A while back, I was talking with a teenage girl about her privacy settings and noticed that she had made lots of content available to friends-of-friends. I asked her if she made her content available to her mother. She responded with, “of course not!” I had noticed that she had listed her aunt as a friend of hers and so I surfed with her to her aunt’s page and pointed out that her mother was a friend of her aunt, thus a friend-of-a-friend. She was horrified. It had never dawned on her that her mother might be included in that grouping.

They never imagine that “everyone” includes every third party sucking up data for goddess only knows what purpose.

When they think of everyone, they think of individual people who might have an interest in them, not 3rd party services who want to monetize or redistribute their data.

Professor John Hattie Visible Learning, Tomorrow's Schools, and the Mindsets that make the difference in Education

, Why everything seems to work in Education, and Why certain Mindsets among educators truly make the difference. The session is concerned with the key issues that NZ could be dealing with that led to retaining our eminent status in schooling, and what may be needed to ensure all are educated to promote a worthwhile society.

I watch it when I need it and in ways that I need it. And that makes a huge difference.”

“About five years ago my students stopped taking notes,” Rankin said. “I asked, ‘Why are you not taking notes?’ And they said, ‘Why would we take notes on that?…. I can go to Wikipedia or go to Google, and I can get all the information I need.”

Then, using polling software that Abilene coded for the iPhone, students can answer the questions anonymously by sending responses electronically with their iPhones. The software can also quickly quiz students to gauge whether they’re understanding the lesson.