Reflections on the Cycles of Life and Death; My experience in Egypt...

don't crawl over others and hope that you're going to get to some place good, because there's nothing up there that way.. you have to become your deeper self, and you're probably will need others to do that, but it's not by crawling over them that you're going to find such others, you're going to find them by looking in each other's eyes and seeing the beauty there...  - Trina - hope for the flowers

affordable housing institute

via invisible people - mark harvoth - et al.

part 1:
http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2013/10/new-york-citys-self-reinforcing-homelessness-ecosystem-part-1-73-increase-in-family-homelessness.html

part 2:
http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2013/10/new-york-citys-self-reinforcing-homelessness-ecosystem-part-2-more-than-1-billion-annually.html

Motorola’s Dennis Woodside and Regina Dugan: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

Motorola’s Dennis Woodside and Regina Dugan: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

Don’t Teach For America | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Don’t Teach For America | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

george couros at edscape

http://blog.teachercast.net/watch-gcouros-keynote-from-the-edscape-conference-by-teachercast/

http://www.amazon.com/Humanize-People-Centric-Organizations-Succeed-Social/dp/0789741121

cnn 10 thinkers

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/10/tech/cnn10-thinkers/

jack andracka - open access

http://figshare.com/blog/Open_Access_Is_Not_Just_For_Scientists_It's_For_Everyone/72

huge

derek paravicini and adam ockelford

tweets

jack andraka (@jackandraka)
10/21/13 7:00 AM
nice blog on the importance of #openaccess and happy Open Access Awareness Week:) ...tmi.me/1aYYiC
http://figshare.com/blog/Open_Access_Is_Not_Just_For_Scientists_It%27s_For_Everyone/72

Scott McLeod (@mcleod)
10/21/13 7:01 AM
‘Chayn’, a New Website for Pakistan’s Victims of Domestic Abusebit.ly/1gZ6Ga7


Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander)
10/21/13 7:03 AM
@cogdog is revving up a project on education on the open Web. This is fun, important stuff, so feed him feedback:cogdogblog.com/2013/10/17/as-…
what scales is the teaching (to many) not necessarily the experience of those aiming to learn  

...?

There is a better model out there for scaling open learning, it is right under our browsers… the web itself.

huge. yes.
of rather than on... ness

Randy Kluver (@rkluver)
10/22/13 6:28 AM
@barrywellman @wenhongchen refers to twitter's web traffic, 60% comes from outside of US.blog.twitter.com/2008/twitter-w…

Global Voices (@globalvoices)
10/22/13 7:04 AM
Today's digest - Moroccan Netizens Protest Teen Trial over Public Kisseepurl.com/HoT-D


Michael Lewkowitz (@Igniter)
10/22/13 7:05 AM
On relentlessness and time horizons for social impact -> Luck and doggedness - buff.ly/1aBm85W by @nicktemple1#socent #impact


Trust is a Drug http://t.co/Lg9uhl2GvR by @DovSeidman in @bigthink

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bluelobsternets/status/392379852961361921

very keen - spent at least an hour taking Dov in..

“@msuster: Stunningly fascinating part of American culture & misperception. Including my own http://t.co/L5VuLnGqnb”

Woah.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/orbuch/status/392476902851481601

double whoa.. - the danger of just one story..

"Teaching Value in Academic Med Centers" in @JAMA - excellent article mentions @CostsofCare video modules: http://t.co/i0I14VqVil

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChrisMoriates/status/392793188865277952

Essay of the Day: The Economics of a Self-Managed Society http://t.co/mwha9uHn7y

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation/status/392838047458672640

so resonating with a people experiment..

RT @Edutopia RT @dmlresearchhub: Using #Minecraft to teach youth abt the global food market at @AMNH http://t.co/cx0L7OOrYS#gbl #edtech

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NLearning/status/392854410478354432

The Piano Guys did it again. After hauling a piano up the Great Wall, maybe they wished they were the Violin Guys.  http://t.co/NOJSQPwW5s

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/chademeng/status/392859843947556865

Michael Josefowicz (@toughLoveforx)
10/22/13 12:03 PM
@NewsNeus On a different thread, I've been mulling gov policies compare contrast. Alberta, Colorado, Barcelona at#ecosys cc @JennaR


Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)
10/22/13 5:08 AM
1 of 3: Two new books offer complementary critiques of traditional educ & intriguingly different alternatives, both worth a read…

Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)
10/22/13 5:09 AM
2 of 3: Leaving to Learn (ow.ly/pYr4y) argues high schoolers need to do real things outside of school…

Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)
10/22/13 5:10 AM
3 of 3: Invent to Learn (ow.ly/pYr9q) sees kids as makers, shows how tech can be used to play & discover, not memorize facts

Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) 10/14/13 7:27 AM How'd I miss this? Bill Gates in '09 explained why he funds Common Core: “a large uniform base of customers”:ow.ly/pxALx Alex Osterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder) 10/23/13 6:37 AM Can you prove your business model? From Idea to Business - Episode 5 goo.gl/5LhPb5 #bmgen#leanstartup #custdev Fred Bartels (@fredbartels) 10/23/13 6:37 AM The Fugitive Slave Act forced northerners into supporting slavery. RTTT & #CCSS are forcing liberals into supporting poverty. Downes (@Downes) 10/23/13 6:39 AM A Few Words on ePortfolios [Stephen Downes at Limited News] ift.tt/1aFMy6Aift.tt/17fphgI In the MOOCs we have offered over the years, such as Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08), we approached this issue by encouraging students to use their own blogs or websites. In this case, the primary function of the central course management system was not to create and store student ePortfolios, but to aggregate from them and to facilitate the sharing of their contents with other students. In this light, a worthwhile project developed at University of Mary Washington called "a domain of one's own" is probably the modern version of ePortfolios.http://umwdomains.com/ It incourages students to establish their own web presence independently of service providers. future platform in head.. the brain - ness Increasingly in the future students will be responsible for managing their own online learning records and creative products. Though they may use a variety of services -  such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Google Docs, and more - to store their work, they will need to manage these resources, index them, and enable access to them. This will enable them to balance between the process-oriented and product-oriented aspect of their work. This will become important as employers will over time rely less on tests and formal assessments, and will instead look for tangible evidence of personal achievement in web-based repositories. Maintaining an ePortfolio will become tomorrow's equivalent of achieving certification and polishing up one's resumé. David Gilbert (@DavidGilbert43) 10/23/13 6:40 AM I sense a tension (lovely phrase) between the emerging more lively model for #NHScitizen assembly & NHSE (TK?) need for a central 'thing' Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) 10/23/13 6:39 AM Jason Stanford: What Alternative to Standardized Testing?wp.me/p2odLa-6ed Brent Leary (@BrentLeary) 10/23/13 6:40 AM #pbls13 is kicking off. Looking forward to Walter Isaacson's keynote. Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) 10/22/13 1:24 PM Antibiotic resistance: Watch a documentary tonight, join in a live chat tomorrowdlvr.it/4BDnPm David Wees (@davidwees) 10/23/13 6:59 AM @grantwiggins @gfrblxt @DianeRavitch No disagreement here that the system needs to change, but I am pretty sure the coaches are part of it. Jennifer Borgioli (@DataDiva) 10/23/13 6:09 AM If this is last tweet I ever tweet, I'm okay with that. By @grantwiggins, an amazing open letter to @DianeRavitch:grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/is-… I always find it odd that defenders of teachers won’t ever criticize teachers and want to highlight forces outside of classrooms and schools because then they are tacitly admitting that teaching doesn’t make much of a difference.Good teachers get good results; weak teachers don’t. Why can’t we say this and thus work on what is in our control – the teaching? what if the idea of control is the issue. how could you possibly have control of authentic teaching? we can mostly control what we model. but that holds nothing over someone seeking knowledge. unless of course we fabricate/manufacture/shame people into thinking that ie not a teacher if I don't produce a b c et al in students In terms of evidence, let’s start with the remediation rate: Nationwide, as you know, the remediation rate in college is 40%. ACT reports that 30% graduating HS students are not ready for college. This can only happen in a “K-12 system” that is not a system at all. I find it hard to blame poverty and privatization for such an institutional failure to link K-12 to college in assessment and grading locally. And having spent decades in schools, I can tell you why this occurs: teachers are allowed to work in isolation and set grading and testing policies completely on their own. oh my. perhaps more like 70-90% not ready by terms we give for ready.. according to d pope's 95%. unless we are actually affirming that cheating is #1 skill. then 95% ready. oh my .. grant wiggins? Let’s look at Hattie’s research: there are over 30 powerful interventions thattrump socio-economic status, yet it is extremely rare to find those practices in use in any one school. The pressing question for all teachers and administrators is: why is it so rare, in the face of two decades of research? Poverty, politics, and privatization have nothing to do with teachers using best practices. In medicine it is termed malpractice not to use such practices. look at weak curriculum, a need you underscore: in 20 years of doing UbD work I still find local curricula and assessment to be woefully inadequate and primitive. Our research shows that over 90% of curricula are still framed by discrete topics instead of complex ideas, challenges, and tasks – a fact that Ralph Tyler bemoaned over 70 years ago. Teachers still march through discrete low-level content because that is how curriculum is written. How is that anything but a local-educator and supervisor problem? true.. good point. but we can do much better than that.. no? and perhaps we stay where we are because of original statement about teachers grading et al ... in their own way..? Let’s look at structural issues that are also within the control of educators: schooling is still organized based on “seat time” instead of  demonstrated mastery. Students are typically grouped by age  and follow a curriculum that is jam packed with content to be covered (often driven by rigid pacing guides) despite the obvious fact that people learn at different rates and have varied interests. This issue is as old as Ralph Tyler’s criticisms well that is spot on.. if teachers felt they had control.. but they don't.. ie mandatory finals week et al.. people you are talking about... principals teachers .. too afraid of loosing money... so they bow to money givers

Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends - ThePianoGuys

FoodCraft at the American Museum of Natural History

Essay of the Day: The Economics of a Self-Managed Society

Essay of the Day: The Economics of a Self-Managed Society

oh my.
a people experiment.

Seth's Blog: The selfish cynic

Seth's Blog: The selfish cynic

American Promise (Official Theatrical Trailer)

EoT: weekly video update II

Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline

also
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/20127179751585930.html

Trust is a Drug

Trust is a Drug

 more from Dov in june 2013.. trust, transparency, character..

Watch live streaming video from nytconferences at livestream.com

Collaborative Networks and the Productive Precariat - P2P Foundation

Collaborative Networks and the Productive Precariat - P2P Foundation

and http://redefineschool.com/iwan-baan/

tweets

✜ Stephen Ransom (@ransomtech)
10/20/13 7:46 PM
▶ Interesting motion infographic - "Going Private in Public"buff.ly/19lIV82


Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw)
10/21/13 6:59 AM
Getting out of the ivory towerpsch.io/79a8f41e0a

http://zacharyernst.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/why-i-jumped-out-of-ivory-tower.html

a long time, I've been the uncomfortable owner of a coveted faculty position that I didn't want

in the current economic environment, faculty raises are tiny or non-existent anyway. So the effect is small for any given academic year. However, the cumulative effect over the course of an entire career is anything but small. People who have relatively narrow interests do much better financially than those with broader interests. Furthermore, even if the salary differences were negligible, it's highly demoralizing to know that your institution places low value on your work. And this is true even if it only accidentally does.

example, I once wrote a grant proposal with the help of a colleague that was designed to start a truly collaborate effort between the departments of philosophy, economics and psychology. Generous funding was available, and we quickly got a lot of support from these other departments. What happened was very instructive for me. It was approved for a preliminary round of funding that was spent on a small conference which was quite good. But unfortunately, the terms of the grant required it to be submitted through the Chair of the department, and all communication was between the chair and the administration. My chair, predictably, had no real interest in interdisciplinary work, so there was no follow-through for subsequent (and much larger) funding rounds -- and I was too far removed from the process to take action. The conference, which had been a great success, wasn't followed by any other plans whatsoever. I think the failure to come up with a plan -- or to follow the plan in the proposal we had written -- was merely a symptom of the fact that the entire project seemed to be of rather dubious value to my department chair, and he had no experience with this kind of research

Although it's unusual for a grant proposal to go so badly wrong (to the point where I wasn't even informed that it had been submitted, nor that it had been approved), I think it does illustrate a clear fact, namely, that you can't implement a novel initiative without a lot of buy-in from your colleagues. 

There's a great deal of inertia in academia, and it takes a concerted effort, a lot of resources, and the support of a lot of people in order to make these projects succeed. Without constantly pressing the issue, the department, college, or university will quickly swing back to the status quo. 

The assumption behind many interdisciplinary initiatives seems be that if we put smart people in contact with each other and give them some money, good work will happen. Unfortunately, this isn't true at all. 

The gigantic edifice of the university is at odds with any potentially disruptive effort. It's possible to overcome that inertia, but it's a Herculean task, requiring a lot of patience and a great deal of time

In such an environment, our efforts are channeled into narrow sub-specialties, and we consign our work to a tiny audience. Despite the common talk about the importance of "disruptive research" in the university, there's no real understanding of what makes s's omething "disruptive". To disrupt anything requires going outside the normal methods for one's work, redefining what's important or interesting, and usually drawing on a wide range of data and methodologies. It almost always requires collaboration, and almost always requires going outside one's own comfort zone. But in an environment where the senior faculty and administrators have been rewarded throughout their careers for toeing their disciplinary lines, there's a lot of resistance to change. Some of that resistance is due to outright hostility, but most of it is just the result of a lack of experience and imagination.

By all accounts, his business experience is nowhere near the disaster of Forsee's, but Wolfe has no advanced degree, and no first-hand experience in higher education. I don't know if Wolfe will be good for the university or not -- I've actually heard excellent things about his character and intellect, so there's hope

same person?

worst of all, we shouldn't expect someone whose experience is in leading gigantic, dominant corporations to create an environment that rewards original, interdisciplinary, potentially disruptive research

What makes me pessimistic about my own university and public universities in the United States in general is that their inability to adapt isn't due simply to bad leadership or an unfavorable economy. It's based on structural features that are self-reinforcing

http://gawker.com/the-u-s-public-school-system-is-becoming-the-land-of-t-1447334194

tweets

Information access is the cheapest educational commodity. School's primary responsibility is democratizing access to experience & expertise.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/garystager/status/391285445205573632

Humbling/fascinating how much a TodaysMeet backchannel teaches me re: the disconnect btwn what I think I'm saying and what ppl seem to hear.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/willrich45/status/391347488277282816

From the explosion of life in the "Burgess Shale's" to choosing the "Shale" Google glass: http://t.co/yLcQU26yxL (by @michaelgarfield)

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/391240349743472640

Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos) 10/18/13 7:17 AM Let's all be mini-VCs: crowdfunding for equity is getting closer (!!)businessweek.com/news/2013-10-1…

The plan, targeted for an Oct. 23 vote by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would allow such companies to use so-called equity crowdfunding without having to check that a person’s investment is a greater share of their income or net worth than allowed by law, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because the proposal hasn’t been made public.

The crowdfunding rule, authorized as part of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, is intended to benefit small businesses and startups too small to attract funding from banks or venture capitalists. It may also boost business for Internet funding portals such as Kickstarter Inc., IndieGoGo Inc., and CircleUp Network Inc. that are used by startups to raise money.

“What we are talking about are companies that in all likelihood are not going to be winners, and they are being invested in by people who clearly don’t have the expertise and financial smarts of venture capitalists,” Turner said in a phone interview. “So you put those together and you are creating a real opportunity for scams and fraud and significant losses.”

Crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion in 2012 and funded more than 1 million projects, according to research firm Massolution. Crowdfunding has financed technology projects such as the Pebble smartwatch, which raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter to develop a watch that works with an iPhone or Android-powered device.

Scott Smith (@KLOVEscott)
10/18/13 7:13 AM
Saddened by news that #Slavery is still growing, 30 million people now and 1/2 are in #India ! We must#EndIt #FreedomForTheLeastOfThese

Scott Smith (@KLOVEscott)
10/18/13 7:17 AM
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” - William Wilburfoce 
#AntiSlaveryDay #EndIt

Inspired by @humpherlinks, We've donated our 404 page to display photos of missing children. Pretty cool campaign:https://t.co/A68k8Y82f2

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ThunderclapIt/status/390878364770127872

Steven W. Anderson (@web20classroom)
10/19/13 7:24 AM
Neat site. bit.ly/19hfvrC. Discover tweets from around the world in realtime. #edscape

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
10/19/13 7:25 AM
Mongolia seeks to develop its #oil shale deposits.ow.ly/pOwSi

http://www.alternet.org/education/why-flipping-classrooms-flipping-ridiculous

actual public school students are already so far behind affluent districts it is scary, and the gulf is widening with every smartphone upgrade and each new app tha

ha.. this is the flip...

behind what we've deemed important..

many we are claiming to be behind - are strides ahead in what matters.

oh my.

What about someone who can’t PRINT? In 2013 that is like saying “I have never owned shoes.” 

oh double my.

john thackara (@johnthackara)
10/19/13 7:56 AM
'Nomad's Land' - great name for projects re-imagining public space in Paris. More hereautrement.com/ouvrage/le-gra… (in French) @EdAutrement

Barry Wellman (@barrywellman)
10/19/13 7:57 AM
.@kxande2 @lrainie A personal community is the set of active ties from individual's standpoint-some of whom might not know each other.

Barry Wellman (@barrywellman)
10/19/13 7:59 AM
.@jasonnolan @kxande2 @lrainie And I think of personal community as the networks we use to reach out - quite the opposite

GianpieroPetriglieri (@gpetriglieri) 10/19/13 8:31 AM This is what happens when you ask math to 'prove' that which belongs to the realm of the heart.is.gd/on1DrZ

2002, with a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Penn Resiliency Program (part of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center) began a four-year study of positive psychology’s effects on ninth-graders at a high school outside of Philadelphia

In 2002, with a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Penn Resiliency Program (part of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center) began a four-year study of positive psychology’s effects on ninth-graders at a high school outside of Philadelphia. Six years later, in 2008, Seligman entered into a far-reaching collaboration with the U.S. Army, resulting in a $125 million government-funded “Army-wide” program known as Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF).

oh my.

this much money.. and they don't even step outside predetermined sample group

Recently, however, it has been reported that CSF has done little to reduce PTSD. Nevertheless, the government is expanding the $50-million-per-year program.

The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World http://t.co/Lzf3o7k2pX via @imgur

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/VenessaMiemis/status/392120372130111488

yeah.

oh my.

The theory was bolder than bold: Mankind, whether working alone or in groups, is governed by a mathematical tipping point, one specified by a ratio of 2.9013 positive to 1 negative emotions. When the tipping point is crested, a kind of positive emotional chaos ensues—“that flapping of the butterfly’s wing,” as Fredrickson puts it—resulting in human “flourishing.” When it is not met (or if a limit of 11.6346 positive emotions is exceeded, as there is a limit to positivity), everything comes grinding to a halt, or locks into stereotyped patterns like water freezing into ice.

nonlinear aspects of fluid mechanics, a subdiscipline of fluid dynamics—or the study of liquids and gases in motion.

He dug out a famed 1963 paper by the American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz on nonlinear aspects of fluid mechanics, a subdiscipline of fluid dynamics—or the study of liquids and gases in motion

oh my.. Meredith..

"360 deaths, reopens the debate in #Europe on illegal immigration." http://t.co/9DnMvALaHO

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/globalvoices/status/392157347881439232