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Vicki Davis

Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Clay Shirky speaks of a day in the not-too-distant future when human resources departments will have the wisdom to look beyond social networking faux pas — at least in some small part because by then, everyone will have made at least one.
  • Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., tweeted this as-it-happens update regarding his group’s location and destination:"Moved into green zone by helicopter Iraqi flag now over palace. Headed to new US embassy Appears calmer less chaotic than previous here."
  • This social networking comedy of errors spread like dancing hamsters across Twitter. In the retelling, "theconnor" earned the nick, "Cisco Fatty." Before the work day ended, Web sleuths revealed "theconnor's" true identity. "Theconnor" was lampooned in a popular YouTube meme. And thanks to Google Cache, the deleted content of "theconnor’s" homepage resurfaced on CiscoFatty.com, a Web site erected to commemorate this cautionary tale.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Mar 09
     
    Students need to understand that NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING Is private. Great case study about how 140 characters got someone fired before they were even hired.
Qien Kuen

Top 10 Edtech News etc thingers of 2008 « Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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  • 10. Blogging is dead
  • 9. Wikipedia is old
  • 8. There are alot of people who still - just. don’t. get it.
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  • 7. PLN vs. PLE
  • 6. Open Viewers MUVEs for the plebes
  • 5. MOOCS - Massive Online Open Courses
  • 4. Whisper of Green
  • 3. Bring on the research
  • 2. Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communities Ewan McIntosh
  • 1. Death of ‘T’ruth and the killer app
Vicki Davis

The Chapter 18 Project | Thomas L. Friedman - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Sep 08
     
    Chapter 18 for Hot, Flat and Crowded -- you can contribute your best ideas for clean energy, energy efficience, and what can be done for chapter 18 -- please share. Authors are increasingly willing to communicate and share information in print received online. This would be something great for kids.
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Sep 08
     
    Sharing information about environmental best practices for Tom Friedman's new book.
Clif Mims

Green Students Fundraising - 0 views

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  • Clif Mims on 25 Jul 08
     
    A fresh idea to meet growing fundraising needs.
Todd Suomela

Dissent Magazine - Debt Education - 0 views

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shared by Todd Suomela on 14 Apr 08 - Cached
  • First, debt teaches that higher education is a consumer service. It is a pay-as-you-go transaction, like any other consumer enterprise, subject to the business franchises attached to education.
  • Second, debt teaches career choices. It teaches that it would be a poor choice to wait on tables while writing a novel or become an elementary school teacher at $24,000 or join the Peace Corps. It rules out culture industries such as publishing or theater or art galleries that pay notoriously little or nonprofits like community radio or a women’s shelter. The more rational choice is to work for a big corporation or go to law school
  • Fourth, debt teaches civic lessons. It teaches that the state’s role is to augment commerce, abetting consuming, which spurs producing; its role is not to interfere with the market, except to catalyze it. Debt teaches that the social contract is an obligation to the institutions of capital, which in turn give you all of the products on the shelves.
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  • Third, debt teaches a worldview. Following up on the way that advertising indoctrinates children into the market, as Juliet Schor shows in Born to Buy, student loans directly conscript college students. Debt teaches that the primary ordering principle of the world is the capitalist market, and that the market is natural, inevitable, and implacable. There is no realm of human life anterior to the market; ideas, knowledge, and even sex (which is a significant part of the social education of college students) simply form sub-markets. Debt teaches that democracy is a market; freedom is the ability to make choices from all the shelves. And the market is a good: it promotes better products through competition rather than aimless leisure; and it is fair because, like a casino, the rules are clear, and anyone—black, green, or white—can lay down chips.
  • Fifth, debt teaches the worth of a person. Worth is measured not according to a humanistic conception of character, cultivation of intellect and taste, or knowledge of the liberal arts, but according to one’s financial potential. Education provides value-added to the individual so serviced, in a simple equation: you are how much you can make, minus how much you owe. Debt teaches that the disparities of wealth are an issue of the individual, rather than society; debt is your free choice.
  • Last, debt teaches a specific sensibility. It inculcates what Barbara Ehrenreich calls “the fear of falling,” which she defines as the quintessential attitude of members of the professional middle class who attain their standing through educational credentials rather than wealth. It inducts students into the realm of stress, worry, and pressure, reinforced with each monthly payment for the next fifteen years.
Brian C. Smith

Thomas Friedman Gets A Pie In The Face During Speech At Brown - Media on The Huffington... - 0 views

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  • Friedman ducked, and was left with only minor streams of the sugary green goo on his black pants and turtleneck.
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      Brian C. Smith on 23 Apr 08
       
      Quote of the Year thus far.
Ruth Howard

HP Invents a Central Nervous System for the Earth | Inhabitat - 4 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • HP has just unveiled an incredibly ambitious project to create a “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE) composed of billions of super sensitive, cheap, and tough sensors. The project involves distributing these sensors throughout the world and using them to gather data that could be used to detect everything from infrastructure collapse to environmental pollutants to climate change and impending earthquakes. From there, the “Internet of Things” and smarter cities are right around the corner.HP is currently developing its first sensor to be deployed, which is an accelerometer 1,000 times more sensitive than those used in the Wii or the iPhone – it’s capable of detecting motion and vibrations as subtle as a heartbeat. The company also has plans to use nanomaterials to create chemical and biological sensors that are 100 million times more sensitive than current models. Their overall goal is to use advances in sensitivity and nanotech to shrink the size of these devices so that they are small enough to clip onto a mobile telephone.Once HP has created an array of sensors, the next step is distributing them and making sense of all the data they generate. That’s no easy task, granted that a network of one million sensors running 24 hours a day would create 20 petabytes of data in just six months. HP is taking all that number crunching to task however, and will be harnessing its in-house networking expertise, consulting, and data storage technologies for the project.The creation of a global sensor system would be an incredible breakthrough – it could make our cities more efficient, save lives, and enable us to better understand, track, and combat climate change. As HP Labs senior researcher Peter Hartwell has stated, “If we’re going to save the planet, we’ve got to monitor it“.+ CeNSEVia Fast CompanyLead photo by Margie Wylie Comments RSS Comments RSS digg_url = 'http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/18/hp-invents-a-central-nervous-system-for-the-earth/'; digg_title = 'HP Invents a Central Nervous System for the Earth'; digg_skin = 'compact'; email this tweetmeme_url = "http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/18/hp-invents-a-central-nervous-system-for-the-earth/"; tweetmeme_style = "compact"; facebook this Related Posts
Tom Mussoline

How to use Google Plus in the classroom - 16 views

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  • Kelly Faulkner on 23 Jul 11
     
    some good ideas. am hoping google will offer a version of plus for education. currently must be 18.
Vicki Davis

Kindle DX: Sleeper Agent for Amazon's Future | Green Business | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • Bezos was back onstage to announce a new incarnation of the Kindle just three months after unveiling the previous one
  • The paragraph above is partially incorrect. PDFs can be directly dropped into the Kindle via a USB cable. Other documents—Word files, image files, etc.—need to go through the conversion.
  • This great chart from a college-bookstore association shows where all the money goes and also implies that 55.9 percent of textbook costs could be saved if they were delivered digitally, bypassing college bookstores.
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  • Students appear to be the only demographic that the DX is actually well-suited to serve.
  • Vicki Davis on 11 May 09
     
    New kindle DX - 3 months after the other - what is the difference: "the big differences are that the Kindle DX is 4 inches larger than the one you bought last month and comes installed with a PDF reader." $489 price tag Some of my students are reading on their itouch now.
Dave Truss

52 Land, Water, Fire and Sky Phenomena | WebEcoist | Green Living - 7 views

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  • Dave Truss on 20 Oct 09
     
    According to an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist and healer all matter is comprised of four elements: earth, water, fire and air and associated these four elements with gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. In more contemporary cosmologies these elements have been used to relate and contrast ideas of substance, feelings, energy and thought respectively.
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