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The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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7.21.09 * The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. * A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive. * As I sat in my K Street office, Fred's life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it. * It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians. * Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it.... * The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker. * A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this. * In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don't think you'll see a yellow sign that says "Think Safety!" as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make. * Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open.
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The Innovative Educator: Ten 21st Century Education Quotes I Carry With Me - 0 views
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1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.
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7.15.09 1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.
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metacool: Designing at the Boulder Digital Works - 0 views
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As John Maeda recently noted, the missing partner to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is IDEA (Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art). As a person who was trained on both sides and now works and plays across STEM and IDEA, I feel strongly that our education programs need to combine both in order to create the T-shaped people that can go out and make a difference in the world (Principle 6).
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Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price 7.14.09 - 0 views
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*One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191
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FYI: I downloaded the audiobook of this title free from Audible.com. *One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191
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NECC 2009 - Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools - 0 views
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7.15.09 *We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15 *Tools do't teach but they can change the way we teach. 22 *The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40
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7.15.09 *We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15 *Tools don't teach, but they can change the way we teach. 22 *The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40
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Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - 0 views
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7.21.09 *...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. *
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7.21.09 * ...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. * ...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. * ...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence. * The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up? * The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents. * Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it. * The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think. * The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world. * All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace. * In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them. * Data analysis, visualization, and other techniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be an increasingly valuable skillset. Employers take notice. * Anyone who searches Twitter on a trending topic has to be struck by the message: "See what's happening right now" followed, a few moments later by "42 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them." * Businesses must learn to harness real-time data as key signals that inform a far more efficient feedback loop for product development, customer service, and resource allocation. * But 2009 marks a pivot point in the history of the Web. It's time to leverage the true power of the platform we've built. The Web is no longer an industry unto itself - the Web is now the world. * ...we must take the Web to an
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7.21.09 *...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. *...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more.
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7.21.09 *...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. *...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. *...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence.
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7.21.09 *...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. *...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. *...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence. *The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up? *The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents. *Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it. *The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think. *The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world. *All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace. *In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them.
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7.21.09 *...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. *...we're constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. *...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence. *The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up? *The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents. *Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it. *The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think. *The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world. *All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace. *In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them. *Data analysis, visualization, and other techniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be an increasingly valuable skillset. Employers take notice. *Anyone who searches Twitter on a trending topic has to be struck by the message: "See what's happening right now" followed, a few moments later by "42 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them." *Businesses must learn to harness real-time data as key signals that inform a far more efficient feedback loop for product development, customer service, and resource allocation. *But 2009 marks a pivot point in the history of the Web. It's time to leverage the true power of the platform we've built. The Web is no longer an industry unto itself - the Web is now the world. *...we must take the Web to another
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