December 2010
Mind-Blowing Brain Images From Then and Now →
“tips of how leaders are using social technologies to work virtually”
– Leading Virtual Teams to Real Results - Jeanne C Meister and Karie Willyerd - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
“WoW & similar videogames as “technologies of absorption” - read...”
– Magical Flight and Monstrous Stress: Technologies … [Cult Med Psychiatry. 2010] - PubMed result
“The Delicious user community could organize to save the data themselves via a...”
– unique hazards may exist, We can save Delicious, but probably not in the way you think
“We need teachers and principals who are paid better for better performance, but...”
– U.S.G. and P.T.A. - NYTimes.com
“a good idea is of no use to you unless you can find it”
– George Carlin’s Last Interview - AUSTIN KLEON : TUMBLR
“Billed as a social network for social causes and activism, the service aims to...”
– Facebook cofounder launches Jumo, social network for activism | VentureBeat
“Tumblr is not intended to be an all-purpose content aggregator. Users who import...”
– Tumblr’s new (?) Content Policy. Thanks to Heather for pointing this out. (via theoreticalgirl)
I’m a little baffled by this & would like to know how tumblr plans to enforce it and what separates tumblr’s that “important or aggregate content in a less-than-meaningful way” from, uh, most...
“another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to...”
– Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid | | AlterNet
“so much of the human conversation has come down to bot level”
– Scocca : “Why Do You Mention Computers?”: A Conversation From the Edge of Humanity
“the United States just does not distribute financial resources or quality...”
– The Answer Sheet - What international test scores really tell us: Lessons buried in PISA report
“Parents want far more education & leadership about online privacy, &...”
– National Poll: Three Out of Four Parents Say Social Networks Aren’t Protecting Kids’ Online Privacy
“Twitter only has a 4% active use rate & 8% occasional use rate among young...”
– US Youth Use SocNets
UF Colloquium on Teaching and Learning →
Wendy Drexler and I discuss personal learning environments and massively open online courses at the University of Florida College of Education.
“Twitter just offers no value to teenagers.”
– Why Teens Don’t And Won’t Tweet
“In my country, we are in education because we believe in cooperation and...”
– Hechinger Report | What can we learn from Finland?: A Q&A with Dr. Pasi Sahlberg
“we still fixate on inputs, e.g., how much money we are pouring into the system...”
– Your Child Left Behind - Magazine - The Atlantic
“We need the courage, the character, the moral fiber and the smarts to implement...”
– The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: US education: a grave failure of national management & character
“Listen, dudes: the history of consumer tech is branching, not replacing.”
– Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech Beat — State of the Art - NYTimes.com