Sunday, December 29, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
tweets
http://invisiblepeople.tv/
10 Reasons Why 2014 Will Be Year of #ShareableCities: #9 dearth of traditional 'jobs' in cities but no shortage of #collcons livelihoods.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
earn a living ness
http://youngcons.com/conan-
dang.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/
Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)
12/28/13 6:54 AM
Showcasing the best brands in social currency
vivaldipartners.com/
Bob Goff (@bobgoff)
12/28/13 7:00 AM
We're living letters. Every time we love people unselfishly, we become a little more legible.@lovedoes
James Altucher (@jaltucher)
12/28/13 6:59 AM
BE HONEST WITH ME: Wine tastes bad, Shakespeare is no good, Xanadu is a great song:jamesaltucher.com/2012/03/be-
10 Reasons Why 2014 Will Be Year of #ShareableCities: #9 dearth of traditional 'jobs' in cities but no shortage of #collcons livelihoods.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
earn a living ness
http://youngcons.com/conan-
dang.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/
Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)12/28/13 6:54 AM
Showcasing the best brands in social currency
vivaldipartners.com/
Bob Goff (@bobgoff)12/28/13 7:00 AM
We're living letters. Every time we love people unselfishly, we become a little more legible.@lovedoes
James Altucher (@jaltucher)12/28/13 6:59 AM
BE HONEST WITH ME: Wine tastes bad, Shakespeare is no good, Xanadu is a great song:jamesaltucher.com/2012/03/be-
 UN Foundation (@unfoundation)12/28/13 7:05 AM 9 Stories that Will Drive the Global Agenda in 2014: trib.al/s3K1GP3 via@undispatch  Joey Sagel (@principaljoey)12/28/13 6:16 AM How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have? Interesting readzite.to/19S6ZkP whoa. major assumptions going on here...
Content can be mandated while teaching can still vary: the question obscures this important distinction as framed (probably just to be sensible to laypersons). In fact, this distinction probably reflects the norm. i. e. in most districts and even many private schools there is a curriculum framework that obligates all who teach the courses/grades in question, while little is mandated in terms of specific teaching techniques or instructional activities; that is typically left up to teachers. The public’s response – 70% want teachers to have the flexibility – probably reflects a broadly-held view that practitioners (in any field) should be able to exercise judgment about what clients need.
Yet, this result (and the conflated version of the question) begs an important question about just what it means to be a professional. How much freedom to teach a certain way should a professional educator have?
I trust readers agree that professional freedom does not permit one to deviate from the content of the curriculum to ignore specified content goals.
oh my.
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Friday, December 27, 2013
tweets
Here Is What Happens When A Trailblaze
http://www.upworthy.com/here-.@WorldBank raises $52 bil for poorest counttries-Will be used to increase focus on #climatechange & #genderequality http://t.co/MetW75wXhw
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
Sharing photos from group/family events with each other is still way too hard.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
so what if sharing is less about sending and more about leaving an trail with an easy/useful search option
Packing for a 3 Day Conference : alexking.o
http://alexking.org/blog/2013/http://globalvoicesonline.org/
http://www.hackhands.com/#
howard rheingold'
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/@bfeld Eggers excerpt from How the Water Feels to the Fishes, in One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: http://t.co/J2Yv1miNV9.
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
CC’s Next Generation Licenses — Welcome Version 4.0! - Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/what if we don't need this...?
Alex Payne — Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology
https://al3x.net/2013/12/18/or this..?
Victim of China’s One-Child-
http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Global Voices (@globalvoices)12/27/13 7:00 AM
Are you sick of bad news? We are! @EthanZ @solanasaurus talk solutions journalism on in 1 hourbit.ly/1g5YgN6
Stanford University (@Stanford)12/27/13 7:00 AM
Families making below $100,000 are expected to pay nothing toward tuition at Stanford. More on financial aid here: stanford.io/1edUtLK
 June Breivik (@junebre)12/26/13 6:34 AM Time to move on? -> Teens In The UK Are Calling It: 'Facebook Is Dead And Buried'businessinsider.com/teens-in- |
move on...?
or zoom out...?
Kelly Hoey (@jkhoey)12/27/13 7:18 AM
Amazon customers ordered 5+ toys per second from #mobile btw Thanksgiving & Cyber Mondaymobilecommercedaily.com/
Peter Moskowitz (@PeterMoskowitz)12/27/13 7:19 AM
Six really important stories barely anyone covered in 2013:policymic.com/articles/77139…
| UN Foundation (@unfoundation) 12/27/13 7:20 AM "The Girls Count Act of 2013 has the potential to be a powerful tool against human trafficking." Here's how: trib.al/gQaqFuv |
Eighty percent of the total children trafficked worldwide are women and girls
globally, 50 million children lack an official identity, name, and nationality, making them invisible and susceptible to human trafficking.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
tweets
Towards a Basic Income Law - P2P Foundation
http://p2pfoundation.net/
Towards Collaborat
http://p2pfoundation.net/PHOTOS: Humans of the Middle East and North Africa · Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ Aron Solomon (@aronsolomon)12/25/13 5:52 AM My very concise thoughts today @Medium as to why we should bet on #innovation:medium.com/p/4e028b42f797 |
redo..
ready...
do over
Brad Feld ( Maria Popova (@brainpicker)12/23/13 3:42 PM The 13 best books of 2013 – the definitive annual reading list of overall favoritesj.mp/J9EcOg
In a planet occupied now by seven billion inhabitants, I am amazed by the difference that one human being can make. Think of classical music without Mozart or Stravinsky; of painting without Caravaggio, Picasso or Pollock; of drama without Shakespeare or Beckett. Think of the incredible contributions of Michelangelo or Leonardo, or, in recent times, the outpouring of deep feeling at the death of Steve Jobs (or, for that matter, Michael Jackson or Princess Diana). Think of human values in the absence of Moses or Christ.
[…]
Despite the laudatory efforts of scientists to ferret out patterns in human behavior, I continue to be struck by the impact of single individuals, or of small groups, working against the odds. As scholars, we cannot and should not sweep these instances under the investigative rug. We should bear in mind anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous injunction: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.’ - H Gardner
Discoverin
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 Clay Forsberg (@clayforsberg)12/26/13 6:58 AM Wish same could be said for their parents.RT "The Kids Are Alright: Millennials Want Jobs That Fix Social Problems" f-st.co/Wkg8Ly2 |
do they even want jobs ...?
The young and insecure can change the world | Daniel Swedin | Core Chronicle | Editorial | Aftonblade
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we forget that there is a world beyond ourselves that can be changed.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
tweets
I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System - Bobby Constantin
http://www.theatlantic.com/The Best Extensions and Add-Ons to Beef Up YouTube
http://lifehacker.com/the-
Utah Is on Track to End Homelessne
http://www.nationswell.com/
Dangerous Minds | The Future of Life on Earth and Capitalism
http://dangerousminds.net/future of life on earth and capitalism..
we need to upcycle (iwan baan style) in order to reverse consumerism..
2013 In 1.5 Minutes According To Google | The 'BCO Morning Show
Gary Slutkin, MD (@GSlutkin)12/24/13 7:35 AM
1st hand report from @howden_africa: #SouthSudan #violence epidemic-week 1- truckloads of bodies & hidden massacres theguardian.com/world/2013/
UnLtd (@UnLtd)12/24/13 7:40 AM
We've awarded 15 new @g00dfornothing chapters to #SparkSomeGood across the UK this year. Get involved! goodfornothing.com
The goal here is to make the challenge big and meaningful enough to be exciting i.e. to have the potential disruptively innovate on a big social or environmental issue
Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep)12/24/13 7:41 AM
Many governments act like they can put the connectivity genie in the bottle. Well, so do many corporations. (spoiler: not happening.)
Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep)12/24/13 7:44 AM
What I mean: Censorship x (TV+social media) != Bygone world of TV only. Censorship in social media age does not bring back "TV only" days.
This True Story About Organ Traffickin
Hunger Games, Star Trek, Iron Man, and the Tea Party: Hollywood went against big government in 2013.
Monday, December 23, 2013
tweets
”Alla som ger något hjälper oss” - Sverige - Sydsvenska
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/http://suffolkresolves.com/
Despite what the Internet is describing as his carefully cultivated “Very Serious” persona, Ezra’s niche in reality is not the arcane, but the technocratic. To a technocrat, it’s a waste of time to examine any deep causes at the root of any major social and economic problems. Deep causes are irrelevant, because the status quo of capitalism and semi-functioning, corrupt-as-hell government is essentially just fine. All we need to do is tweak some laws, add some targeted corrective policies, and maybe just look at it a little bit differently, and everything can “go back” to being fine. To a technocrat, there’s nothing properly political about solving problems. As with math homework and the solving of a puzzle, there exist solutions that are objectively right. We require the presence of obscure number-fetishizing “experts” to save us from ourselves.
As a halfway intelligent person, the notion – in theory, at least – is tempting. Why wouldn’t we want smart and ideologically independent people in positions of power to solve the arithmetic problems of poverty and declining wages and flimsy economic fundamentals, to tell us what the answers are so that we don’t have to think and argue about them anymore?
Technocracy denies that actual decisions have to be made. It denies the basic agency of a people in a democratic society to debate – much less decide – what sort of society they would like to have. Technocracy subtly insists that the nature of society is immutable and therefore never part of the discussion.
The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer — Medium, Long — Medium
https://medium.com/medium-
posted on fb by howard
As John Markoff wrote in What the Dormouse Said, “Personal computers that were designed for and belonged to single individuals would emerge initially in concert with a counterculture that rejected authority and believed the human spirit would triumph over corporate technology.
Zach Klein (@zachklein)12/22/13 7:38 AM
Got to the airport, realized I left my ID at home. TSA allowed me to use my Facebook profile instead.
 Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra)12/23/13 7:45 AM Shocking & shameful. Millions Falsely Treated for Cancer says National Cancer Institute Reportalignlife.com/articles/toxic… |
Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no longer be called ‘cancer’.”
that NCI is a government-funded agency that tends to favor the conventional cancer diagnosis and treatment model, even though it has been shown to be a failure. But even worse is the inference that untold millions of healthy people have been treated with poison and radiation for conditions they never even had, which likely caused many of them to develop real cancer and even die as a result.
As it turns out, the entire concept of “early diagnosis” itself is fundamentally flawed, since many of the methods used to diagnose fail to differentiate between benign and malignant cancer cells. This means that many people who are falsely diagnosed with cancer will end up developing cancer anyway, as a result of getting treatment for cancers they did not have, a phenomenon that proves the absurdity of the entire model.
“Even in the case of finding the tumor early enough to contain it through surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation, it is well-known that the minority subpopulation of cancer stem cells within these tumors will be enriched and therefore made more malignant through conventional treatment,” explains Sayer Ji forGreenMedInfo.com.
“For instance, radiotherapy radiation wavelengths were only recently found by UCLA Jonnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to transform breast cancer cells into highly malignant cancer stem-cell like cells, with 30 times higher malignancy post-treatment.”
Cancer is really the body’s attempt to survive, not an outside attack
like fever..
like compulsory Ed..
“Our entire world view of cancer needs to shift from an enemy that ‘attacks’ us and that we must wage war against, tosomething our body does, presumably to survive an increasingly inhospitable, nutrient-deprived, carcinogen- and radiation-saturated environment,” adds Ji.
 cfee | chris thinnes (@CurtisCFEE)12/23/13 7:45 AM "Is Standardization Making Us Conform to an Ill Formed Bureaucracy?" @TheKennethYe ~@AnthonyCody ow.ly/s0Yxv #edreform #edpolicy |
same cancer 2nd verse
not granted 1 min more?..
My close friend came here last month and described the flaws inherent with the foundation of our educational bureaucracy, and I'm here today to discuss one of the consequences
Investigate the members of the Common Core work group, and you see a board comprised of members affiliated with the ACT, Collegeboard, Achieve Inc. Perhaps the mere presence of these people does not concern you, but it becomes a glaring conflict of interest. For-profit companies should not have such influence over public education.
Pearson PLC is the largest education company and book publisher in the world. Pearson Ed--the American subsidiary - not only publishes the educational materials for our schools, but also the standards and tests for the CCSS. The company stands to make billions of dollars selling these products to school districts across the United States. The CCSS furthers a process begun in 2002 with the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind
there's billions .. no?
Pearson's Chief Financial Officer, Robin Freestone said in a media statement that in 2013 "We're not going to get a significant boost from Common core" and "that won't come in 2013 and so that headwind will remain in our school business". Not only is it concerning that in fact, their market value hit its high in the past 12 years and has been steadily increasing with Common Core implementation, but it's the implications of this "school business".
Have we forgotten what education is? Education is not a business to be run. It's a process of informing human beings on how to contribute to society. A system formed on the principles of arbitrary testing cannot stand. It's not true education. But let us forget the business and politics for a moment and examine the actual tests.
It's a process of informing human beings on how to contribute to society.
or how about just facilitating that inborn knowledge/desire..
by mostly.. providing city as school.. and getting of their way... no?
We look towards PARCC assessments. Specifically called the "Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers." These nationalized tests that have been paired with Common Core are said to have one goal: "success in college and the workplace". The problems presented on these tests, however, are of justification with no merit, a learning system inherently flawed. These tests are not fair assessments of student's knowledge. If you look towards the mathematics section of the PARCC website, we see that it "calls for written arguments/justifications, critique of reasoning, or precision in mathematical statements". As a student who has scored 5s on AP Calculus, AP Statistics, and is preparing to take Calculus 3 at a local college next semester, I can honestly tell you that I cannot answer and justify your First grade Pearson math test question "What is a related Subtraction sentence?"
I know one of these factories personally. It's one that we're trying to compete with. I have been a student of both the American and Chinese systems. We see a technical outperformance by the Chinese in standardized tests. But does this communicate the creativity and inquisitive mindset in our own culture?
jiang
As someone who can perform on the tests you throw at us, I am not satisfied. I've taken your tests, aced them, pulled your state averages up, but what I show you on that test is not why I learn. CCSS.ELA-Literacy W.11-12.3e is NOT why I learn. I do not learn to fulfill some SPIs on the board. This is not what fulfills me as a student. I learn to ask questions. To develop opinions. To make a difference. It is with this that I beseech all of you to take a moment to reevaluate what you are doing to our schools. Is it truly in the best interest of the students? Should we be conforming to this ill formed bureaucracy?
Whether it was the TCAPs, ACT, or SAT, high stakes testing has always been present within my education. I have not and will not see the direct implications of Common Core's testing interfere with my learning,
the major sad part... we don't know that...
ie:what might you have done?
I think that standards can be essential to a well-functioning education system
if standard is process of learning to learn (ie:detox), founded on only crowdsourced data..
1. attachment.. everyone known by someone... 30 min a day in gathering of 7
2. authenticity.. talk to self. 3 min.. daily
Students can tell you the precise number of words they need to know to pass an entrance exam, but often times if you ask for a simple opinion, you can expect blank stares.
why are we opting to pay for a piece of paper - when it cost more than money.. it costs time - perhaps our only true value - today ness - to endure the bundle/package deal.. in order to be seen as valid?
hangout out with people.. much more valuable than paper saying you played the game.. no? barefoot movement ness.. cognitive surplus ness..
Sunday, December 22, 2013
tweets
$40k a year to attend Harvard University as me
http://pittsburgh.craigslist. HuffPostEducation (@HuffPostEdu)12/20/13 7:30 AM “To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.” -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel |
or is that just in a coercive/compulsory system...?
Knewton (@Knewton)12/20/13 7:26 AM
Knewton has raised $51 million to accelerate worldwide growth.
knewt.ly/19hdlvY
George Siemens (@gsiemens)12/20/13 7:31 AM
@mweller why are you always blogging? Shouldn't you be doing research? Next you'll start linking to your blog posts on Twitter
Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep)12/20/13 7:56 AM
Entering 3rd week. Ahmed Maher, others, too. RT @MohAbdElHamid We made a bigger fuss about#FreeAlaa last time he was arrested. Shame on us.
Jeffrey D. Sachs (@JeffDSachs)12/20/13 7:56 AM
More info on my @coursera class: “The Age of Sustainable Development” - Sign up today and join us Jan 21st! blog.coursera.org/post/
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/
sounds like a kid voice in a classroom as well.. no?
http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Paula Naugle (@plnaugle)
12/21/13 8:15 AM
Thank you #HourofCode for 10GB Dropbox increase. Nice bonus for those who participated.
Maria Popova (@brainpicker)
12/22/13 7:22 AM
25 years ago this week, Joseph Brodsky gave the best commencement address of all timej.mp/J6ltmL
ie... if Maria thinks it's best.. it's hard to not look..
not because it might be (best). but because I value her insight and want to see it clearer.. daily..
also... no marketing needed.. if I know. her.. the person..
clay Shirky ness
example.. of pay per census (although if not couched in the rest of the synchronicity - may sabotage itself)
new deal
Paula Naugle (@plnaugle)12/21/13 8:15 AM
Thank you #HourofCode for 10GB Dropbox increase. Nice bonus for those who participated.
George Couros (Maria Popova (@brainpicker)12/22/13 7:22 AM
25 years ago this week, Joseph Brodsky gave the best commencement address of all timej.mp/J6ltmL
ie... if Maria thinks it's best.. it's hard to not look..
not because it might be (best). but because I value her insight and want to see it clearer.. daily..
also... no marketing needed.. if I know. her.. the person..
clay Shirky ness
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the Holy Book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
The purpose is to enable you to articulate yourselves as fully and precisely as possible; in a word, the purpose is your balance. For the accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. On a daily basis, a lot is happening to one’s psyche; the mode of one’s expression, however, often remains the same. Articulation lags behind experience. That doesn’t go well with the psyche. Sentiments, nuances, thoughts, perceptions that remain nameless, unable to be voiced and dissatisfied with approximations, get pent up within an individual and may lead to a psychological explosion or implosion. To avoid that, one needn’t turn into a bookworm. One should simply acquire a dictionary and
and read it on the same daily basis — and, on and off, with books of poetry. Dictionaries, however, are of primary importance. There are a lot of them around; some of them even come with a magnifying glass. They are reasonably cheap, but even the most expensive among them (those equipped with a magnifying glass) cost far less than a single visit to a psychiatrist
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