Research | Becky Mansfield - 0 views
Open Spaces Workshops on Scientific & Social Change | Diigo - Groups - 0 views
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The School | The Mycelium School - 0 views
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The Mycelium School holds three core beliefs. Education for the 21st Century should: 1) Facilitate a textured understanding of self 2) Provide diverse and learner-centered opportunities for the participant to develop connection and purpose 3) Provide the tools needed to manifest meaningful connection in the world
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Social Networks on Ning: A Sensible Alternative to Facebook | Snurblog - 0 views
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The main problem here is with the thoughtlessness with which Facebook handles what should be its central asset - the social networks that its users belong to. Social networks are defined in the first place by the term 'friend', but being friends with someone on the site is no more than a binary decision: you either are, or you're not. There's no opportunity to do what we do in our lives outside of Facebook every day - to distinguish between different types and levels of friendship: work colleagues, old school friends, family members, neighbours, ex-lovers, casual acquaintances must all be classified simply as either 'friend' or 'non-friend'. What's the use of that?
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This fundamentally ignores some of the basics of how we as humans understand the social networks we're embedded in. We don't just see everyone as our 'friends', but instead have social ties with others that are more or less strong - and for most of us, there's a pretty low upper limit on the maximum number of really close friends we have.
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Perhaps it's just poor or lazy design; perhaps the flatness of the site's social structure is somehow driven by the deeply entrenched neo-con views that some claim exist amongst Facebook's founders - a libertarian vision of sociality centred around highly independent individuals rather than around strong communities bound by consensually developed, ever-evolving social protocols?
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Interview: Melissa Leach | Special Reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Leach and her colleagues had shown how experts can reach wildly wrong conclusions if local knowledge and history are not taken into account.
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It promises to question the "assumption that the world is stable, predictable and knowable through a single form of knowledge that assumes one size fits all".
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Leach wants the centre to involve "citizens and decision-makers of all levels".
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