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Sound the "Factory Model of Education" klaxon, ALTSchool's raised $100 million to "save education"http://t.co/XapSUuuWGC
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Seeing people “unlearn” is beyond satisfying. Nice post @samueledyson http://t.co/tqZ1qPkEpE #teachtheweb #edtech
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Social media follower count is an obsession for many. @anildash unpacks the realities of a huge following:http://t.co/QDI80oUxFi
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..getting to connect to an extraordinarily large group of people, and get a small window into their thoughts and desires. Hearing an unfiltered stream of people shouting their wishes into the vast expanses of the Internet has permanently made me more aware of the humanity of the strangers who tweet at me every day.
Twitter mimics "atoms in the void." but we are not atoms & decontextualizing meaning destroys it.
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This is brilliant, deep-dive investigative reporting by @rdevro on the disappearance of 43 Mexican studentshttp://t.co/cbVhYzCY6g
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Abarca’s alleged criminal links were hardly unique, however. In November, the newspaper Milenio reportedthat eleven other mayors across Guerrero were under federal scrutiny for suspected ties to organized crime.
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The records also showed that the military communicated directly with the municipal police force that attacked and detained the students. Examined in detail by investigative journalist Marcela Turati of Proceso and reviewed by The Intercept, the records indicated that the military, though not a direct participant in the attacks, was aware of some of what was happening and did not intervene.
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The tally of known dead is only a partial count of the casualties. There are tens of thousands of others who have disappeared since the conflict began. More than 22,000 Mexican citizens are currently listed as missing, according to the government’s own tally, though the actual numbers are believed to be far higher. An estimated 70,000 Central American migrants have vanished while crossing the country since 2006.
Like the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, many of Mexico’s disappeared were last seen being loaded into police or military vehicles.
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If cases of enforced disappearance were routinely pursued, they could provide evidence of systemic abuses, which could trigger charges of crimes against humanity and possibly jeopardize the multi-billion dollar security aid package the Mexican government receives from the U.S government, among other consequences. Under the Leahy Law, named after Sen. Patrick Leahy, aid to foreign security forces implicated in gross human rights violations is illegal.
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“I would like to know that this tragedy in Ayotzinapa had to happen,” she adds, “so that the reality that Iguala is living would be revealed.”
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Banners urge the students not to waste a moment when they could be studying. “The tragedy of life is not losing but losing marginally,” reads one. “Success depends on the details of every class and each question,” reads another."
Struggle in #Mexico: "They say that our children are throwing stones — how can you compare stones to weapons?" Watch: http://t.co/n5QCJl5aI4
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@simonsinek "It is our responsibility to reverse absolutely everything @JackWelchMBA has done." Wow. Not pulling any punches at #HOWLive
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Hey @ValdisKrebs I'm wondering how to potentiate this effort. This matters- life or death for so many-Ideas?http://t.co/OkFS4dgJKm @deray
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The World Bank has $4 Billion in education loans and investments around the world. Who knew...
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Cevin Soling & The Student Resistance Handbook on the Kennedy show Fox News Tonight 5/4/15 10 -11pm EST.
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Thoughtful post by Tom Hyland of #Aspada does Impact Investing in India http://t.co/BsCDeRq01m
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James Baldwin 1968: "How to Cool It"? http://t.co/PeOX4BE5EE via @plthomasEdD
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"By ourselves we are junk...but together we are remarkable." - @simonsinek dropping wisdom 2 minutes in. #HOWLive #MOOatHOW
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Annie Machon, intelligence whistleblower, openly calls the merger of intelligence and corporate interests in surveillance as fascism. #rp15
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Data, Data, Everywhere, but Who Gets to Interpret It? | EPIC https://t.co/zLXjSk6C2S
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Through this work we realized that there were in fact plenty of people who were interested in getting beyond the canned, fixed representations of data provided by apps makers, but were not necessarily interested in learning statistics or experimental science. As an anthropologist, I began to think about this disinterest as also insistence on re-valuing the situatedness of situated knowledge. That is, it is also a recognition that not all problems can be reduced to matters of scientific or positivist enquiry.
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visualization tools that surface matters of concern, not matters of fact.
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I cannot help but wonder how much contextual knowledge is sanitized away by those more comfortable making guesses about what others intended.
"Studies say that most people who say 'studies say' haven't actually read the studies and are blindly plagued by confirmation bias"
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5/5 .@dtapscott Way past time for the main institutions in society to come together and figure out a new social contract for #digital world
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Why Tamir Rice has not been buried six months after being shot and killed by Cleveland Police http://t.co/uPLlv1F5Tbhttp://t.co/Dj5N6NkJv8
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First, disenfranchised youth and young adults are at the forefront. Second, state policing strategy that links specific demographics to crime – or more broadly, security threat – is the target of popular resistance. Third, and perhaps most saliently, both have the archetypes, rallying cries, and social media savvy that not only galvanizes people for immediate action, but also long-term and sustainable movement building.
When images of the crowds gathering in Tahrir Square emerged, when the people of Tunisia mobilized in the streets, the protestors associated with the Arab Spring were lauded for their courage and heroism in the face of systematic oppression by the American media and governmental representatives and the violent response by Arab states was roundly condemned. The resources of the United States were mobilized to support those protesting in the streets of Cairo and elsewhere. Although resisting similar kinds of conditions, protestors in Baltimore and cities like it, however, have not been subject to similar kinds of praise. Instead, they were called “thugs” and “criminals” when they took to the streets. In response, state and local governments deployed resources to contain and delegitimize the protestors.
When protestors and protest movements are framed as thugs and criminals, the corresponding response is to stop the protests through the deployment of the National Guard without a corresponding deployment of resources to address poverty, joblessness, dilapidated educational systems and discriminatory policing that prompted the protests in the first place. Condemnation of the protestors and not the conditions that are the subject of the protests is a rhetorical cloak that enables those conditions to continue unabated.
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/
LIVE on #Periscope: I am Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) holding a virtual town hall https://t.co/os3VkLKao3
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When will @nytimes stop calling people "illegal"? Acts are illegal, not people. #wordsmatter @DefineAmericanhttp://t.co/ko3sen3qDE
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Say yes to the ideas in your head, free fall in to the unknown and create your own parachute - @Poketo #HOWLive #DPforDL
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University protests around the world: a fight against commercialisation: University of Amsterdam, Netherlandshttp://t.co/gWbixpnOyn
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Why the New Research on Mobility Matters http://t.co/vyr5cRi7HO
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Sam Harris tried to engage Noam Chomsky in a public debate. It did not work out like he hoped http://t.co/Tm5HHZsHIRhttp://t.co/n3vssNxX2G
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we do not investigate our crimes, indeed bar investigation of them
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Grim. And a must read.
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Teachable Momentum: Baltimore 'Big Brothers' Sees 3,000 Percent Increase in Mentorship Requests
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Rescued Nigerian women talk of a traumatizing ordeal during Boko Haram captivity http://t.co/fZXFe0GaHehttp://t.co/6VkefpEOS0
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I'll be speaking on #antifragile panel at 12:00 EST - with @AntiFragileUK @AntifragileDoc @salhir https://t.co/B4wNj3wCVr #a3r
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New paper out by @karppi & me: “Social Media, Financial Algorithms and the Hack Crash” in Theory Culture & Society. http://t.co/ZP0tfMWssh
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A very timely week to hear @the_intercept co-founder @jeremyscahill talk with @mollycrabapple (Saturday at 7, free):http://t.co/VEnGZ6C07A
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Microsoft is developing eyeglasses that detect emotions in others http://t.co/4ofeH5tBL2 cc @pkuhar
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Next Tuesday, I'll be discussing poverty and opportunity on a @Georgetown panel with @RobertDPutnam, @EJDionne, and President @BarackObama.
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We're at a crossroads of culture and commerce because of tech.Things are changing. @debbiemillman #HOWLive
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Ethereum mentioned in @TheEconomist's latest blockchain article - http://t.co/aipmkNiGDQ
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“An absence of refugees means an absence of war.” @melissarfleming @UNRefugeeAgency #visioneeringhttp://t.co/JVHWozL0U1
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Absolute must-read by Crisis Group's @NoahBonsey outlining a policy for helping to bring the war in Syria to an endhttp://t.co/enQ2fLQUda
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This block chain conversation reminds me to Honeybee Democracy http://t.co/iSNlOgbx80 #10YF2015
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