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Megan Stern

American Thinker: The Disappearing Middle Class - 0 views

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Communism Socialism digiciv Marx middle class Tea Party conservative

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  • The government is helping out, "redistributing" money to the bottom. "The Rich" can use their money and influence to get in. The middle class gets no special consideration or privilege. Because they do work hard, they get to work harder -- and the Ruling Class calls this "justice."
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
       
      So. True.
  • And this is what the Tea Party is really mad about.
  • And the balance between the lower class and their upper-class leaders is upset by the injection of the middle class and its struggles to carve out its niche.
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  • His Communist Manifesto is nothing more than a rant about the evils of this group and how they have inflicted harm and damage to everyone around them through colonialism and ingenuity.
  • Marx and Engels envisioned a return to the simpler time, where a vast lower class was ruled by its betters. Not surprisingly, they saw themselves as leading the underlings to the new paradise.
  • their opinions are tainted by "greed" (the single biggest sin of the bourgeoisie).
  • The byproduct of this Socialization is the shrinking of the middle class. When you punish people for working hard, those people will stop working so hard.
  • se bailouts are transfers of wealth -- not from the rich to the poor, but from the working middle class to both the upper and lower classes.
  • True: all the
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Concisely presents the consensual argument most conservatives adopt against Marx's principles in our day.
Gideon Burton

New Media Studies Syllabus - Rutgers - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...63061

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  • Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10
     
    Christina Dunbar-Hester talks through her new media studies course outline at Rutgers
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10
     
    This is a good example of how social filters work. A former student sent me the link to this via Twitter, and the professor for this course has made a very solid outline of issues that compare to our Digital Civ themes. Good bibliography, too.
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Gideon Burton

Finding Mentors via New Media - 0 views

www.ed4wb.org/?p=697

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  • Gideon Burton on 23 Nov 10
     
    Excellent article about using New Media to find mentors (with a great chart about varieties of traditional and new mentoring)
Gideon Burton

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
  • This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12
     
    A 2008 article in which the new kinds of digital relationships made possible through Facebook and other social media are discussed. Digital friends have "ambient awareness" through news feeds, begging the question about kind of friendship and their authenticity.
Greg Williams

Connectivism - 1 views

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Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

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  • Do we acquire it throu
  • These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
  • In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years.
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  • The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking
  • learning as a lasting changed state (emotional, mental, physiological (i.e. skills)) brought about as a result of experiences and interactions with content or other people.
  • Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
  • Behaviorism states that learning is largely unknowable, that is, we can’t possibly understand what goes on inside a person (the “black box theory”)
  • Cognitivism often takes a computer information processing model. Learning is viewed as a process of inputs, managed in short term memory, and coded for long-term recall.
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Constructivism assumes that learners are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, learners are actively attempting to create meaning. Learners often select and pursue their own learning. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex.
  • learning that occurs outside of people
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • In today’s environment, action is often needed without personal learning – that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
  • We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
  • Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
  • The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
  • A network can simply be defined as connections between entities.
  • Nodes that successfully acquire greater profile will be more successful at acquiring additional connections
  • Finding a new job, as an example, often occurs through weak ties. This principle has great merit in the notion of serendipity, innovation, and creativity. Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
  • The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • example of a Maricopa County Community College system project that links senior citizens with elementary school students in a mentor program. The children “listen to these “grandparents” better than they do their own parents, the mentoring really helps the teachers…the small efforts of the many- the seniors – complement the large efforts of the few – the teachers.” (2002). This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Implications
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application.
  • acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12
     
    "Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper
Kristi Koerner

New science theory and key issues in physics theory - 0 views

www.new-science-theory.com

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    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 20 Sep 10
       
      This cool SitePal feature with text-to-speech is really fun to play with!
  • Kristi Koerner on 20 Sep 10
     
    Interesting site on New Science Theory including physics and Descartes.
Kristi Koerner

Does the Social Network Come With a Social Contract? - 0 views

www.politicsdaily.com/...rk-come-with-a-social-contract

social contract digiciv network

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  • Kristi Koerner on 30 Sep 10
     
    WONDERFUL site on networks and the social contract! Does our new digital age have a new social contract and rules? Different protocol?
Kevin Watson

Reassessing the industrial revolution - 0 views

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digiciv industrial revolution

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  • Energy and the English Industrial Revolution, which is launched this week, suggests that the era not only stimulated unprecedented progress and growth, but opened a "Pandora's Box" of hazards. While new wealth was created and entire populations lifted out of poverty, the nature of economies also changed dramatically - from forms that were naturally self-limiting, to models which involve plundering finite natural resources without heeding the attendant dangers.
  • Kevin Watson on 04 Oct 10
     
    New views on the negative side of the Industrial Revolution
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Can avatars and hyper-real video conferencing replace business meetings? - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11493961

digiciv economy

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 12 Oct 10
     
    An innovative look at possible new business tools.
James Wilcox

The NEW LDS.org - 1 views

new.lds.org

digiciv mormon web2.0

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  • James Wilcox on 26 Oct 10
     
    I have had a lot of fun with this. There is a new ward callendar and directory that are far easier to use and add to then the old calendars and are far more efficent. Also, as a Ward Executive Secretary it allows me to get on to a large chunk of the MLS enabling me to get most of my work done without having to kick the Ward Clerk off of the churches computers.
  • Trevor Cox on 26 Oct 10
     
    So cool! I love this. We just went over all this in church. You gotta love having the best calling!
Katherine Chipman

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 0 views

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  • Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
  • HomeThe Newsroom BlogMultimediaPhotosVideoAudio
  • New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
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  • may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
  • we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
  • Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
  • This is your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the work of the Lord?
  • The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to almost every corner of the earth.
  • Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
Andrew DeWitt

BBC News - It's good to think - but not too much, scientists say - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-11340881

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    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 19 Sep 10
       
      Do the people develop those cells because they learn to think about their choices? Or do the cells naturally develop there and then cause the person to think about their choices?
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 20 Sep 10
       
      That's a good which came first question.  I thought the "working memory" was interesting.  It makes me think about cramming for a test.  You shove as much into your brain to work with as possible.  So, some brains are more prone to test-cramming than others.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 20 Sep 10
     
    Cool page about decision making.
Chase McCloskey

New LDS Website - 1 views

new.lds.org/?lang=eng

lds new media

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  • Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10
     
    The Church is also working to stay caught up in all the digital advancements we've had over the last few years. The site still isn't completely finished but once it is it will replace the current lds.org
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Op-Ed Playlist - Video Library - The New York Times - 0 views

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education stress testing documentary achievement digiciv web2.0

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 28 Sep 10
     
    Course content quality vs. course content quantity.  Remember AP classes?  I loved them!  This is a new perspective.
Kevin Watson

$2 billion buys a lot of nothing | Dayton Daily News Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
       
      This is the scary view of the "virtual" world. It is the point when you know you are spending too much time online. Go outside! Go Hiking! Take someone to a restaurant! Spend your money on something TANGIBLE!
  • Danny Patterson on 27 Sep 10
     
    Addresses the current market within virtual economies and how people are spending REAL money for non-existing goods/services.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - YouTube drive to 'crowd-read' Spain classic Don Quixote - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-11449510

Digital literature Don Quixote news

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 01 Oct 10
     
    A great example of how people are using the digital age to bring back classic stories from the past. Who doesn't love Don Quixote?
Brian Earley

Band-Aids - 1 views

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digiciv

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  • Brian Earley on 23 Sep 10
     
    It was nice to see a new perspective on algorithms. It was a good example. Experience is the best teacher.
Madeline Rupard

"All the trees of the field shall clap their hands": My new photography blog/ visual essay - 3 views

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digiciv blog art photography tumblr visual truth mormon communication

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  • Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10
     
    A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
  • Mike Lemon on 25 Oct 10
     
    I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
Kristi Koerner

New Religious Movements - 0 views

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  • Kristi Koerner on 20 Oct 10
     
    Helpful source discussing why new religions can emerge
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