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Lisa Levinson

What are the 21st-century skills every student needs? | World Economic Forum - 0 views

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    Great article on the top 16 foundational literacy skills, competencies, and personal characteristics students need for 21st century skills. Good graphics and video. Also has a section on how to teach these skills. The skills apply to everyone, not just students.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Queen Rania: The Syrian refugees I met are experiencing something worse than death - Th... - 0 views

  • Because no one chooses to be a refugee. Refugees are refugees because the alternative used to be death. Now, there’s a worse option: a living death.
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    Queen Rania of Jordan writes a blistering and heartfelt analysis of the many "deaths" that refugees experience deciding whether to leave their homes, trying to leave their country, then arriving in new "haven" countries that don't want them and threaten to send them back to their home country.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Strategies for Retaining Female Engineers - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

  • “Creating workplaces that have a lot of flexibility, that allow for people to work in a way that fits best with them, boosts creativity and job satisfaction,” Metcalf says, and these are the settings where women stay and thrive.
  • No matter what type of organization women work for, large or small, public or private, their relationships with their immediate bosses are critical to whether they feel engaged and content. The ideal supervisor is committed to his or her subordinates’ advancement and development, assigns stretch projects, and provides necessary support and feedback to help them be successful, Bilimoria says. And workplaces that employ women in higher levels are more apt to retain women at the lower levels. “There need to be multilevel champions [of women] from the top as well as from the bottom and the middle, because women are more sensitive to dealing with gender bias,” she says. Workplace initiatives that offer leadership development, mentoring, and networking for women reap the benefits by retaining women, Bilimoria’s research shows.
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    good lock at women with sTEM credentials and why they haven't stayed in field
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Family-Friendly Policy That's Friendliest to Male Professors - The New York Times - 0 views

  • They have advanced the careers of male economists, often at women’s expense
  • The central problem is that employment policies that are gender-neutral on paper may not be gender-neutral in effect.
  • Succeed within seven years and you have a job for life. Fall short, and you’re fired.
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  • The policies led to a 19 percentage-point rise in the probability that a male economist would earn tenure at his first job. In contrast, women’s chances of gaining tenure fell by 22 percentage points. Before the arrival of tenure extension, a little less than 30 percent of both women and men at these institutions gained tenure at their first jobs. The decline for women is therefore very large.
  • They found that men who took parental leave used the extra year to publish their research, amassing impressive publication records. But there was no parallel rise in the output of female economists.
  • ng birth is not a gender-neutral event,” recalling that during her pregnancy, “I threw up every day.” She argued, “Policies that are neutral in the eyes of a lawyer are not neutral in fact.”
  • Better policies could help economics — not to mention the sciences and other fields — look like less of a boys’ club.
  • Three female economists have shown that the tools of economics — which enable a careful assessment of incentives and constraints informed by real-world data — suggest that a more nuanced policy would lead to better outcomes. It leaves me wondering how many other policy mistakes we could avoid, if only we had more female economists.
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    informed assessment/report by Justin Wolfers, NYTimes, on how extending parental leave policies cause unintended impacts
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Shatter Your Inner Glass Ceiling | LinkedIn - 0 views

  • If you take away only one thing from this article, let it be this:  the oppressive messages (spoken and unspoken) that you receive from others are based on their own faulty beliefs, perceptions and projections about women.  You have adopted those as your own incorrect beliefs and they have become part of your self-identity.  Internalized oppression is habitual negative thinking and beliefs that you use against yourself. 
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    article by Shelly Darnutzer on how to overcome internal oppression that often started with external oppression, April 2016
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down - The New York Times - 0 views

  • When you create a culture where women are casually torn apart in conversation, how can you ever stomach promoting them, or working for them?
  • It’s hard to violate social norms; it’s even harder when doing so means jeopardizing millions of dollars in future earnings. For an intern, a connection with a managing director can mean a foothold in one of the most lucrative career paths in the world.
  • A woman has never been the chief executive of a major investment bank. Only about 2 percent of hedge fund managers are women. During my years on Wall Street I never saw a woman run a trading or sales desk, which is the first step toward executive management.
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  • If you think that this violence has nothing to do with bro talk, you’re wrong. When we dehumanize people in conversation, we give permission for them to be degraded in other ways as well. And even if we don’t participate, our silence condones this language. I deeply regret remaining quiet while women were being disparaged during my eight years as a trader.
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    good article by Sam Polk, July 2016, on how sexist talk by men about women catapults even worse behavior by men
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

An Underutilized Tool for Building Tomorrow's Workforce - 0 views

  • A strong workforce is vital to our nation's economic prosperity, and it has become more critical than ever that our workforce acquire advanced skills and postsecondary credentials. By 2020, 65 percent of jobs will require a college degree or postsecondary credential.
  • prior learning assessment (PLA), which enables non-traditional learners to complete training and degree programs sooner by awarding them college credit based on the college-level knowledge, skills and abilities they've gained outside of the classroom.
  • Many state policy leaders have begun to recognize the importance and potential of PLA and have been developing statewide strategies.
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    article by Becky Klein-Collins for Governing, July 2016
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Engaging Remote Employees | Blog - 0 views

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    Nice blog by Danielle Holly, Common Impact, on engaging remote employees and skilled volunteers with good sources cited in the article, May 17, 2016. If everyone is remote, everyone is equal, but skilled management is still needed.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why So Few Baby Boomers Are Volunteering - Forbes - 0 views

  • According to the Volunteering in the United States survey, “providing professional or management assistance, including serving on a board or committee” is the second most popular form of volunteering for Americans over 55, after “collecting, preparing, distributing or serving food.”
  • ey’re increasingly targeting boomers with what’s known as “skills-based volunteering” opportunities whose jobs are valued at $40 to $500 an hour, far more than traditional volunteering’s $18 to $20 an hour, according to a blog post by Emily Ferstie of United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
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    drop in boomer age group for volunteering, they are wanting to use their career skills. BEST in Hollywood, FL is working to create a focused engagement: 50 boomer volunteers to train 500 unemployed and underemployed people and run a job fair within 18 months
Lisa Levinson

Yammer Features |Team Collaboration Tools - 1 views

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    Yammer site with features, mobile use, admin, and activation info. Trial is free, then you have to pay to use along with paying for office integration.
Lisa Levinson

15 Best Online Forum Platforms / Software (Free and Paid) - Quertime - 0 views

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    Can't find the date on this but Quertime lists 15 of the most widely used web forum platforms that we might want to explore. It does list BuddyPress as well. phpBB looks interesting, as does zetaboards, and maybe PunBB.
Lisa Levinson

Boardhost: FAQ - 0 views

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    Free forum and message board platform that allows you to customize the look so it matches your website. They have an example of how they have integrated a forum into a website. Downside to free service are ads on the forum or message board page, but paid service eliminates that.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

15 Effective Twitter Tools You Haven't Heard About... Yet - 0 views

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    excellent list of twitter tools for making more effective use of twitter
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • Throughout our research, we find that newly created online communities can change people’s behaviors by addressing the following psychological needs:
  • The Need to Trust.
  • The Need to Fit In.
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  • The Need for Self-Worth.
  • The Need to Be Rewarded for Good Behavior
  • The Need to Feel Empowered.
  • Belonging to a network of people who are changing their own behaviors, support our needs, and are confident in our changing our behavior empowers us and gives us the ability to change our behavior.
  • understanding psychological needs is the core of behavior change and engagement across all domains.
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    blog post by Sean Young, Ph.D., on fostering change in behavior through online comunities, September 28, 2013
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Will Your Next Boss Be A Freelancer? - Forbes - 0 views

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    column by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, June 2016 on how workforce is becoming more freelance based
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Migrating from One Community Platform to Another? No Sweat - 0 views

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    Phased process for moving communities from one platform to another by James Davidson, June 30, 2016, CMS Wire--start with user profiles, then group structures/pages, then content
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Simple Way Out of Your Precarious Freelance Income Problem - Copyblogger - - 0 views

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    good ideas for setting up retainer projects as regular source of income
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Remote? That's No Way to Describe This Work - The New York Times - 0 views

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    article on what to call remote workers--work in place
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Forget Keywords -- Here's What Will Make Your Resume Stand Out - Forbes - 0 views

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    ATS and keywords by Liz Ryan
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Are You Taking A Summer Break from Your Tech? | Beth's Blog - 0 views

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    ways to reduce control digital tech use especially mobile phones
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