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Quynh Vu Do

Ocean Plastic Solutions from Cities, Brands & Waste Collectors - 2 views

www.waste360.com/...cities-brands-waste-collectors

CIJ2020 pollution

shared by Quynh Vu Do on 10 Jul 20 - No Cached
  • Quynh Vu Do on 10 Jul 20
     
    Podcast (29 mn) and transcript from Liz Bothwell talk on June 29, 2020
Martin Burrett

The danger of colour stereotypes by @BoltCallum - 5 views

ukedchat.com/...colour-stereotypes

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 Feb 19
     
    "Colours promote such emotion and are attributed to everything we see every day. Children are taught from a very young age that the sky and the ocean are blue, the grass and leaves are green, that the sun, sand and sunflowers are yellow and the night is black. But I ask you, how often have you looked at the ocean and seen green, not blue or looked up into the branches and seen a selection of oranges, yellows, browns and reds not a blanket of green. I am not suggesting that we shouldn't teach children these colour clichés, at a young age they are their first experiences of colour and form the bases of many of their first art pieces."
Martin Burrett

Windy - 14 views

ukedchat.com/windy

weather waves wind ocean geography

shared by Martin Burrett on 21 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 21 Sep 18
     
    "A mesmerising animated map is weather and other data layers, including winds, wave direction and and height, clouds, CO2 concentration and much more."
ekbrabant

Here's What We Can Expect From El Niño This Year | TIME - 19 views

time.com/...-expect-from-el-nino-this-year

el nino

shared by ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • forecasters have little ability to predict how intense future El Niño episodes will be. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) it is also near impossible to pinpoint the exact dates that El Niño will begin.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      Some atmospheric phenomena can be predicted and some cannot.
  • Within the next month more details regarding El Niño and when it will begin will become clearer.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      As more data is collected more patterns may be apparent, and hypotheses can be supported.
  • 90% chance of striking again this year
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder how scientists have come to this claim...
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  • Western Pacific and parts of Australia
  • Australia
  • damages the agricultural industries in countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean such as Indonesia, and the Philippines.
  • The results of the El Niño events in 1997-1998 were by far the worst in recent history,
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      I wonder what happened. I wonder what the effects were.
  • South Asia will likely be hit first with heavy rain and flooding.
    • ekbrabant
      ekbrabant on 16 Jun 14
       
      El Nino seems to cause a lot of problems. I wonder what caused scientists to think that all of these were related to El Nino.
K Couch

Abundance of Elements | visualizing.org - 78 views

www.visualizing.org/...abundance-elements

abundance elements science

shared by K Couch on 20 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • K Couch on 20 Nov 13
     
    abundance of elements visualization- compare abundance of minerals in the universe compared to Earth, atmosphere, in a human, the ocean, etc. 
pjimison

Technology is Too Powerful | infuselearning - 38 views

www.infuselearning.com/?p=460

shared by pjimison on 25 Oct 13 - Cached
  • We want to: promote educational change through empowering teachers and bringing students to the center of the learning conversation through simple, easy to use technology.
  • Technology is too powerful to not allow teachers to provide unique and differentiated learning opportunities and effective questions to meet the variety of students in today’s classrooms.
  • Technology is too powerful to not provide accessibility features that fill in the gaps where a different learning style or special need or other exceptionality would typically or potentially impede learning.
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  • Technology is too powerful to be confined to the walls of one classroom and not connect and reach a global audience and link learners across oceans and cultural differences and languages.
  • Technology is too powerful to continue in a failed system of bubble sheets and a single “right” answer; our kids deserve better systems of teaching and learning.
  • Technology is too powerful to not be leveraged for the benefit of our students.
  • pjimison on 25 Oct 13
     
    I love their vision - to promote educational change through empowering teachers and bringing students to the center of the learning conversation through simple, easy to use technology. Amen?!
David Weightman

Skype goes Under Water - 28 views

blogs.skype.com/...skype-goes-under-water

Science Skype

shared by David Weightman on 18 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • David Weightman on 18 Jun 13
     
    In October, Fabien Cousteau (grandson of famed explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau) will be leading a record-breaking marine expedition known as Mission 31 living underwater in the Aquarius Laboratory for 31 days and spending 6-9 hours per day exploring the ocean.
Brandie Hayes

World's Largest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant Planned for China | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building - 31 views

inhabitat.com/ersion-plant-planned-for-china

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  • Brandie Hayes on 27 Apr 13
     
    2:50 video and article about a new Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant to be built in China by Lockheed Martin. It will be the worlds largest.
Andrew McCluskey

Occupy Your Brain - 111 views

schoolingtheworld.org/...occupy

education education reform education system schooling pedagogy indigenous indigenous pedagogies knowledge alternative education standardization state standards national standards global standards power authority intellect

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  • One of the most profound changes that occurs when modern schooling is introduced into traditional societies around the world is a radical shift in the locus of power and control over learning from children, families, and communities to ever more centralized systems of authority.
  • Once learning is institutionalized under a central authority, both freedom for the individual and respect for the local are radically curtailed.  The child in a classroom generally finds herself in a situation where she may not move, speak, laugh, sing, eat, drink, read, think her own thoughts, or even  use the toilet without explicit permission from an authority figure.
  • In what should be considered a chilling development, there are murmurings of the idea of creating global standards for education – in other words, the creation of a single centralized authority dictating what every child on the planet must learn.
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  • In “developed” societies, we are so accustomed to centralized control over learning that it has become functionally invisible to us, and most people accept it as natural, inevitable, and consistent with the principles of freedom and democracy.   We assume that this central authority, because it is associated with something that seems like an unequivocal good – “education” – must itself be fundamentally good, a sort of benevolent dictatorship of the intellect. 
  • We endorse strict legal codes which render this process compulsory, and in a truly Orwellian twist, many of us now view it as a fundamental human right to be legally compelled to learn what a higher authority tells us to learn.
  • And yet the idea of centrally-controlled education is as problematic as the idea of centrally-controlled media – and for exactly the same reasons.
  • The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect all forms of communication, information-sharing, knowledge, opinion and belief – what the Supreme Court has termed “the sphere of intellect and spirit” – from government control.
  • by the mid-19th century, with Indians still to conquer and waves of immigrants to assimilate, the temptation to find a way to manage the minds of an increasingly diverse and independent-minded population became too great to resist, and the idea of the Common School was born.
  • We would keep our freedom of speech and press, but first we would all be well-schooled by those in power.
  • A deeply democratic idea — the free and equal education of every child — was wedded to a deeply anti-democratic idea — that this education would be controlled from the top down by state-appointed educrats.
  • The fundamental point of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that the apparatus of democratic government has been completely bought and paid for by a tiny number of grotesquely wealthy individuals, corporations, and lobbying groups.  Our votes no longer matter.  Our wishes no longer count.  Our power as citizens has been sold to the highest bidder.
  • Our kids are so drowned in disconnected information that it becomes quite random what they do and don’t remember, and they’re so overburdened with endless homework and tests that they have little time or energy to pay attention to what’s happening in the world around them.
  • If in ten years we can create Wikipedia out of thin air, what could we create if we trusted our children, our teachers, our parents, our neighbors, to generate community learning webs that are open, alive, and responsive to individual needs and aspirations?  What could we create if instead of trying to “scale up” every innovation into a monolithic bureaucracy we “scaled down” to allow local and individual control, freedom, experimentation, and diversity?
  • The most academically “gifted” students excel at obedience, instinctively shaping their thinking to the prescribed curriculum and unconsciously framing out of their awareness ideas that won’t earn the praise of their superiors.  Those who resist sitting still for this process are marginalized, labeled as less intelligent or even as mildly brain-damaged, and, increasingly, drugged into compliance.
  • the very root, the very essence, of any theory of democratic liberty is a basic trust in the fundamental intelligence of the ordinary person.   Democracy rests on the premise that the ordinary person — the waitress, the carpenter, the shopkeeper — is competent to make her own judgments about matters of domestic policy, international affairs, taxes, justice, peace, and war, and that the government must abide by the decisions of ordinary people, not vice versa.  Of course that’s not the way our system really works, and never has been.   But most of us recall at some deep level of our beings that any vision of a just world relies on this fundamental respect for the common sense of the ordinary human being.
  • This is what we spend our childhood in school unlearning. 
  • If before we reach the age of majority we must submit our brains for twelve years of evaluation and control by government experts, are we then truly free to exercise our vote according to the dictates of our own common sense and conscience?  Do we even know what our own common sense is anymore?
  • We live in a country where a serious candidate for the Presidency is unaware that China has nuclear weapons, where half the population does not understand that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, where nobody pays attention as Congress dismantles the securities regulations that limit the power of the banks, where 45% of American high school students graduate without knowing that the First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press.   At what point do we begin to ask ourselves if we are trying to control quality in the wrong way?
  • Human beings, collaborating with one another in voluntary relationships, communicating and checking and counter-checking and elaborating and expanding on one another’s knowledge and intelligence, have created a collective public resource more vast and more alive than anything that has ever existed on the planet.
  • But this is not a paeon to technology; this is about what human intelligence is capable of when people are free to interact in open, horizontal, non-hierarchical networks of communication and collaboration.
  • Positive social change has occurred not through top-down, hierarchically controlled organizations, but through what the Berkana Institute calls “emergence,” where people begin networking and forming voluntary communities of practice. When the goal is to maximize the functioning of human intelligence, you need to activate the unique skills, talents, and knowledge bases of diverse individuals, not put everybody through a uniform mill to produce uniform results. 
  • You need a non-punitive structure that encourages collaboration rather than competition, risk-taking rather than mistake-avoidance, and innovation rather than repetition of known quantities.
  • if we really want to return power to the 99% in a lasting, stable, sustainable way, we need to begin the work of creating open, egalitarian, horizontal networks of learning in our communities.
  • They are taught to focus on competing with each other and gaming the system rather than on gaining a deep understanding of the way power flows through their world.
  • And what could we create, what ecological problems could we solve, what despair might we alleviate, if instead of imposing our rigid curriculum and the destructive economy it serves on the entire world, we embraced as part of our vast collective intelligence the wisdom and knowledge of the world’s thousands of sustainable indigenous cultures?
  • They knew this about their situation: nobody was on their side.  Certainly not the moneyed classes and the economic system, and not the government, either.  So if they were going to change anything, it had to come out of themselves.
  • As our climate heats up, as mountaintops are removed from Orissa to West Virginia, as the oceans fill with plastic and soils become too contaminated to grow food, as the economy crumbles and children go hungry and the 0.001% grows so concentrated, so powerful, so wealthy that democracy becomes impossible, it’s time to ask ourselves; who’s educating us?  To what end?  The Adivasis are occupying their forests and mountains as our children are occupying our cities and parks.  But they understand that the first thing they must take back is their common sense. 
  • They must occupy their brains.
  • Isn’t it time for us to do the same?
  • Andrew McCluskey on 11 Feb 13
     
    Carol Black, creator of the documentary, "Schooling the World" discusses the conflicting ideas of centralized control of education and standardization against the so-called freedom to think independently--"what the Supreme Court has termed 'the sphere of intellect and spirit" (Black, 2012). Root questions: "who's educating us? to what end?" (Black, 2012).
  • Andrew McCluskey on 11 Feb 13
     
    This is a must read. Carol Black echoes here many of the ideas of Paulo Freire, John Taylor Gatto and the like.
Jasmane Frans

Ocean Fun Facts - Continents and Oceans for Kids - 4 views

sites.google.com/...ocean-fun-facts

shared by Jasmane Frans on 25 Nov 12 - No Cached
    • Jasmane Frans
      Jasmane Frans on 25 Nov 12
       
      Students, memorize this to remember the oceans. 
Jeff Woodcock

Why do so many oil spills happen? - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...y-do-so-many-oil-spills-happen

spills oil

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    • Jeff Woodcock
      Jeff Woodcock on 20 Nov 12
       
      hard part
  • Jeff Woodcock on 20 Nov 12
     
    "n brief, because there are a lot of tricky steps to get oil from inside the Earth to inside, say, your gas tank. Oil spills can be caused by the accidental or intentional release of any form of petroleum during any point in the oil production process, from drilling, refining, or storing to transporting. Oil can be spilled when a pipeline breaks, ships collide or are grounded (as happened earlier this month along the Great Barrier Reef), underground storage tanks leak, or in the current case, when an oil rig explodes or is damaged. IN PICTURES: Big Environmental Disasters Some oil was spilled when the Deepwater Horizon rig first burst into flames on April 20 in the Gulf, injuring crew members and sending a billowing plume of black smoke into the sky that could be seen by satellite. The oil rig, located about 51 miles (82 kilometers) southeast of Venice, La., then sank into the Gulf waters Thursday morning, creating concern that more oil could spill. Oil spills can also happen naturally: Oil is released into the ocean from natural oil seeps on the seafloor. The best known such seep is Coal Oil Point along the California coast where an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons (7,570 to 11,400 liters) of crude oil is released each day."
Jeff Woodcock

FAQs : Oil in the Ocean - 0 views

www.whoi.edu/...page.do

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    • Jeff Woodcock
      Jeff Woodcock on 20 Nov 12
       
      Oil is a chemical!
    • Jeff Woodcock
      Jeff Woodcock on 20 Nov 12
       
      good
    • Jeff Woodcock
      Jeff Woodcock on 20 Nov 12
       
      thank you
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Jon Dorbolo

How to Build a Successful Application Portfolio Management Solution « Because Process Matters - 33 views

www.becauseprocessmatters.com/-portfolio-management-solution

application portfolio management

shared by Jon Dorbolo on 20 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • 2.  Facilitate collaboration between business and IT
    • Jon Dorbolo
      Jon Dorbolo on 20 Nov 12
       
      In OSU's case this is analogous to facilitating collaboration between Faculty and IT.
  • 3.  Don’t try to boil the ocean
    • Jon Dorbolo
      Jon Dorbolo on 20 Nov 12
       
      Start with a small set of well integrated apps. Train to enterprise-wide proficiency. OSU is poised to do this with Google apps.
  • 5.  Build a repository of APM information
    • Jon Dorbolo
      Jon Dorbolo on 20 Nov 12
       
      Assess -- revise -- reassess -- til the end of time.
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  • How to Build a Successful Application Portfolio Management Solution
  • more often than not, these purchases happen in an ad-hoc manner within a specific department or business unit, resulting in a business owning hundreds (maybe even thousands) of redundant, overlapping, and ultimately, outdated applications.
Marc Patton

Google unveils first-ever underwater "street-view" (and it's amazing) | VentureBeat - 3 views

venturebeat.com/...er-street-view-and-its-amazing

Media_Resources Ocean Science STEM Social_Studies Teacher_Resources Google

shared by Marc Patton on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 28 Sep 12
     
    Google unveils first-ever underwater "street-view" (and it's amazing)
Carla Shinn

Help for the High Seas: The Terramar Project - 3 views

us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5b63a0823e3b9c105434c46d7&id=2debf01b25&e=46193d61ef

science environment environmental oceans

shared by Carla Shinn on 12 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 12 Aug 12
     
    Who owns the seas? For 64 percent of the world's oceans-the amount that lies beyond national jurisdictions-the answer is no one. The high seas, as they're known, are like the planet's commons: since they don't really belong to anyone, no nation invests enough in offering them the protection they deserve, even though they constitute 45 percent of the planet's surface area.
Martin Burrett

One Ocean - 115 views

oneocean.cbc.ca/game

ocean nature sea animals science

shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Jul 12
     
    An amazing set of resources to explore the world's oceans in a 3D virtual environment. Swim with killer whales or drift along and watch sea turtles cruise by. You can even complete missions, including exploring the deepest place in the oceans. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Build a fish - 126 views

sv.berkeley.edu/...fish.swf

fish ecology habitat science

shared by Martin Burrett on 29 May 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 29 May 12
     
    A useful science resource about many ocean habitats and the adaptions fish have to survive there. Design your fish to thrive in the habitat. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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