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Tony Searl

danah boyd | apophenia » "Bullying" Has Little Resonance with Teenagers - 1 views

  • We need to create environments where young people don’t get validated for negative attention and where they don’t see relationship drama as part of normal adult life.
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    We need interventions that focus on building empathy, identifying escalation, and techniques for stopping the cycles of abuse.
John Pearce

What's WRONG with the edublogosphere? - Dangerously Irrelevant - 5 views

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    Scott McLeod poses the question of what's wrong with the edublogosphere and the answers are in the commentary responses. A really important read and exactly the way we would wish most blog posting would evolve.
Tony Searl

The Gates Foundation as a Philanthropic Case Study | LFA: Join The Conversation - Publi... - 0 views

  • “I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts."
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      agree with that
  • next to nothing is spent on education research. "That's partly because of the problem of who would do it. Who thinks of it as their business? The 50 states don't think of it that way, and schools of education are not about research.
  • rving videos
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      just how Sydney Uni/Sydney Teacher's College informed my practice 30 years ago. Bathwater principle envoked. Why did it ever stop?
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    Gates says his foundation is currently focusing on using private funds to inform and redirect how public education dollars are spent, specifically in the form of research.- my note "agreeable findings" concern as "research" can then rapidly influence policy.
Tony Searl

Big history to give students big picture | The Australian - 4 views

  • "He and I agreed immediately on the idea that education is so compartmentalised," Mr Clark said. "Kids go to maths and they do that in isolation, they go to science and they do that in isolation.
  • "Big history just ties everything together. And I think a lot of history had become obscure and irrelevant to modern students."
Tony Searl

Users for Sale: Has Digital Illiteracy Turned Us Into Social Commodities? - things that... - 3 views

  • I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
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    it also makes the process more transparent to us. Yes, this has always been going on, but now in some ways we are becoming more aware of it.
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