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Lisa Levinson

Job Titles Retailored to Fit - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interesting article on how job titles are becoming less important, although being creative in naming your job function comes at the cost of keyword searches.
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    How social media and LinkedIn has changed the way people describe what they do.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Students at Stanford Work on Apps that Alleviate Stress - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Digital Overload? article in Entrepreneurship/Technology, NYT, by Jessica Kraft, July 20, 2012. new apps to relieve digital stress by helping us learn how to maintain better breathing habits and achieve healthier life balance
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Digital Detox Test: Unplug Twitter and Facebook. Put Off Email and Smartphone. - NYTi... - 0 views

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    Great feature by Teddy Wayne, February 7, 2014, NYT, on unplugging Twitter, Facebook, put off email and smartphone.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Sebastian Thrun and Udacity: Distance learning is unsuccessful for most students. - 0 views

  • The problem, of course, is that those students represent the precise group MOOCs are meant to serve. “MOOCs were supposed to be the device that would bring higher education to the masses,” Jonathan Rees noted. “However, the masses at San Jose State don’t appear to be ready for the commodified, impersonal higher education that MOOCs offer.” Thrun’s cavalier disregard for the SJSU students reveals his true vision of the target audience for MOOCs: students from the posh suburbs, with 10 tablets apiece and no challenges whatsoever—that is, the exact people who already have access to expensive higher education. It is more than galling that Thrun blames students for the failure of a medium that was invented to serve them, instead of blaming the medium that, in the storied history of the “correspondence” course (“TV/VCR repair”!), has never worked. For him, MOOCs don’t fail to educate the less privileged because the massive online model is itself a poor tool. No, apparently students fail MOOCs because those students have the gall to be poor, so let’s give up on them and move on to the corporate world, where we don’t have to be accountable to the hoi polloi anymore, or even have to look at them, because gross.
  • SG_Debug && SG_Debug.pagedebug && window.console && console.log && console.log('[' + (new Date()-SG_Debug.initialTime)/1000 + ']' + ' Bottom of header.jsp'); SlateEducationGetting schooled.Nov. 19 2013 11:43 AM The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne 7.3k 1.2k 101 Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s “pivot” toward corporate training. By Rebecca Schuman &nbsp; Sebastian Thrun speaks during the Digital Life Design conference on Jan. 23, 2012, in Munich. Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images requirejs(["jquery"], function($) { if ($(window).width() < 640) { $(".slate_image figure").width("100%"); } }); Sebastian Thrun, godfather of the massive open online course, has quietly spread a plastic tarp on the floor, nudged his most famous educational invention into the center, and is about to pull the trigger. Thrun—former Stanford superprofessor, Silicon Valley demigod, and now CEO of online-course purveyor Udacity—just admitted to Fast Company’s openly smitten Max Chafkin that his company’s courses are often a “lousy product.” Rebecca Schuman Rebecca Schuman is an education columnist for Slate. Follow This is quite a “pivot” from the Sebastian Thrun, who less than two years ago crowed to Wired that the unstemmable tide of free online education would leave a mere 10 purveyors of higher learning in its wake, one of which would be Udacity. However, on the heels of the embarrassing failure of a loudly hyped partnership with San Jose State University, the “lousiness” of the product seems to have become apparent. The failures of massive online education come as no shock to those of us who actually educate students by being in the same room wit
  • nd why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
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    Slate article by Rebecca Schuman, November 19, on why MOOCs a la Udacity do not work except maybe for people who are already privileged, enjoy fast access to the Internet, have good study habits and time management skills, and time to craft their schedules to fit in MOOCs among other assets/strengths.
Lisa Levinson

Disruptions: Texting Your Feelings, Symbol by Symbol - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Article on use of Emoji and what they communicate: "Sure, it might sound a bit odd that a new, long-distance relationship could fizzle because a tiny icon was misused, yet these types of messaging miscommunications happen often (though perhaps not quite as comically). The emoji icons can be baffling to the American adults who, whether they realize it or not, are taking their social cues from Japanese teenagers."
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    Communication issues using emoji and not understanding the etiquette and expectations emoji use engender.
Lisa Levinson

Technology and the College Generation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    College students don't use email because it is too slow, you have to put in a subject, and you have to send it. They all text, which is faster and less labor intensive. They also don't use search engines. One professor reports saying to students (he is an academic adviser) "have you tried Google?). Usually, they hadn't.
Lisa Levinson

The Bullying Epidemic: How Speech-Language Pathologists are Positioned to Restore Balance - 0 views

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Lisa Levinson

Women Turn Tables on Online Harassers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Women using online dating services "out" men who are harassing them with explicit, ugly messages, especially on Tinder and OKCupid. They post the messages on either instagram, twitter, their dating site profile, or other places and not only stop or greatly reduce harassment, but attract men who want to get to know them better. A new problem for the modern age.
Lisa Levinson

When the Cyberbully Is You - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    from disruptions section by Nick Bilton. How conversations about cyberbullying have come to the public forum because more and more people are victims of it. Cybermobs on twitter are like feeding frenzies, with those participating not thinking or wanting to be mean, but losing all feeling of empathy for the victim.
Lisa Levinson

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Magazine article by Jon Ronson on the Justine Sacco twitter fiasco resulting in her firing. Ronson chronicles many other incidents of cyber twitter mobs turning on people, getting them fired, and making personal attacks. Casual tweeting with dire consequences.
Lisa Levinson

Page by Page, Men Are Stepping Into the 'Lean In' Circle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article on how the book, Lean In, is impacting men and minority groups as well as women. Male Lean In groups have sprung up to discuss men's roles in promoting and supporting women, and minority groups have started Lean In Circles to address discrimination they have encountered (Asian groups).
Lisa Levinson

Of Myself I Sing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Teddy Wayne delves into when self promotion on social media is appropriate, when it can backfire, and how to mix it up with other info and links so you are providing info people want to know. Good article on line between promoting yourself or product and being narcissistic.
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    Using other info as well as promoting our blogs would be a good combo for twitter and LinkedIn. Good dig at FB ads!
Lisa Levinson

No Time to Think - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Kate Murphy talks about how we are now a culture of always doing something, and we avoid any reflective time because we are so unpracticed at it that we dwell on the negative when we do have quiet time without distraction. People will go far to avoid introspection - in experiments they give themselves electric shocks rather than sit quietly alone without anything to do. Research, especially the new neural research, all show that allowing your mind to drift is healthy and productive. Google, for example, has courses for employees in mindfulness, meditation, and "Search Inside Yourself". The research also shows that not giving yourself time to reflect impairs your ability to empathize with others. "Feeling what you feel is an ability that atrophies if you don't use it."
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    Another example of why reflection is important to well being, creativity, satisfaction with life, and connections to others
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Kat Cole of Cinnabon, on Questioning Success More Than Failure - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interview with Kat Cole on leadership and becoming a leader, July 19, 2014. Like her emphasis on coachability and feedback and unrelenting curiosity to learn. Supports learning, leading, connecting online. Also like her other leadership insights and how she hires new people. Excerpt "What advice do you give your employees who are ambitious and want to move up? First, I talk about being incredibly coachable, because we all give each other feedback. If you want to move up, you've got to get as many inputs as possible to continue to develop. Second, take your development into your own hands and be curious about the entire company. If there's something you want to learn, go learn it. The structure here is like a start-up. "
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    article by Natasha Singer on sharing economy and gig economy, reliance on technology such as Uber, Lyft, Sidecar for connecting strangers with drivers of their own cars, Task Rabbit for online chores. Check app. Accept. Job. Repeat.
Lisa Levinson

Teaching Is Not a Business - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Op ed piece by David L. Kirp, a Berkley professor. The business models that are proliferating in educational thinking and assessment does not work, and the greatest determiner of success are the interpersonal relationships of students and teachers, students and students, and teachers and teachers. Adding more and new technology has not been successful because of this. Rewarding "good" schools with merit pay while closing and punishing those in areas of poverty because they are "failing" schools without instituting known programs that engender success is a crime in his view.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Path to Happy Employment, Contact by Contact on LinkedIn - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • It is, essentially, the networking breakfast moved into a virtual world, and available virtually to the entire world.
  • First, the basics: LinkedIn allows users to create a compelling text-and-multimedia narrative of their life and work.
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    Really good article on how to use LinkedIn well, December 4, 2013, in NYT, Personal Tech column
Lisa Levinson

Saying No to College - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    DIY for after high school. Dropping out of college or not going at all is viewed as an alternative track for those who don't want to accrue massive debt and want to create the next "app" or online company.
Lisa Levinson

Company Envisions 'Vaults' for Personal Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Creating a vault to store your personal online data to preserve and manage your digital identity.
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