She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone.
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic - 0 views
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A challenge for certain, to parents, teens/students, and the community on the whole.
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Today’s teens are also less likely to date.
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Independence isn’t free—you need some money in your pocket to pay for gas, or for that bottle of schnapps.
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But iGen teens aren’t working (or managing their own money) as much.
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Across a range of behaviors—drinking, dating, spending time unsupervised— 18-year-olds now act more like 15-year-olds used to, and 15-year-olds more like 13-year-olds. Childhood now stretches well into high school.
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n an information economy that rewards higher education more than early work history, parents may be inclined to encourage their kids to stay home and study rather than to get a part-time job. Teens, in turn, seem to be content with this homebody arrangement—not because they’re so studious, but because their social life is lived on their phone. They don’t need to leave home to spend time with their friends.
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"may be inclined" - the author puts a lot on this statement as a possible source for this challenge we face. Parents rely no data trends get get their kids to stay home and study. I am sorry, the point may be true, yet I find it questionable parenting.
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this means iGen teens have more leisure time than Gen X teens did, not less.
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It’s not only a matter of fewer kids partying; fewer kids are spending time simply hanging out.
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Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy.
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Of course, these analyses don’t unequivocally prove that screen time causes unhappiness; it’s possible that unhappy teens spend more time online. But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness.
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This doesn’t always mean that, on an individual level, kids who spend more time online are lonelier than kids who spend less time online
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The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.
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One piece of data that indirectly but stunningly captures kids’ growing isolation, for good and for bad: Since 2007, the homicide rate among teens has declined, but the suicide rate has increased. As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another, and more likely to kill themselves.
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This trend has been especially steep among girls. Forty-eight percent more girls said they often felt left out in 2015 than in 2010, compared with 27 percent more boys
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Does this fit the "Modern Learning" we are after? I appreciate the article and it provides a resource for discussion with kids, but I think it's more of a digital literacy item. I know, DL is a part of modern learning, but I'd like to see this space grow beyond just tech-focused items and push thinking about learning and teaching. On second thought... I have an alert for this group so I receive it in my email. Who's reading Diigo anymore anyway?
The New A.P.: Coding Lite - The New York Times - 0 views
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all-important concept in computer science — abstraction — in terms of milkshakes
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The idea of abstraction,” he said, “is to hide the details.” It requires recognizing patterns and distilling complexity into a precise, clear summary
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In particular, “computational thinking” is captivating educators, from kindergarten teachers to college professors, offering a new language and orientation to tackle problems in other areas of life.
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a computer follow a logical flow, so by breaking down the steps and working through the process you learn a "logic" if you will. This process can then be applied to other non computing challenges as a problem solving exercise.
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Computer Science Principles, focused not on learning to code but on using code to solve problems.
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computational thinking — its broad usefulness as well as what fits in the circle. Skills typically include recognizing patterns and sequences, creating algorithms, devising tests for finding and fixing errors, reducing the general to the precise and expanding the precise to the general.
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Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming - The New York Times - 0 views
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They aren’t going to become programmers, but they realize these are skills that will make them better lawyers
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for example, learn to write short, tailored programs that can identify clusters of words and concepts in Supreme Court rulings more accurately than a Google search
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Code, it seems, is the lingua franca of the modern economy.
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One recent institutional adaptation is the creation of so-called CS+X initiatives at schools like Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Illinois. These programs are hybrid majors that combine computing with other disciplines, including anthropology, comparative literature and history — a nod to the reality that software skills can advance research in nearly every field.
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Today, at many universities, at least half of the student population takes the intro courses.
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coding as a window to “computational thinking,” which involves abstract reasoning, modeling and breaking down problems into the recipelike steps of an algorithm
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But research shows that many teachers define creativity as a skill that’s mainly associated with the art
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Study after study shows that new ideas are chronically rejected at many companies, even businesses that say they want more innovation.
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To cope with all this complexity, we strive for simplicity.
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So how do we unleash this potential for innovation? The first step is to face up to our (quite understandable) desire for clear-cut answers that affirm ideas with which we’re familiar.
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Better Than Resilient - Prosilient | Psychology Today - 0 views
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resilience means the ability to recover from difficult life events such as illnesses, setbacks in love and work, and bereavement
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A resilient system is not just one that doesn’t change, but more importantly one that can deal with changes by recovering from them.
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Prosilience - the ability to recover from change (snap back) and to get better.
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Life was pretty good (or just ok) with the lemons, now it is even better with Lemonade - Prosilience
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The elemental collective, of course, is the pair. Two people are the root of social experience — and of creative work.
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given that our psyches take shape through one-on-one exchanges, we’re likely set up to interact with a single person more openly and deeply than with any group
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he found that groups created a sense of community, purpose and audience, but that the truly important work ended up happening in pairs
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Two people can make their own society
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The pair is also inherently fluid and flexible
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Three legs make a table stand in place. Two legs are made for moving
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But nobody can hide in a pair.
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The pair is the primary creative unit — not just because pairs produce such a staggering amount of work but also because they help us to grasp the concept of dialectical exchange.
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And when we listen to creative people describe breakthrough moments that occur when they are alone, they often mention the sensation of having a conversation in their own minds
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs - The New York Times - 0 views
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For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent,
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the theory goes, new technology has created new jobs for software developers and data analysts
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What will the displaced workers do in the future? They all can not work at Starbucks? They can't go work at the movies either as iTunes makes it easier to see movies at home. Can they become software engineers?
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So do we ensure we/students have the skills to transfer jobs/roles easily? The challenge of manufacturing to healthcare is difficult. The ability to learn, stands at the forefront of skills to acquire.
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worked in Detroit for 10 years, you don’t have the skills to go into health care,” he said. “The market economy is not going to create the jobs by itself
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Steve Mnuchin, who said at an Axios event last week that artificial intelligence’s displacement of human jobs was “not even on our radar screen,” and “50 to 100 more years” away
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Is this not a red flag in itself that the Trump Administration does not see the rise of AI as a challenge a bigger challenge?
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and that number will rise because industrial robots are expected to quadruple.
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but the effect on male employment was up to twice as big.
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In an isolated area, each robot per thousand workers decreased employment by 6.2 workers and wages by 0.7 percent. But nationally, the effects were smaller, because jobs were created in other places.
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If automakers can charge less for cars because they employ fewer people, employment might increase elsewhere in the country,
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Is this our experience that automaton enters the equation and prices get cheaper? That would be a great research project to look into.
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From 1993 to 2007, the United States added one new industrial robot for every thousand workers — mostly in the Midwest, South and East — and Western Europe added 1.6.
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like machine learning, drones and driverless cars — will have similar effects, but on many more people
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And because the roles are elusive and difficult to measure, they can go unappreciated and unnoticed. And then they gradually fade away.
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They are the ones who seek out connections between people and ideas and foster conversation and interaction.
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Social media is my portal into the rest of the world
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My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
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My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
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Each time I liked an article, or clicked on a link, or hid another, the algorithms that curate my streams took notice and showed me only what they thought I wanted to see.
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They did exactly what I told them to do, blocking out racist, misogynist and anti-immigrant comments, hiding anyone who didn’t support Black Lives Matter, all with such deftness
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I knew about Eli Pariser’s theory on filter bubbles, or the idea that online personalization distorts the type of information we see, and even so, I still chose to let algorithms shape how I perceive the world. Everything I could want to see is available at my fingertips, and yet I didn’t look.
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Zuckerberg’s idealism is belied by his desire to duck responsibility for mediating the content of his site
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curated by software built to manage the high influx of information flowing into it
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video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own
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Vine links could be shared independent of the network, and people did so with abandon, meaning that Vines appeared scattershot around the web, defying the sorting mechanism of streams and feeds
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Vine's content did not necessarily need to go back to a central mechanism for oversight, like FaceBook & Twitter.
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At Vine’s peak, it had more than 200 million monthly users who watched videos billions of times, and it excelled at showing these sorts of commonalities: that, say, black kids in New Orleans lived and looked a lot like white kids in Florida.
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Snapchat offered its own version of cultural exchange.
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People submitted short video diaries about life in their cities, which the company compiled into a single video, viewable by anyone using the app
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But the company is now prioritizing “live stories,” which feature more mainstream events like the Super Bowl and music festivals
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future of Tumblr, the blogging platform whose endless warren of rabbit holes about gender theory, critical feminist thought and identity politics is unlike any other on the internet, is the most uncertain
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User-generated content, by and large, is not lucrative at a scale that satisfies investors, and as a result, most social-media companies are changing direction toward other revenue streams
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User generated content by itself is less marketable. What exactly do they mean? Total user generated content without any "filters" or control is not a viable product?
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have grown in popularity as people move away from public arenas for conversation, a shift caused in part by spikes in unchecked harassment on major social networks
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What happens when we would rather look inward
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We are more interested in locating alien species than understanding the humanity among the species we already live with
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Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don’t agree with
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Is Design Thinking the New Liberal Arts? - CIO Journal. - WSJ - 0 views
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Design thinking is now being applied to abstract entities, such as systems and services, as well as to devise strategies, manage change and solve complex problems.
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d.school, was launched in 2004 as a graduate program that integrates business, the social sciences, the humanities and other disciplines into more traditional engineering and product design
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take on the world’s messy problems together.
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deliberate mash-up of industry, academia and the big world beyond campus is a key
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rigorous engineering education; entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking; and the arts, which broadly encompasses creativity, innovation and design
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students needed to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.
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approach from different perspectives & even combine approaches to find innovative solutions
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has design thinking now become the new liberal arts? After pondering the question, I believe the answer is: No
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Design Thinking is frequently identified as an engaging process and methodical framework for approaching complex, multidisciplinary problems in ways that consistently result in solutions that are successful and often creative in unpredictable way
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successful design solutions are found at the intersection of "feasibility", "viability," and "desirability.'
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Do disciplines, in order to evolve and advance, need some place in which to play and from which to be provoked?… Research-as-questioning is a much freer and more playful approach to discovery. It keeps us in closer contact with our natural disposition to curiosity and wonder.”
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concluded that their action-oriented approach to problem solving did not pay proper attention to past knowledge. “A truly human-centered design, if it takes culture at all seriously, would have to take pastness seriously
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But for them to really shape the future of university learning, they will have to do a better job of engaging with precisely what the university was designed to promote, and what design thinking, with its emphasis on innovation, has thus far completely ignored: the past.”
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Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?) - The New York Times - 0 views
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Unless of course the task is tortuous, then we are prone to look for distraction. We would rather help others work on this tortuous task.
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by doing more you’re getting less done.
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It’s a digital literacy skill
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If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”
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monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.
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humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks
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I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”
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That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day
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Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it
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Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation
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After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”
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Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time
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