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Lisa Levinson

IS UNIT WEB SITE - IPTS - JRC - EC - 0 views

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    Web site for Digital Competence: European-wide validation for all levels of learning "Objective:  Identify the key components of Digital Competence (DC) in terms of the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to be digitally competent; Develop a DC framework/guidelines that can be validated at European level, taking into account relevant frameworks currently available; Propose a roadmap for the possible use and revision of a DC framework for all levels of learners. Outcomes: (1) a consolidated draft proposal for a DC framework, applicable at all levels of education, including non-formal settings (2) roadmap on how to realise and revise the DC framework. Rationale: With the 2006 European Recommendation on Key Competences (Official Journal L 394 of 30.12.2006), Digital Competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union. Digital Competence can be broadly defined as the confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society. DC is a transversal key competence which, as such, enables acquiring other key competences (e.g. language, maths, learning to learn, creativity). It is amongst the so-called 21st Century skills which should be acquired by all citizens, to ensure their active socio-economic participation in society and the economy. Major questions: What are the key components of DC and what kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes people should have to be digitally competent, today and in the future? How can and/or should the development of this competence be validated at European level within a lifelong learning context, thus encompassing formal education, non-formal and informal learning and the world of work? "
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

8 Technologies Boomers Need to Learn - Next Avenue - 0 views

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    interesting article by Clair Jones on 8 technologies that Boomers need to succeed at work, December 7, 2014. I am not sold on all of them; maybe we should write our own list? 1. IFTTT- does simultaneous updating of all accounts; so? 2. Sunrise calendar--free app that combines google calendar with linkedin, Facebook, and other profile calendars to provide a comprehensive view of your day? 3. Google+ Hangtous and Doodle--yes, these are good. 4. Prezi (customizable templates) and Keepvid (for downloading videos beforehand and showing as desired)--yes, okay 5. Easel.ly--infographic templates--yes, okay 6. Evernote--yes to project file develoment and organization 7. LastPass--not as keen as I once was with this app 8. Pocket--saving media for later reading--Diigo goes same thing
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Twittimer * Schedule your tweets | Auto tweet - 0 views

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    Works to schedule message release in advance with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Provides some analysis. Can use from any device. Integrates with Bitly account when shortening of links is required and tracking of performance is desired. Free.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Things Really Successful Learners Always Do | Inc.com - 0 views

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    Nice explication of five things successful learners do by Kevin Daum, Inc. 1. Imagine the outcome (have purpose!) 2. Think of text as a starting point (create additional opportunities for experiental learning--talk it through with others, watch it being done, do it) 3. Learn in your language(visual, auditory, tactile) 4. Make failure fun (test and push the boundaries) 5. Make accountability exhilarating (impact of tests, display your new skills or knowledge)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Is Wirearchy ? » Wirearchy - 0 views

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    Great blog post by Jon Husband , February 16, 2013, linked to by Harold Jarche in his blog. Excerpt: "What Wirearchy Means For You As a Leader" Become deeply aware of and truly mindful about the scope and reach of interconnected markets and flows of information. Understand how and why people are connecting, talking, sharing information. Be prepared to listen deeply, be responsible, be accountable and be transparent. As a Manager Become knowledgeable about online work systems and how the need for collaboration is changing the nature of work, generally - and the nature of managerial work specifically. Learning how to be an effective listener and coach is all-important."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Career Coach: Collaboration among competitors can be useful - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • BMW and Toyota have collaborated in the area of sharing costs and knowledge for electric car battery research, despite the fact that both compete in the luxury car segment. In fact, they have a history of collaborating with each other.
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a collaborative research consortium comprised of investigators around the world in order to speed up HIV vaccine development.
  • Be clear about what you are collaborating on. Set boundaries for collaboration at the beginning.Have a limited and well-defined purpose for the collaboration.Be clear about use and ownership of existing and jointly-created intellectual property.Depending on the situation, you may need to involve legal counsel. Collaborating with other firms, even competitors, may be what is needed to help both parties advance and improve. Be open to the possibilities, yet clear about the boundaries.
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  • The conference was organized around sharing best practices with universities around the world — that is, sharing best practices with our competitors. It’s amazing to hear specifics on what schools are doing to help executive MBA students through career services, tailored content or leadership skills training, among other things. What’s even more remarkable is that people genuinely share details about their programs in an effort to help other schools improve their programs.
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    article by Joyce E. A. Russell, 10/28/2012, Capital Business, Wash Post on competitors collaborating.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

You Need a Community, Not a Network - Brook Manville - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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    Really good blog post by Brook Manville, 9/5/14, HBR on how the "thin we" becomes the "thick we" excerpt: To borrow language from the philosopher Avishai Margalit, the web is a "thin we" type of network. Participants tend to belong for individualistic reasons. They have little in common with other members, and they're reluctant to do much for the network. A big goal requires a "thick we" network - a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. Members of a community - as opposed to a simple network - expect relationships within the group to continue, and they even hold one another accountable for effort and performance. When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.
Lisa Levinson

Job Boards: Still Sucking Wind - 1 views

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    Nick Corcodilos, a job coach and contributing writer challenges the stats that say job boards are robust sources of hire. He parses the stats available and comes to the conclusion job boards account for less than 10% of all hires.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Giving it away - The Art of Delegation - 0 views

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    Paul Lemberg writes about delegating--five components--give the job to someone who can get it done; communicate precise conditions of satisfaction; work out a plan; set up a structure for accountability; and get buy-in. Believe these components are even more important for remote workers and volunteers.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Shut Up and Sit Down - The New Yorker - 0 views

  • People who fetishize leadership sometimes find themselves longing for crisis.
  • Our faith in the value of leadership is durable—it survives, again and again, our disappointment with actual leaders.
  • f you’re flexible in how you translate the word “leadership,” you’ll find that people have been thinking about it for a very long time.
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  • Rost found that writers on leadership had defined it in more than two hundred ways. Often, they glided between incompatible definitions within the same book: they argued that leaders should be simultaneously decisive and flexible, or visionary and open-minded. The closest they came to a consensus definition of leadership was the idea that it was “good management.” In practice, Rost wrote, “leadership is a word that has come to mean all things to all people.”
  • “The End of Leadership,” from 2012, Barbara Kellerman, a founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, wrote that “we don’t have much better an idea of how to grow good leaders, or of how to stop or at least slow bad leaders, than we did a hundred or even a thousand years ago.” She points out that, historically, the “trajectory” of leadership has been “about the devolution of power,” from the king to the voters, say, or the boss to the shareholders. In recent years, technological and economic changes like social media and globalization have made leaders less powerful.
  • Max Weber distinguished between the “charismatic” leadership of traditional societies and the “bureaucratic” leadership on offer in the industrialized world.
  • Khurana found that many companies passed over good internal candidates for C.E.O. in favor of “messiah” figures with exceptional charisma.
  • Charismatic C.E.O.s are often famous, and they make good copy;
  • y the mid-twentieth century
  • “process-based” approach. T
  • if you read a detailed, process-oriented account of Jobs’s career (“Becoming Steve Jobs,” by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, is particularly good), it’s clear that Jobs was a master of the leadership process. Time and time again, he gathered intelligence about the future of technology; surveyed the competition and refined his taste; set goals and assembled teams; tracked projects, intervening into even apparently trivial decisions; and followed through, considering the minute details of marketing and retail. Although Jobs had considerable charisma, his real edge was his thoughtful involvement in every step of an unusually expansive leadership process.
  • some organizations the candidate pool is heavily filtered: in the military, for example, everyone who aspires to command must jump through the same set of hoops. In Congress, though, you can vault in as a businessperson, or a veteran, or the scion of a political family.
  • whether times are bad enough to justify gambling on a dark-horse candidate.
  • Leadership BS
  • five virtues that are almost universally praised by popular leadership writers—modesty, authenticity, truthfulness, trustworthiness,
  • and selflessness—and argues that most real-world leaders ignore these virtues. (If anything, they tend to be narcissistic, back-stabbing, self-promoting shape-shifters.) To Pfeffer, the leadership industry is Orwellian.
  • Reading Samet’s anthology, one sees how starkly perspectival leadership is. From the inside, it often feels like a poorly improvised performance; leading is like starring in a lip-synched music video. The trick is to make it look convincing from the outside. And so the anthology takes pains to show how leaders react to the ambiguities of their roles. In one excerpt, from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Samet finds him marching toward an enemy camp. Grant, a newly minted colonel who has never commanded in combat, is terrified: “My heart kept getting higher and higher, until it felt to me as though it was in my throat.” When the camp comes into view, however, it’s deserted—the other commander, Grant surmises, “had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.” Leaders, he realizes, are imagined to be fearless but aren’t; ideally, one might hide one’s fear while finding in it clues about what the enemy will do.
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    article by Joshua Rothman on leadership and how our views of leadership have changed through the centuries and how leadership virtues don't always agree with the actions taken by "leaders" whom we admire. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Are the Differences Between Project Based and Regular Employees? | Chron.com - 0 views

  • specific project often work for a specific number of weeks or months
  • They may or may not work at your location, use your equipment, or work full time on your project
  • an independent contractor should not be given set hours, told exactly how to perform his job, or be told he can only work for you.
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  • A project-based worker usually signs a contract to work on one aspect of your business. For example, you may hire a financial person to re-do your accounting systems, a graphic artist to update your marketing materials, or a human resources professional to develop an employee benefits package
  • With a project-based contractor, you pay only the agreed-upon fee you negotiated.
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    helps define project-based employees, Sam Ashe-Edmunds
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Capacity Building 9.0: Fund people to do stuff, get out of their way / Nonprofit With B... - 0 views

  • First, when people talk about capacity building, it ironically seems to be about larger organizations that have some of what one of my colleagues calls “Prerequisite Capacity,” t
  • Second, I’m glad the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in capacity building is starting to be recognized and talked about. However, there is still a long way to go.
  • Third, I am astounded by our sector’s ability to overthink and overcomplicate things while ignoring the obvious.
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  • So many capacity building efforts fail because we do not invest enough in people to carry out these efforts
  • And any effort to build the capacity of communities of color that does not take staffing into account will fail completely. Many of these orgs do amazing work but don’t have a single full-time staff, so funding anything without strategically funding staffing first will be ineffective.  
  • Supporting the right people so they are consistently there doing stuff, and then removing barriers that are preventing them from doing stuff and making them want to run screaming from the sector. THEN fund toolkits and workshops and peer learning circles and talk about ecosystems and partnerships, etc. With that in mind, here are 9 recommendations from Capacity Building 9.0:
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    blog by nonprofitwithballs on funding people to do the work in nonprofits not projects, consultants, workshops, and redirecting capacity builders back to basics
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Beyond X PRIZE: The 10 Best Crowdsourcing Tools and Technologies - 2 views

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    The Blog of Tim Ferriss with guest post by Peter Diamandis about crowdsourcing problems and going to capital sources for funding. Reviews the changes in communication and cooperation and what is now possible with ICTs.
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    I was looking for a tool that allowed the "crowd" to create a database, which I think is ultimately what we would want. None of the ten listed seemed to fit that description. Did either of you see one that we may want to consider, or do we try to find something else? Does one of these seem like a good fit for us in other ways?
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    I haven't determined that any of these is the preferred channel for doing the W.W. database, Lyn. But the idea of incentivizing the creation and maintenance of a crowdsourced 'database' (for lack of a better term) is offered by these groups. A wiki that is set up for a Learning W.W. could be the beginning app until we find someone to do it or a tool to do it better. Even using Diigo in a paid account could work to gather tagged contributions with better organization to follow when we enlist someone to help us.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Making Dumb Groups Smarter - HBR - 0 views

  • The key is information aggregation: Different people take note of different “parts,” and if those parts are properly aggregated, they will lead the group to know more (and better) than any individual.
  • informational signals.
  • reputational pressures, which lead people to silence themselves or change their views in order to avoid some penalty—often, merely the disapproval of others.
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  • When they make poor or self-destructive decisions, one or more of these problems are usually to blame: Groups do not merely fail to correct the errors of their members; they amplify them. They fall victim to cascade effects, as group members follow the statements and actions of those who spoke or acted first. They become polarized, taking up positions more extreme than those they held before deliberations. They focus on what everybody knows already—and thus don’t take into account critical information that only one or a few people have.
  • Silence the leader.
  • “Prime” critical thinking.
  • Reward group success.
  • Assign roles.
  • Appoint a devil’s advocate.
  • Establish contrarian teams.
  • The Delphi method.
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    interesting article by Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie, November 4, 2014 on how to help groups make better decisions. Eight suggestions are made: 1. Silence the leader 2. Prime critical thinking 3. Reward group success 5. Assign roles 6. Appoint a devil's advocate 7. Establish contrarian teams 8. Delphi Method
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter | Beth... - 0 views

  • Twitter has flipped our relationship with media. Instead of us pitching journalists, many have come to rely on our staff as sources and connect with them through Twitter.  Many tweets lead to press calls.”
  • With almost 200 staff members engaging authentically on Twitter or curating news and information on their topics from different sources,  it forms the backbone of a robust content curation strategy.  Says Murphy, he and his colleague, typically curate the best 30-50 Tweets from the 1,000s by staff for the organization’s account.  
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    How a nonprofit used the personal Twitter "brands" of its employees to expand its reach with news media and other key audiences.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Is Your Professional Development a Waste of Time? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 0 views

  • No time for real dialogue. No time to ask questions
  • . "Oh we do this already," is a common response to PD. Do they do it...or do they think they do it? The report states that, "non-improvers are almost twice as likely to self-assess their own performance as stronger than their formal ratings."
  • Reflection is important, but it needs to be done with evidence.
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  • But it still didn't mean the PD they wanted to attend actually worked.
  • participants, regardless of the type of school system, show up without much background knowledge on why they are there.
  • they need to make sure that they have a school climate that is conducive to learning and not one that focuses on accountability and compliance.
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    interesting blog post, lots of food for thought about PD for compliance reasons and how to support growth long-term, Peter DeWitt, August 18, 2015
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Teaching algorithms not to discriminate | Tampa Bay Times - 0 views

  • Algorithms have become one of the most powerful arbiters in our lives. They make decisions about the news we read, the jobs we get, the people we meet, the schools we attend and the ads we see. Yet there is growing evidence that algorithms and other types of software can discriminate.
  • The people who write them incorporate their biases, and algorithms often learn from human behavior, so they reflect the biases we hold.
  • Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning workshop, which considers the role that machines play in consequential decisions in areas like employment, health care and policing.
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  • The tech world is notoriously resistant to regulation, but do you believe it might be necessary to ensure fairness in algorithms? Yes, just as regulation currently plays a role in certain contexts, such as advertising jobs and extending credit.
  • Should computer science education include lessons on how to be aware of these issues and the various approaches to addressing them? Absolutely!
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    article by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, printed in Tampa Bay Times on 8.14.15
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Living by the Numbers: The Database - SPIEGEL ONLINE - 0 views

  • The self-confident founders of Kreditech lend money through the Internet: short-term mini-loans of up to €500, with the average customer receiving €109. Instead of requiring credit information from their customers, they determine the probability of default on their own, using a social scoring method that consists of high-speed data analysis. "Ideally, the money should be in customers' accounts within 15 minutes of approval.
  • Kreditech also requires access to Facebook profiles, so that it can verify whether a user's photo and location match information on other social networking sites, like Xing and LinkedIn -- and whether his or her friends include many with similar education levels or many colleagues working in the same company.
  • All of this increases the likelihood that Kreditech is dealing with a real person.
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  • Their real goal is to develop an international, self-updating creditworthiness database for other companies, such as online retailers.
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    #6 in a series on Big Data in Spiegel Online
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Rethinking Assessment to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century Workforce - Vander Ark on... - 0 views

  • exponentially increases the power of assessment by increasing assessments, giving students a firsthand account of what they understand, and giving instructors the opportunity to intervene before a student falls behind. Assessment should mirror good instruction, happen continuously as part of instruction, and provide educators with information about students' level of understanding.
  • By reaching students at the exact moment they are trying to understand and requiring full comprehension before they move on, we can help prevent students from falling through the cracks later on in their education.
  • To accelerate their completion of remedial courses and stay on track to complete a certificate or degree program, students should take advantage of personalized learning technology that provides assistance outside of classroom time, such as online self-paced learning and assessment tools. These resources help students test their knowledge to determine areas of strength and struggle. Then, students can work at their own pace to master difficult concepts, and monitor their progress along the way.
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  • Generation Do-It-Yourself students are exploring new learning opportunities that's changing the roles of educator. Teachers will undoubtedly benefit from investing time and energy into becoming well versed in effective educational technology tools that create learning experiences that are personalized, and continuously adaptive. Understanding how students are actually performing and offering data-driven guidance will help learners better absorb course material and understand challenging concepts. Tools that provide teachers with actionable data enable educators to monitor each student's progress in a course, evaluate the achievement of learning outcomes, and intervene when needed
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    Don Kilburn/Tom Vander Ark blog post on how formative assessment made possible by technology is helping GenerationDo-It-Yourself students (and teachers?) remediate while still in high school. Pearson is behind this article (remember Barb McDonald's mention of this in a CPSquare discussion).
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

AARP Realpad, Ipad Mini and More, Which Tablet Is Best for You? - AARP - 0 views

  • The Wi-Fi-only tablet also arrives equipped with more than a dozen tutorial videos that walk users through tasks such as connecting to Wi-Fi, using email, setting up accounts at social networks and using video chat services like Skype for virtual visits with far-flung relatives and grandkids. In addition, RealPad owners get access to free 24/7 customer service via an 800 number that's accessible with the touch of an icon at the bottom of the screen. Remote help is also available.
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    AARP offers tech ed for real newbies who buy the AARP Realpad.
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