Wednesday, January 22, 2014

tweets

Europe launches RoboEarth: 'Wikipedia for Robots' | ZeitNews http://t.co/8XEStYIP6g via @Diigo

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/425404583871922176


http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/underwater-pyramid-found-near-portugal-has-portuguese-navy-investigating/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/isaac-saul/what-richard-sherman-taught-us_b_4631980.html


http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-billion-dollar-bracket-2014-1


Philly Art Museum RT @kateylederer: Item to check off my bucket list: sledding down the art museum stairs.http://t.co/ge0ilmL69q #Janus

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/425806806104154113


"students have been programmed to follow directions to a T" | @dogtrax: Indep Thinking in Age of Conformityhttp://t.co/cH1nc1mNkG #rhizo14

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/htwebb/status/425987520032428033


"@HuffingtonPost: The president of Yale opens up at @Davos about higher education's biggest challenges #WEF14 http://t.co/4l7MtRtZzc" big 1

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/subichaturvedi/status/425989833987588096


PermanentCultureNow (@PermCultureNow)
1/21/14 12:19 PM
Mark Boyle on Streetbank, cheers' Steve streetbank.com/blog_posts/54fb.me/226EPz1Od



Kate Bowles (@KateMfD)
1/21/14 12:19 PM
@HopeJahren: Brave, smart post by @CherryMakes: "we should be able to talk about mental health"scilogs.com/epilogue/im-co…" < @HallyMk1

Time to Change is a classic complex public health intervention. Sometimes it's only truly simple to measure the impact of major public health campaigns from a distance - for instance, it now seems incredible to think that a doctor would recommend smoking for a sore throat. Or that we once thought it was fine to drink a few pints then drive home and, while we were at it, not wear a seatbelt. Yet all of those examples show a massive shift in public attitudes. But none of this happened overnight. Campaigners were in it for the long haul.

Christopher Mims (@mims)
1/21/14 12:19 PM
Wall Street paychecks are as high as they were before the financial crisisqz.com/168828/wallets…


Medium (@Medium)
1/21/14 12:21 PM
“How Capitalism and Regulation Will Reshape the Sharing Economy” by @mjonesmedium.com/what-i-learned…

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/f64a7c60b599

Three differentiators make the sharing economy distinctive, enabling new sellers to enter the market: scale, access and trust. What all sharing economy startups have in common is the ability to connect sellers with consumers on a scale that is astronomical in comparison with what was possible even a few years ago.

coincidence of wants..
tech helping that..
imagine a whole city.. and a whole day... flying off.. dancing with... that.
every day.
spaces of permission with nothing to prove.

So, at its core, the dynamics of the sharing economy are actually not new. They don’t come from an alien universe where the laws of capitalism don’t apply — they operate in a way so as to make capitalism more efficient. TheWashington Post’s Dominic Basulto offers this insight:
“…these sharing economy companies are going places where Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” cannot. They are re-calibrating supply and demand, giving consumers access to otherwise unused capacity or idle assets. Instead of representing an entirely new underground economy, the companies of the sharing economy represent more of a supplement, adding capacity while driving down prices in ways that help consumers.”
so basically - upcycling  - seeing what we have
aunched in the mid-nineties, its sellers were mainly “a motley collection of individuals.” They touted the ease of the platform: “‘We make sales of up to $1,500 a month,” [one user explained], simply from searching garage sales and reselling the items online.” However, the seller demographics soon shifted to include a sizable contingent of medium businesses and major corporations. The rules changed to reflect the clientele, including restricted payment options and limiting new sellers in certain categories. Likewise, when Amazon opened up its affiliate channel, nearly all the sellers were small merchants or individuals. By 2009 the New York Times was reportingthat “online marketplaces eBay and Amazon once seemed like surefire places to make extra money or to build an online retail business. It’s not quite so simple anymore.”
Signs of a similar trend are already visible in the sharing economy. Many listings on Airbnb now come from professional property managers, and when the company hired a “head of global hospitality” this fall, users became concerned that the focus on standards and requirements may shut the door on casual hosts. Car sharing services are also experiencing a movement towards professionalism. Individual owner/practitioners are now moving into operating small fleets of cars exclusively for rental on places like Uber.
Another development that may stem the sharing exuberance is the lengthening arm of government regulation. Part of what has made the sharing economy so attractive is the ability to ignore or overlook rules that apply to normal businesses, most notably taxes and licensing requirements. But, as many established businesses have pointed out, winning on an uneven playing field is essentially cheating. In New Orleans, local property owners complain about the influx of short-term rentals:
“…licensed hotels, motels, inns and bed-and-breakfasts annually lose $13 million in revenue to short-term rental scofflaws. That adds up to about $1.4 million in taxes and licensing fees…”
The tide is beginning to turn. Tax-free shopping online — once the strongest lure of any online retailer from Ebay to Amazon — is being legislated away. Airbnb is embroiled in a conflict with New York City over its hotel law that prohibits short term rentals, and has already received a subpoena.


Ozge Karaoglu (@ozge)
1/21/14 12:20 PM
Best Friends Forever: Chris Christie & Eli Broadbit.ly/LC1pd3
Broad grant to New Jersey, having been preceded by extensive support to the state’s Department of Education aimed at “’accelerat(ing)’ the pace of ‘disruptive’ and ‘transformational’” change. The Christie-contingent Broad Foundation grant raises so many 


that would be nice... for something that brings global equity.. rather than more consumption... spending... et al.... no...?


Kate Bowles (@KateMfD)
1/21/14 11:48 AM
Universities in an Era of 'Non-Lieux' wp.me/p1bQNf-3JU via @NGhoussoub < @drpievann, did you see this?


http://u15.ca/what-we-are-thinking/universities-era-non-lieux


French philosopher Marc AugĂ© describes “places” and “non-places” (“lieux” and “non-lieux”). Non-lieux are spaces that are essentially interchangeable, without distinctiveness. They tend to render humans anonymous. 

The second powerful impetus towards homogeneity is the increasing tendency of governments to try to “manage” research programmes and enrollment strategies. Most obviously, the desire to promote the acquisition of defined skills needed to fuel short term economic needs is growing apace around the world. Although this desire may seem reasonable, when linked to economic development strategies that are typically cookie-cutter copies of each other, the result is that universities are being pushed to do the same things everywhere. If I see another so-called “innovation strategy” that proposes to tell students that they will only find jobs if they pursue the STEM disciplines, I might just boil over in frustration. And the increasing tendency of governments to promote “applied research” through industry collaboration at the expense of funding for curiosity-driven research also leads to unhealthy uniformity, supporting the superficial consensus on what we need right now, undermining potentially disruptive discovery that shapes knowledge and changes industries and societies in the longer term.

Throughout history, universities have played three interlocking roles, balanced differently at different times and in different places: teaching new generations; preserving and discovering knowledge; and contributing talent, ideas, advice and challenge to the wider society. In an era of ‘non-lieux”, universities are best placed to fulfill those roles today by resisting the pressures to uniformity, by situating ourselves firmly in our unique places, and contributing to an intergenerational dialogue that requires diversity and disputation.

In an era of “non-lieux”, let universities become more distinctive from each other. In that way we can bring unique resources and gifts to a global dialogue that requires diversity if it is to thrive. Let our universities be real places, places worth discovering, places from which – in working together – we can move the earth.

@bonstewart there’s something really interesting about watching people track the multiple identities of their #rhizo14 mates. just sayin’

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/davecormier/status/426009549842415617


Shocking... World's 85 wealthiest people own same wealth as bottom 3.5 BILLION (1/2 of planet!) #WEF14

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/blackhawkinc/status/426020012193615872


beanotherlab


People as sensors - mining social media for meaningful info http://t.co/Xv4q67W5uT

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/426066269930930176

If you love an artist's work:

1) give them money
2) share the work w/ others
3) leave them alone so they can make more
4) all of the above

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/426102562677223424

Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:00 AM
.@elizabethabarre @jesslahey teachers who need objective tests to judge student learning aren't paying attention m.theatlantic.com/education/arch…

can we truly pay attention.. if we re judging ...?


Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:02 AM
.@mcleod ahh compliance training, thy name is #ccss "Responds skillfully to all parts of the prompt"bit.ly/1dLbH6D


UN Foundation (@unfoundation)
1/21/14 7:02 AM
9 Reasons The World Is Better Than Ever, According To Bill And Melinda Gates trib.al/pwWkObZvia @regajha


Caroline Ghosn (@carolineghosn)
1/21/14 7:02 AM
how do we empower citizens in cities to have a role in re-shaping them? #shapecities #wef14#wef @davos

Caroline Ghosn (@carolineghosn)
1/21/14 7:04 AM
if people are given opportunity, invitation to shape their city, they'll take it.technology can play major role | mayor @nenshi #shapecities

Naheed Nenshi (@nenshi)
1/21/14 12:42 AM
Speaking today at cities panel #wef14 @davos. Are cities emerging to take place and role of nation state? Post thoughts to #shapecities


bacigalupe (@bacigalupe)
1/21/14 7:05 AM
Hospitals should have a portable private box where anyone is allowed to safely yell anything, including FFFFF


SlideShare (@SlideShare)
1/21/14 7:05 AM
15 tech companies that will define 2014, including @Snapchat @Sony, via @themotleyfool:slidesha.re/1anb1UP

Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:03 AM
Really wondering what the next form of education conference might look like... in order to be of real value #edchat

Brian E. Bennett (@bennettscience)
1/21/14 7:03 AM
@irasocol What would you want it to look like? Curious.


Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:05 AM
@bennettscience not at all sure. though we might try this spring. hunting new ideas. shouldn't look like school (I think)

Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:07 AM
@bennettscience how to unschedule, focus primarily on conversation, embed children


so... model in the city. as the day.. in a couple days..

Brian E. Bennett (@bennettscience)
1/21/14 7:07 AM
@irasocol Definitely agree with getting kids to come and participate. But, there's also value in talking pedagogy/practice as professionals.


Ira Socol (@irasocol)
1/21/14 7:09 AM
@bennettscience agree. Don't want students all the time, but don't want them as "props" either


so how to make gatherings more about the conversation. less about what types/ages/assumptions of people are gathering.. who's to say/know where the insight will come from..
good thing about tech connecting us - its objective - not biased....it will just listen.. in order to connect



An interesting finding by a progressive group: most teachers happy, and feel autonomous: http://t.co/hzs0vq8A8G

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/grantwiggins/status/425654543129395200

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oh my.


@nirvan "the more personal your story is, the more universal it is" - #civicpaths live on http://t.co/7ok8gY3cP3

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Netakv/status/425699000327897088


With @CainesArcade, a video grew into a community. 'There were kids like Caine throughout the world.' #civicpaths on http://t.co/RSa7D5hFxy

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dmlresearchhub/status/425700966139043840


.@IFTF's #MakerCities launched today. Explore the #maker moverment, create the future of your city http://t.co/BU9FfvLhGA You play too!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/futureofmuseums/status/426068519357513728


Carmen A. Medina (@milouness)
1/21/14 7:03 AM
Universal tendency toward design. HT to @sandymaxey There's New Law in Physics and It Changes Everything ln.is/onforb.es/VvboK

Michael Lewkowitz (@Igniter)
1/21/14 7:04 AM
This is going to challenge our public institutions like nothing else -> 5 Takeaways From The President's NSA Speech - buff.ly/1aFyrCg


Ozge Karaoglu (@ozge)
1/21/14 7:04 AM
Let’s not lose perspective bit.ly/LAzU3s via @SBEducation

Of course these things are a part of what we do and have meaning, 
are we sure about that?

how is race to top ness... not worse than kid pulling out cell phone.. and altering their attention... during class. (or whatever we call it)



Bill Gross@Bill_Gross
 
Tonight @ the Tech Pioneers dinner in#Davos, each table was challenged to come up with a TRILLION dollar idea. Will share later from #WEF14




Monday, January 20, 2014

tweets


Fiery Cushman@fierycushman
 
Thought-provoking article on nexus of ADHD diagnosis and pharma sales:nyti.ms/1k1EHrH

The disorder is now the second most frequent long-term diagnosis made in children, narrowly trailing asthma, according to a New York Times analysis of C.D.C. data.
Advertising on television and in popular magazines like People and Good Housekeeping has cast common childhood forgetfulness and poor grades as grounds for medication that, among other benefits, can result in “schoolwork that matches his intelligence” and ease family tension.
Profits for the A.D.H.D. drug industry have soared. Sales of stimulant medication in 2012 were nearly $9 billion, more than five times the $1.7 billion a decade before, according to the data company IMS Health.
Even Roger Griggs, the pharmaceutical executive who introduced Adderall in 1994, said he strongly opposes marketing stimulants to the general public because of their dangers. He calls them “nuclear bombs,” warranted only under extreme circumstances and when carefully overseen by a physician.
Modern marketing of stimulants began with the name Adderall itself. Mr. Griggs bought a small pharmaceutical company that produced a weight-loss pill named Obetrol. Suspecting that it might treat a relatively unappreciated condition then called attention deficit disorder, and found in about 3 to 5 percent of children, he took “A.D.D.” and fiddled with snappy suffixes. He cast a word with the widest net.
All.
For A.D.D.
A.D.D. for All.
Adderall.
“It was meant to be kind of an inclusive thing,” Mr. Griggs recalled.
Adderall quickly established itself as a competitor of the field’s most popular drug, Ritalin. Shire, realizing the drug’s potential, bought Mr. Griggs’s company for $186 million and spent millions more to market the pill to doctors. After all, patients can buy only what their physicians buy into.
In an interview last month, Dr. Dodson said he makes a new diagnosis in about 300 patients a year and, because he disagrees with studies showing that many A.D.H.D. children are not impaired as adults, always recommends their taking stimulants for the rest of their lives.
Mrs. Parry still has the pamphlet given to her by the school psychologist, which states: “Parents should be aware that these medicines do not ‘drug’ or ‘alter’ the brain of the child. They make the child ‘normal.’ ” 




i guess it all depends on if you see our concept of economy staying similar to what it seems to now be


http://www.renegademothering.com/2014/01/16/hey-hi-i-want-off-all-mothering-teams/

share on fb by amanda enclade






"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain."
~ Vivian Greene

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/redfearn/status/424543293884481537



Frappant. Straffe quote van @MP_Peeters: hoe hoger het diploma, hoe beter je risico's kan inschatten, hoe minder je gaat ondernemen. #fb

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/tomsmeetsBE/status/424544388841504768







Your Brain on Oxytocin: A Love Story #BrainGames @JasonSilva Mon 9/8c http://t.co/1AZMrxwI0a

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NatGeoChannel/status/424550525296971778


Big Picture Learning (@bigpiclearning)
1/16/14 9:44 AM
This Week's FOCUS: BPL is starting off the New Year with some great news conta.cc/1aspiwWfb.me/3fm2V0X7H

The last time I met with Kyna at RISD she made a comment about a conversation she’d had with a Chinese architect when she was on sabbatical in China recently.  His comment:  “One good thing about China is that you don’t have to be able to explain everything you do.” 
Right after New Years I was in a store that had the radio in the background airing this PSA saying:
“Learning does not stop at the classroom door. Textbooks cannot restrain it. Ivy covered walls cannot contain it. It is a breathing growing free-range beast. You are its keeper. So why shouldn’t all this learning you learned outside of school count for something when you go back to school? “ 
The ad went on and on. I thought it was Dennis taking out ads in California for College Unbound. I knew something about the work of the Western Governor’s University. They say they are accessible, flexible, and affordable. How good are they at doing what they say? I’m not sure at all. Online courses have lots of rules and regulations. Colleges still behave in very traditional ways. It is worth looking into.

Lumina Foundation (@LuminaFound)
1/16/14 9:45 AM
MT @CollegeSummit: The person who has the most say over whether or not a student achieves is the student. #FLOTUS #OpportunityforAll


Teach For America (@TeachForAmerica)
1/16/14 9:45 AM
"These kids are smart. They will know if we're not holding up our end of the bargain." - Michelle Obama on #CollegeOpportunity

was it a bargain...?

or a one sided push out...?

they are smart.. they have come up with a bargain themselves.
a narrative for 100% of humanity...

listen...?


Cindy Watkins Kane (@cindykane)
1/16/14 9:48 AM
Always struck by how well @MichelleObama speaks the language of #studentaffairs. She gets us. #sachat

she gets listening... but 100% listening...?
 not so sure..

rather... listening about what's already in place... listening with an agenda..
Krishnamurti on parenting... huge.

ok.. reread..

she gets saschat.
ok to that..
because they too.. are not yet free beyond agenda... no...?



http://maryannreilly.blogspot.com/2014/01/seeing-differently-with-phone.html


from..
Seriously, if you read nothing else today, read this. http://t.co/z7qG9angZO Then read it again. And again. What learning could be. #edchat

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/willrich45/status/424595135348080640


New blog post: What If? The airbnb and lyft of education - http://t.co/DFjRdWeFnH #edtech #edchat @monk51295 @tutormentorteam

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NancyW/status/424620790877667328




moving, honest TEDx talk by @ArianeSConrad about the broader effects of #collcons #sharingeconomy #REXe

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski/status/424627042819141632



If you want to be right, seek certainty. If you want to be the person you were put here to become, run away screaming from it.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/umairh/status/424658005150687232



<3 <3 <3 LOVE THIS: At the Human Library, you check out people instead of bookshttp://t.co/oTRW7QCcjt

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/424763354138173440


The Future of School, Piece by Piece: @mcandler on the progress of the @4pt0schools communityhttp://t.co/AAW8Zphphq

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/dmlresearchhub/status/424987552446431232





http://t.co/rLZfECcoic somehow, five years later we expect that children need to be taught how to read the exact same language they ...

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/monk51295/status/425035732148035584


Important health study showing the benefits of unconditional #basicincome principle of non-means tested, regular cash http://t.co/cFKAct0sKV

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cityeyrie/status/425061396435324928


Awesome example of gameful design! “@pomeranian99: Can we turn lotteries into device for saving?http://t.co/PJHusQ21l9 Intriguing proposal”

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/425123768499847168




Timeless advice from MLK:  "The time is always right to do what is right".

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/425134436036800512



#Davos : The problem or the solution? #wef2014

 http://t.co/Go0vllkK5K

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GrahamBM/status/425253605952978944



http://aj-leon.com/pursuitofeverything/the-coincidence-of-wants/


DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub)
1/18/14 8:30 AM
Writing on the Walls: Graffiti as an Integrated Study Project bit.ly/1dEzqD5 via@edutopia

Call a kid a tagger and he's a criminal. Help him become an artist and everything change

After visiting Writerz Blok, we were inspired to create a space where young artists at our school could express themselves in a supervised setting
?

Ultimately, we hoped that our artwork would open public minds to the notion that graffiti is a legitimate art form when presented in a legal setting.

what does that even mean..?

in a legal setting.
and how does... a legal setting... define whether it's art or not..?




MUSTREAD The Serendipity Machine. A Disruptive Business Model for Society 3.0 http://t.co/4DeDQL0gSJ via @s2m

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/HansLak/status/425261106827780096


Felice J. Freyer (@felicejfreyer)
1/18/14 8:31 AM
After 22 drug overdose deaths in 13 days, most on weekends, RI health officials fear what this weekend will bring. bit.ly/1b94LOp
Narcan, which is available over the counter at Walgreens, can stop an overdose in its tracks, administered by injection or nasal spray. People who know someone with an addiction problem should keep the drug handy, Fine said.
The officials also urged actions to prevent deaths when overdoses do occur: by using the drug Narcan and by not fearing arrest if they call 911.
Narcan, which is available over the counter at Walgreens, can stop an overdose in its tracks, administered by injection or nasal spray. People who know someone with an addiction problem should keep the drug handy, Fine said.
Wall, of the state police, said that the 2012 Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Act ensures that someone who calls for help during an overdose will not face arrest or prosecution for drug possession.
Stenning, the BHDDH director, said that treatment is both accessible and affordable, and that people can call (401) 462-4680 during business hours and 211 at any time to find help. He noted that with the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, many formerly uninsured people will have easier access to treatment because they will have coverage and won’t have to wait for a state-funded treatment slot.


This is the smartest take on corporate culture I've read in ages. via @bhorowitz http://t.co/zbLKu3x9nd

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/practicallyrad/status/425292032232677377

Ashwin Ram (@ashwinram)
1/18/14 8:35 AM
.@marissamayer majored in Symbolic Systems (basically Cognitive Science) at @Stanford. But what is it?
npr.org/blogs/13.7/201… via @nprnews


Civic Paths@civicpaths
 
@DORIANELECTRA: "No need for market research, look to immediate social feedback. What sticks!" #civicpaths