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Blair Peterson

The Palin E-Mails - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NYTimes.com Graded21c StudentCenteredLearning

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  • Blair Peterson on 11 Jun 11
     
    This is a really interesting concept because the NYTimes has the e-mails embedded in the page so that you can scroll through them. They also have a text box for readers to enter comments and they are asking for "something of interest" and a summary. These comments may be used in an article. This page now becomes more interactive. Definitely a concept that could be used in education.
Blair Peterson

Instagram Deal Is Billion-Dollar Move Toward Cellphone From PC - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “For decades, the center of computing has been the desktop, and software was modeled after the experience of using a typewriter,” said Georg Petschnigg, a former Microsoft employee who is one of the creators of Paper, a new sketchbook app for the iPad.
  • “People are living in the moment and they want to share in the moment,” Professor Sundar said. “Mobile gives you that immediacy and convenience.”
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 11 Apr 12
       
      I have to admit that I'm a bit out of synch with Instagram not being on my computer. It has seemed a bit odd to me.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Apr 12
     
    Talking about a change in strategy with tech startups. Focus on the mobile devices. 
Blair Peterson

Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02cheat.html

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  • “Our notion of authorship and originality was born, it flourished, and it may be waning,” Ms. Blum said.
  • Instead of offering an abject apology, Ms. Hegemann insisted, “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” A few critics rose to her defense, and the book remained a finalist for a fiction prize (but did not win).
  • “If you’re taught how to closely read sources and synthesize them into your own original argument in middle and high school, you’re not going to be tempted to plagiarize in college, and you certainly won’t do so unknowingly,” she said.
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  • The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
  • Milly Pannunzio on 03 Mar 12
     
    "…students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing" said Wilensky. HS students must understand that their learning experiences in schools, will develop the skills they will need in Higher Education. 9-12 students should be exposed to articles like this, stating real cases of plagiarism in Colleges, and discuss them, thinking in their future in University and in how prepared they are to face it. Thanks for sharing!
Blair Peterson

'Just My Type - A Book About Fonts' by Simon Garfield - Review - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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StudentCenteredLearning fonts NYTimes.com

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  • Blair Peterson on 22 Aug 11
     
    Looks like a must read for our budding graphic designers.
Blair Peterson

The Yin and the Yang of Corporate Innovation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The Google model relies on rapid experimentation and data. The company constantly refines its search, advertising marketplace, e-mail and other services, depending on how people use its online offerings. It takes a bottom-up approach: customers are participants, essentially becoming partners in product design.
  • The Apple model is more edited, intuitive and top-down.
  • Steve Jobs had a standard answer: none. “It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want,” he would add.
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  • Yet while networked communications and marketplace experiments add useful information, breakthrough ideas still come from individuals, not committees.
  • There is nothing democratic about innovation,” says Paul Saffo, a veteran technology forecaster in Silicon Valley. “It is always an elite activity, whether by a recognized or unrecognized elite.”
  • Apple’s physical world is far different from Google’s realm of Internet software, where writing a few lines of new code can change a product instantly.
  • Apple product designs may not be determined by traditional market research, focus groups or online experiments. But its top leaders, recruited by Mr. Jobs, are tireless seekers in an information-gathering network on subjects ranging from microchip technology to popular culture. “It’s a lot of data crunched in a nonlinear way in the right brain,”
Blair Peterson

Figment.com Aims for Young Readers and Writers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 10 Dec 10
     
    NY Times article on Figment. Figment is an experiment in online literature. Some pieces are from cell phone novels.
Blair Peterson

Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...13social.html

21stcentury Graded21c StudentCenteredLearning Backchannel

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  • “Everybody is heard in our class,” said Leah Postman, 17.
  • Janae Smith, also 17, said, “It’s made me see my peers as more intelligent, seeing their thought process and begin to understand them on a deeper level.”
  • Mrs. Olson asked her students to connect “the argument” of the poem they read and the video with their own rally. As the discussion swirled in class, one student typed on the backchannel: “We tend to have the attitude that someone else will do it. But what happens when everyone thinks the same as you?”
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  • “I agree with Katie!” someone added. “This class has given us a voice!”
  • “I am in awe at how independent they’ve become using that as a means of comprehension,”
Blair Peterson

Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout - NYTimes... - 1 views

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  • When he has to focus, he relies on Freedom, a productivity application that blocks the Internet for up to eight hours.
  • Alternatively, he configures his computer so that when he tries to point his browser to, say, Google+, the computer takes him to a page on the desktop instead.
Blair Peterson

How to Get a Job - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html

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  • ony Wagner that the world doesn’t care anymore what you know; all it cares “is what you can do with what you know.”
  • And they increasingly don’t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yale. They just want to know one thing: Can you add value?
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Can this really be true? How long will it take for this to become the prevailing thought?
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  • A degree document is no longer a proxy for the competency employers need.” Too many of the “skills you need in the workplace today are not being taught by colleges.”
  • Added Sharef: “What surprises me most about people’s skills is how poor their writing and grammar are, even for college graduates.
  • ireArt sees many talented people who are just “confused about what jobs they are qualified for, what jobs are out there and where they fit in.”
  • We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Excel, really? Couldn't they have come up with a better example than this?
  • he most successful job candidates, she added, are “inventors and solution-finders,” who are relentlessly “entrepreneurial” because they understand that many employers today don’t care about your résumé, degree or how you got your knowledge, but only what you can do and what you can continuously reinvent yourself to do.
Blair Peterson

Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 31 May 13
     
    Where is this technology heading and how quickly will it change our lives? How did Google become a leader in building driverless cars? 
Blair Peterson

The Visual Workplace, and How to Build It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...place-and-how-to-build-it.html

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  • Blair Peterson on 30 Dec 12
     
    Article on how an adult has compensated for being dyslexic. Also an example of design thinking.
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