My latest Post is about 2 great Ppl you should know: "WISE Summit and My Takeaway"http://t.co/SkSF38edJ3 #Edchat #Wise13

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/julielindsay/status/397214580289445890

How nonprofits are totally blowing it http://t.co/GRE5cysL3r

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HuffPostImpact/status/397219936910983169

DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub)
11/3/13 11:30 AM
New study shows that mentoring youth promotes cognitive gains in older adults:bit.ly/17AxRGT

new study?

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/4/13 6:50 AM
The Education Games Endure: wp.me/pJX8i-3b9 via@thechalkface

Thus, if educators wish to claim our rightful place as the experts on education, we must not embrace the inexpert, ever.

what?

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/4/13 6:59 AM
Inside the Psyche of the 1% truth-out.org/opinion/item/1…

An increasing number of psychologists are becoming aware that traditional research was limited by the bias of only looking at people in jail. One wrote that subjects in psychopathy research “were usually institutionalized at the time of testing, and consequently our research may not accurately capture the internal structure and dynamics of the successful antisocial or psychopathic individual.” [9]

totally what is happening in the world.

we are mostly (only?) testing people who have been immersed in compulsory Ed

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/4/13 6:56 AM
In Vermont, a Brave Call for Public Education blogs.edweek.org/teachers/livin… via@educationweek

Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99)
11/4/13 6:57 AM
Poverty used to be geographically clustered in the US; in the last 20 years it has dispersed. Interesting point in nyti.ms/Hyo1tl

TEDxYouth@TheSchool (@TEDxYTheSchool)
11/4/13 7:21 AM
Leo Liebeskind talks to 8th graders at @The_School about his social activism. He will talk at#TEDxYouth on 11/16. pic.twitter.com/5RFhC5ULZq

Cathy Davidson (@CathyNDavidson)
11/4/13 7:22 AM
.@gerrycanavan Wow. Gerry! We'll rock it. Final assignment is design university from scratch. Would love Rad U!

we submitted ours early... a people experiment.. rad u/city u/world u -- life.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

tweets

‘A network reflects on itself to create itself. It creates its own “what is”’ — G. Siemens

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/iwannt/status/396803034027548673

Oakland passed an #opendata law recently that was by the people and for the people. Here's how they did it:http://t.co/7yjRluzZk8

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SunFoundation/status/396698974800715776

Innovation Imperative: Change Everything http://t.co/qRvzuHIld2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/claychristensen/status/396887001070202880

Three Useful Common Core “Cheat Sheets” http://t.co/COQPFz5XTa

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Larryferlazzo/status/396981897382739968

can we hear ourselves?...

What Jazz Can Teach Business About Innovation http://t.co/8TT8LSnnWh

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Digitaltonto/status/396982530219339776

what might happen if we tried to cheat something like jazz. is there a cheat sheet for improve.

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 5:34 AM
the everyday motion of artifacts: the proximity of entrances and exits (the only tee...plthomaspoetry.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-pr…

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 5:34 AM
the everyday motion of artifacts: the kindness school (beyond the archeology of whit...plthomaspoetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-ki…

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 5:24 AM
Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Wayswp.me/p2GmBR-qB via @plthomasEdD

Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo)
11/2/13 11:57 PM
NEW POST: Special Edition Of Good Posts & Articles On Education Policylarryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/11/03/spe…

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 5:25 AM
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn't Matter) wp.me/p2GmBR-jf via@plthomasEdD

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 5:26 AM
This Is the Problem wp.me/p2GmBR-qQ via@plthomasEdD

Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo)
11/3/13 12:29 AM
Price of 1Gb of storage:
1981 $300000
1987 $50000
1990 $10000
1994 $1000
1997 $100
2000 $10
2004 $1
2012 $0.10
(via @SciencePorn)

Seb Paquet (@sebpaquet)
11/3/13 6:43 AM
birds flock together to form a MASSIVE bird to escape a falcon. AMAZING!pinterest.com/pin/1474929565…

Paul Thomas (@plthomasEdD)
11/3/13 6:44 AM
How does #TheWalkingDead help us understand poverty? radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/zom… @iChrisLehman @profconnors @EduSanity

Certainly in a world without zombies, Carol has no justification for murder and burning the corpses, but in the realities of The Walking Dead, context dictates behaviors—and colors our judgment of those behaviors.

setting free via a not ridiculous experiment..

changes if you are awake...

Free will and choice—like rationality—are bound by context. But neither free will nor choice is basic to being human since our basic human nature consists of those thing about which we have no real choice.

? - perhaps only because we've made choices scarce..

Choice, in fact, is not an essential aspect of a free people. Choice is the result of a free people collectively insuring that all people have the essentials of life protected so that the human longing to choose becomes possible and even ethical.

Living in constant vigilance against the threat of zombies, ironically, reduces all living humans to their basic compulsions, rendering even living humans more zombie-like than they would want to admit: zombies are only consumers, and humans living under the threat of zombies are primarily survivors.

Living under the weight of poverty is a very real condition that zombie narratives represent in metaphor.

The Walking Dead‘s central relevance as it speaks to the power of poverty is that becoming a zombie in this narrative is simply the result of dying; everyone is a potential zombie (unlike the traditional need to be bitten by a zombie). Zombies in The Walking Dead and poverty, then, are unavoidable and pervasive.

Depending on evidence instead of metaphor, with unintended zombie flair, Mullainathan and Shafir argue, “Scarcity captures the mind.”

Zombie narratives as well as Mullainathan and Shafir’s work on scarcity help highlight an understanding of poverty that rejects stereotypes as well as what people and children living and learning in poverty need: Their state of scarcity must be alleviated.

yes. that. return turtle shells.

But that goal cannot be achieved within a deforming idealism that asks impoverished people to live as if poverty doesn’t exist, that asks children living in poverty to pretend they are not impoverished during the school day. It deserves repeating: “One cannot take a vacation from poverty.”

Join #MacFellow/@reddit Ask Me Anything w/ psychologist Angela Duckworth & economist Roland Fryer Nov. 8 http://t.co/aV9SHacK97 #education

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/macfound/status/397020507532697600

Deeply painful article by @sarahkendzior We are devaluing people not skills. http://t.co/ZzoZHsjEWD <-Hard truths to read,harder to live.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/lisarokusek/status/397031894300119040

astra taylor - democratic ed of unschoolers

What I really wanted—what I still want, even now, as an adult—is that intellectual community I was looking for in high school and college but never quite found. I would have loved to commune with other young people and find out what a school of freedom could be like. But for some reason, such a possibility was unthinkable, a wild fantasy—instead, the only option available was to submit to irrational authority six and a half hours a day, five days a week, in a series of cinder-block holding cells. If nothing else, we should pause to wonder why there’s so rarely any middle ground.

Surviving the post-employment economy - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Surviving the post-employment economy - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

You are not your job. But you are how you treat people.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

inside out - syrian children refugees art

tweets

My ideal co-working space? The Brill Building in the 50s and 60s. http://t.co/ICTxNEq64w

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/396471249976561664

Dang @PeterDiamandis, you inspire the hell out of me. http://t.co/Gh2rx4XdnN

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/thomasbeta/status/395619703520911360

It will be really interesting to see where #bitcoin goes - especially with funded projects like this.http://t.co/zZHH5rE7HW

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/courosa/status/396484343444426754

http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-an-open-mesh-network-in-your-neighborhood

Cal Armstrong (@sig225)
11/2/13 7:59 AM
"One public school system in Ontario" ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/… Oh for courageous politicians - is that you @Kathleen_Wynne or @andreahorwath ?

austerity-induced suffering

Nigel Cameron (@nigelcameron)
11/2/13 7:01 AM
Quite a rec. RT @leedership: @tom_peters Reading Kahneman "Thinking Fast and Slow" arguably the best psych book I have read. Thanks for tip.

Tom Peters (@tom_peters)
11/2/13 8:01 AM
@nigelcameron @leedership "Problem" is it's not a fast read. Must absorb slowly. I've re-read and re-read.

Dr Nadine Muller (@Nadine_Muller)
11/2/13 3:30 AM
Pls RT: "The Politics of Blogging the Personal". So inspired by comments from students + colleagues on this nadinemuller.org.uk/musings/silenc… #academia

As early as my undergraduate years I got to know academics who were struggling physically and mentally with the stress their jobs brought with them, and this image was further normalised for me when I began my Ph.D. research. Being selfish and not speaking about the issues – and thus not risking the potentially bad impression future employers and colleagues may have of me – continues the silence which often surrounds these and other problems. I don’t advocate that everyone lay bare their financial or psychological difficulties, but the further we stay silent and selfish – no matter how great the personal benefits – the more these issues will spiral out of control, perhaps now more than ever, with increasing economic and government pressures in higher education.

Great Art lies both directly and indirectly. Professors, historians and critics are constantly telling us what this or that means. Was Milton, in Paradise Lost, really ‘of the Devil’s party without knowing it’ and does it matter if Thoreau left his cabin at Walden every day to go home to do his laundry and did George Orwell really say ‘In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act’.
The last quotation of Orwell is a appealing because it sounds Orwellian (I almost said ‘honourable) but Orwell probably never said it. Mythology often overshadows the facts and the blog of the Quote Investigator (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/) unravelled this in their wonderful exploration of the origins of the quote.

As a sometime anxiety sufferer myself it is comforting to know that are people are facing similar problems. I think Britain prides itself on the whole ‘stiff upper lip’ mentality. Well screw that, because it is a mentality that is detrimental to frank and open discussion . By talking openly about these issues we diffuse their power.
I’m not going to sit here and write how ‘brave’ you are, as if this is something truly transgressive, because far as I’m concerned it should a non-issue.

Today's fave discovery: IRTA = International Reciprocal Trade Association: barter expertise + Universal Currency. http://t.co/o3KVtQtwsg

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/aprilrinne/status/396741133205663744

V. Imp't Statement #Iraq #MidEast to stop #retaliations/contagion: #Sistani Fatwa vs.Sectarian #Violence -#Iraq http://t.co/PWfa07pxa2"

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GSlutkin/status/396744950630461441

Congrats from @CureViolence to #CeaseFire #New Orleans @MayorLandrieu: 200 days of zero #violent deaths #PHealth success by a great team.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GSlutkin/status/396756260671864832

robert whitaker - anatomy of an epidemic

1987 (arrival of prozac) - spent $800 million – 1.25 mill on disability – 16,200 children

2008 – spent $40 billion - 4 mill on disability – 600,000 children

1100 people every day going on to diagnosis of mental illness

http://redefineschool.com/robert-whitaker/

bitcoin - organic farmer

nsa files decoded

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1

Malala and Nabila: worlds apart - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

peter diamandis

Published on Oct 29, 2013

Peter H. Diamandis muses on his passions and the motivations that fuel his motivation. Footage from Diamandis' virtual acceptance speech for the Churchill Club's 2013 Legendary Leader award.

heroes - people who see the world as it could/should be and then paint that world so vividly..

in serial fashion - knocking down boundary after boundary until you hit the fundamental law of physics and it's bound to happen

today - there is nothing that we cannot do

the most important thing we need to do is change the conversation from one about talking about problems to one about solving problems

Friday, November 1, 2013

Neurocam wearable camera reads your brainwaves and records what interests you

tweets

"The universal network for students traveling around the world" http://t.co/pfFSHHsw7p New to me. Interesting. (via @jeffnugent)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jonbecker/status/395969184582365184

Smart stuff #edchat Mom: My autistic son ‘is lost in a sea of standards’ at school http://t.co/PiFGfez3Jn

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/markbarnes19/status/395888888017092608

Internet Feudalism: The Battle for Power on the Internet http://t.co/YfN6pJCZjL

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dtapscott/status/395888151346282496

From earlier this week: @ftrain on "The Web and the Quest for the Perfect Document" + our relationship with accretion http://t.co/WMWCxDDu7T

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/rogre/status/396038247173738496

@CathyNDavidson @henryjenkins @projectnoah @SGoldstein33 @ericbot @hopeelephants featured in http://t.co/HcuDssUKJF #isschoolenough

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/horsefield2/status/393039258996338689

Also "Philosophy." (Via the great @JRhodesPianist). http://t.co/z02yZ5VM7P

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/EricWhitacre/status/396374018816606208

Democracy Now! (@democracynow)
11/1/13 7:08 AM
Studying at #Harvard #Yale #Princeton #Brown #Dartmouth #Rutgers #Columbia #UNC? You might want to watch this: owl.li/qnoTA

And these stories of radical Christians transforming native people into religious perfectionists, into models of Christian virtue, are actually, you know, just being eaten up in Europe.

It’s an—it’s awkward. You know, I think—you know, when you think about the way that Ms. Browne was talking about Traces of the Trade, this slow, uncomfortable realization that you’re part of this world with this very broad, deep, painful history is, to say the very least, awkward. It was—it also became an intellectual challenge for me: How do I tell that story? And how do I get that story to an audience and get them to understand its meaning, what it means for us today and what it meant for us then? And so, I think, in some ways, as a historian it’s probably easier to deal with that realization, because we have the tools for then wrestling with it.

And I needed to explain this phenomenon, and so one of the things I looked at was I really tried to examine the history around that decision-making process. And in the book, I point out that it has a lot to do with the rising fear of slave revolts in the 18th century colonies and the belief that children would be more easily socialized into slavery and less likely to revolt.

And I argue in the book that one of the things that Northerners contribute to the—Northern intellectuals contribute in the decades before the war is the attempt to establish a common ground between the North and South, an intellectual solution to the crisis over slavery as that crisis boils up. And they actually manage to claim a new public position in this role. I argue in the book that actually what allows the college to become—the university to become what we know today, an independent, influential actor in public affairs, rather than an offshoot of churches, which is what they are in the colonial period, right—what allows them to break free of the church and establish themselves and their own prestige in the public arena is the ability to articulate a new vision of the United States, a new future for the United States.

But it’s premised on racial science. It’s premised upon a claim that academics, intellectuals, can make a better, more informed, truer argument about the future of the nation and the question of slavery. And they use race science to make that claim. And so, in the final chapter of the book, I look at the overrepresentation of academics, of college professors and college presidents, in racial cleansing movements.

huge ginormous oh my to that.

but also oh my to us doing this very same thing.. ie: g/t et al, labels.

cathy davidson's .. if there were no standards.. would there be any disabilities

I look at the overrepresentation of academics, of college professors and college presidents, in racial cleansing movements

Wow... the stuff mindgasms are made of.. don't miss this trailer from the incredible @MichelGondryhttp://t.co/tLDjyDYqlq

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JasonSilva/status/396085170249293824