Skip to main content

Home/ Innovation Institute: Sustainable China/ Group items tagged technology

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Jason Dillon

Invitation to a Dialogue: Globalizing Wisely - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • we sometimes forget that cultural differences represent profound psychological differences. The critical question for all nations is, “How can we engage globalization without losing our traditions?” For traditions are our links with the past. How do our traditions become integrated into some new worldview?At its core, globalization is not about communications technology; it’s about personal identity. It goes to the psychological foundations of a people. It is the process of realizing that wherever we come from, from now on, we are “one people” with one destiny.
    • Patrice Parks
       
      This will make a great introduction for my ninth grade students at the beginning of the year as we launch the initial foundational learning in English in preparation for the first PBL unit. Use it to spark discussion.
  • WILLIAM V. WISHARD Lake Ridge, Va., May 27, 2014 The writer is a former trends analyst and author of “Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning.”
  •  
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/a-global-community.html?ref=opinion This link shows reader letters in response to the original article... and the writer's reply to those letters.
Jason Dillon

Networked Student: connectivist pedagogy - 0 views

  •  
    A 5-minute overview of connectivist pedagogy with some tangible examples. The specific technology tools and products may vary, but this is a simple iterative process of guided inquiry, incorporating resources beyond the walls of a class/school.
Jason Dillon

New Tech Network | We support districts, teachers, administrators and students to creat... - 0 views

  •  
    http://www.newtechnetwork.org/services/learning-management-systems I'm thinking about how we might use technology to support the interdisciplinary connections in our work. New Tech Network describes their LMS that integrates with Google apps.
Jason Dillon

About OPP (Open Portfolio Project) - 0 views

  • We are encouraged by the recent announcement of MIT accepting maker portfolios as part of their college application process. Portfolios are often described as a more authentic means of assessment than the traditional classroom test.
  •  
    "We will develop recommendations for the use of portfolios through (1) a thorough investigation of the research literature on traditional and e-portfolio systems; (2) a systematic feature analysis of existing tools to identify design features that best promote learner documentation, reflection, and curation; and (3) a series of iterative design experiments to test potential prototypes."
Jason Dillon

The Castros in Their Labyrinth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Allowing Cubans to sign cellphone contracts helped swell the state coffers but gave citizens a tool for information and communication. Every little move toward flexibility has provided some economic relief to the administration and, simultaneously, a relative loss of control.
  • “Raúlist reforms.” The octogenarian leader appears to know that if he speeds up change, the entire sociopolitical model could dismantle before his eyes. While he keeps delivering the same message and proclaiming that changes are “for more socialism,” the reality makes it clear that Cuba is transitioning to a sort of capitalism exempt of labor rights and civic freedom.
  • A growing number of Cubans build their own receivers to enjoy television programming from Florida. Copies of those shows, popularly known as “the package,” are distributed on USB sticks or external hard drives by clandestine networks.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • The television screen has always been a very effective means for government indoctrination.
  • A few days ago, the newspaper Juventud Rebelde ran a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty holding a cellphone instead of a torch. The message was clear: Information and communication technology are the tools of the enemy.
  • Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban writer, has launched the island’s first independent digital newspaper, 14ymedio.
Jason Dillon

Sting: How I started writing songs again | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

  • Every morning as a child, I'd watch thousands of men walk down that hill to work in the shipyard. I'd watch those same men walking back home every night. It has to be said, the shipyard was not the most pleasant place to live next door to, or indeed work in. The shipyard was noisy, dangerous, highly toxic, with an appalling health and safety record. 2:34 Despite that, the men and women who worked on those ships were extraordinarily proud of the work they did, and justifiably so. Some of the largest vessels ever constructed on planet Earth were built right at the end of my street.
  • He said, "What the hell are you gonna do?" ♪ 11:23 ♪ I said, "Anything but this!" ♪ 11:26 ♪ These dead man's boots know their way down the hill ♪ 11:29 ♪ They can walk there themselves and they probably will ♪ 11:32 ♪ But they won't walk with me ‘cause I'm off the other way ♪ 11:35 ♪ I've had it up to here, I'm gonna have my say ♪ 11:37 ♪ When all you've got left is that cross on the wall ♪ 11:40 ♪ I want nothing from you, I want nothing at all ♪ 11:43 ♪ Not a pension, nor a pittance, when your whole life is through ♪ 11:46 ♪ Get this through your head, I'm nothing like you ♪ 11:49 ♪ I'm done with all the arguments, there'll be no more disputes ♪ 11:54 ♪ And you'll die before you see me in your dead man's boots ♪
  • So the procession is moving at a stately pace down my street, and as it approaches my house, I start to wave my flag vigorously, and there is the Queen Mother. I see her, and she seems to see me. She acknowledges me. She waves, and she smiles. And I wave my flag even more vigorously. We're having a moment, me and the Queen Mother. She's acknowledged me. And then she's gone. 13:50 Well, I wasn't cured of anything. It was the opposite, actually. I was infected. I was infected with an idea. I don't belong in this street. I don't want to live in that house. I don't want to end up in that shipyard. I want to be in that car.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • there's a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and science and technology, between community and economics. It's my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable.
  •  
    see the interactive transcript also
James Linzel

Tesla seals landmark deal to mass-produce EV batteries in the US - 0 views

  •  
    Elon Musk keeps looking more and more like Tony Stark
1 - 14 of 14
Showing 20 items per page