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Blair Peterson

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

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

  • “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.”
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      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.
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    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

  • “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.
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    "…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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    Looks like a must read for our budding graphic designers.
Blair Peterson

Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 0 views

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    Response to the NYTimes article on tech in courses.
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How to Get a Job - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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

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    Where is this technology heading and how quickly will it change our lives? How did Google become a leader in building driverless cars? 
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The Visual Workplace, and How to Build It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article on how an adult has compensated for being dyslexic. Also an example of design thinking.
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Revolution Hits the Universities - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Thomas Friedman's op-Ed on the MOOC trend in higher ed
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Literary History, Seen Through Big Data's Lens - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • His mathematical models are tailored to identify word patterns and thematic elements in written text. The number and strength of links among novels determine influence, much the way Google ranks Web sites.
  • Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.
  • “What is critical and distinctive to human evolution is ideas, and how they evolve,” says Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard.
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  • By contrast, “1973” declined to half its peak by 1983, only 10 years later. “We are forgetting our past faster with each passing year,” the authors wrote.
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      New terms Political methodology, cliometrics, stylometry, culturonmics
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Literary History, Seen Through Big Data's Lens - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.
  • Such biological metaphors seem apt, because much of the research is a quantitative examination of words. Just as genes are the fundamental building blocks of biology, words are the raw material of ideas.
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    Story of a project to use data analysis in English literature.
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