Ask questions; the person you’re speaking with will respect your inquisitiveness and become more interested in the exchange. “Asking questions makes people feel valued,”
your monkey called · You Are Boring - 89 views
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The people who were interesting told good stories. They were also inquisitive: willing to work to expand their social and intellectual range. Most important, interesting people were also the best listeners. They knew when to ask questions.
The CRAP Test | Work Literacy - 106 views
Bad News : CJR - 30 views
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Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
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the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
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last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 204 views
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how savvy
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If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
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intelligent search a key to everyday problem-solving
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All subjects need to teach students how to search for, analyze and utilize digital information within the subject area. This is where students will be getting info until someone pulls the plug or locks them in a bookmobile.
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"We're often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us. But just how savvy are they? ,,, High school and college students may be "digital natives," but they're wretched at searching."
Op-Ed Columnist - 'No Picnic for Me Either' - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“We’ve seen a race to the bottom. States are lying to children. They are lying to parents. They’re ignoring failure, and that’s unacceptable. We have to be fierce.”
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real results.
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liberal orthodoxy
quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more - 6 views
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Video without the distractions To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace. You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.
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quietube: Video without the distractions
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Gets rid of distracting ads for presentations.
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