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Dave Truss

RiP! A remix manifesto (Trailer) by Brett Gaylor, - NFB - 0 views

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copyright newliteracy

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  • Dave Truss on 18 Mar 09
     
    Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 21st century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride
Maggie Verster

Making Curriculum Pop - 11 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 16 Jun 10
     
    Using popukar culture in your classroom. This network has lots of special interest groups and great ideas
Vicki Davis

Facebook and iPhone Lead Way on Klout's Top Topics of 2011 Lists [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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Education twitter trends

shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Dec 11
     
    This infographic from Kliut depicts the most popular conversations and people on Twitter. No doubt,MIT is a hub for pop culture. But there are great microconversations happening in education using this site so don't let the trivial steer you away.
Vicki Davis

Oscar nominations: Complete list of of 86th annual Academy Award nominees | Fox News - 1 views

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education popculture Oscar news

shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14
     
    I'm officially clueless and haven't even seen one of the nominations for Best Picture. Here's the full list of Oscar Nominations for those of you (like me) who need to get a little pop culture into your life. These are the things many of our kids talk about so they become important to me. Nominees for best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, and the Wolf of Wall Street. Many of these are a bit dark (understatement) and thus may not be something I choose to watch, but we can at least be familiar with the themes and what they are.
Vicki Davis

Fakebook Gallery - 6 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Dec 13
     
    Fakebook is an awesome tool from classtools.net to use to have students create pages about just about any person in history, literature, or pop culture. Here's the gallery of many of the current people to see how this works. The link is at the top to make your own.
Martin Burrett

Inspirograph - 7 views

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maths art

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Dec 14
     
    A fun online Spirograph, great for maths lessons, looking at cogs and cams in D&T and pop culture in art.
Martin Burrett

Crumbles - 11 views

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video video clips words

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jan 15
     
    A site that collects pop-culture video clips of single words which you type. Use it for an interesting twist to giving instructions or a learning objective.
Ed Webb

Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 2 views

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  • I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
  • if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
  • the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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  • Education’s job should be, says Kay, to bridge this gap. To help, that is, people form these necessary new idea-receiving categories–teaching them the capacity for ideas–early on in their lives, so that as they grow they are ready to embrace the things we need them to know. Let me say that in a better way: so that as they grow they are ready to know in the ways we need them to know.
  • cultivate the ability to conceive of, work with, create, understand, manipulate, tinker with, disrupt, and, generally, appreciate the beauty of systems
  • Seeing systems is an epistemology, a way of knowing, a mindset
  • a game, or a simulation, thought of as a thing we might create (rather than a thing we only act within), is a visceral example of systems thinking
  • It’s the Flatland story–that we need to train our 2D minds to see in a kind of 3D–and Kay’s genius is that he recognizes we have to bake this ability into the species, through education, as close to birth as possible.
  • Systems thinking is to be conceived of as a platform skill or an increased capacity on top of which we will be able to construct new sorts of ideas and ways of knowing, of more complex natures still. The step beyond seeing a single system is of course the ability to see interacting systems – a kind of meta-systemic thinking – and this is what I think Kay is really interested in, because it’s what he does. At one point he showed a slide of multiple systems–the human body, the environment, the internet, and he said in a kind of aside, “they’re all one system . . .”
  • The point is to be able to see connections between the silos. Says Kay, the liberal arts have done a bad job at “adding in epistemology” among the “smokestacks” (i.e. disciplines)
  • What happens when you’re stuck in a system? You don’t understand the world and yourself and others as existing in constant development, as being in process; you think you are a fixed essence or part within a system (instead of a system influencing systems) and you inadvertently trap yourself in a kind of tautological loop where you can only think about things you’re thinking about and do the things you do and you thus limit yourself to a kind of non-nutritive regurgitation of factoids, or the robotic meaningless actions of an automaton, or what Kay calls living in a pop culture
  • A downside of being epistemologically limited to thinking within a system is that you overemphasize the importance of the content and facts as that system orders them
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