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Dennis OConnor

Approaches to governance of participant-led research: a qualitative case study | BMJ Open - 0 views

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    "Prospective consent and governance principles for participant-led research Nine themes emerged from discussions and interviews relating to informed consent in and governance of PLR. As this PLR was driven by people with different backgrounds asking personal questions, we found that ethical reflection needed to be ongoing and tailored to the individual. For this reason, prospective governance principles were drafted rather than codified rules. Many of the themes were expressed over the course of our PLR as an ongoing informed consent. The process, fostered via frequent communication, helped to reinforce trust among participants and organisers.43 44 Transparency: All relevant information about the project should be actively shared among participants and participant-organisers, including the source of research funding, equipment selection, data management protocols, risks and benefits and conflicts of interest. Access to Expertise: Participant-led research (PLR) requires access to experts (eg, in experimental design, data analysis, research ethics) so that participants can rigorously carry out single-subject experiments.45 Data Access & Control: The participant has the right and ability to manage their own data, and has the final say in what they collect about themselves. Right to Withdraw: Participants have a right to reduce or withdraw their participation at any time. Relevance: PLR addresses questions of relevance to the participants. Beneficence: The participant actively reflects on the balance of benefits and risks of participation and freely choose whether to participate. Responsibility: PLR requires that the participant actively consider the potential benefits and harms of the project to both themselves and others. The responsibility to stay informed is an ongoing process, not a one-time decision. Flexibility: Ethical reflection in PLR should be tailored to individual needs and to the specific context, rather than be handled with 'one size fits allâ€
Dennis OConnor

On Teaching: Learning From Black Educators - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • “You need a sincere love for children,” Grenell liked to remind Moore. “Never give up on a child.”
  • firm and demanding, but also warm and encouraging.
  • She was named Mississippi Teacher of the Year in 2001 and won the prestigious Milken Award.
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  • Students will go to great lengths to hide from me what they don’t know.
  • I do that very intentionally at the beginning of the semester to signal: “I see you as a human being. I’m paying attention to what you say to me. You are a unique individual with skills and ideas that matter.”
  • That’s important, because a lot of students have told me that no one’s ever actually read what they wrote. What they mean by that is that their writing has been graded, but it’s never been read.
  • Then, at the end of the semester, I give them the introduction letter back. And the final exam is an essay where they have to reflect on their portfolio: all of the written pieces they produced in the course of the semester.
  • they’re not used to measuring it in terms of actual skills and knowledge. They're always stunned at how far they’ve come.
  • The students have been so used to having their grammar criticized that they over-censor themselves when they’re writing.
  • The message was always, “When you go to college.” It was always, “You can do it.
  • “You get educated for the benefit of the community and the race.”
  • Today we have wasted a generation, telling young people that the primary reason to pursue education is to get into a well-paying career. In rural or economically depressed areas like Delta, looking at education chiefly as a path to social mobility—rather than a path to full citizenship, one’s sense of agency and freedom—can actually depress achievement and increase hopelessness. B
  • By attaching the dreams and aspirations of African American students to a higher good, their expectations are infused with a meaningful purpose.
  • For a lot of the kids now, school is just drudgery from beginning to end—particularly schools that serve poor Black students. There’s no music curriculum, no arts curriculum, no vocational classes.
  • They congratulated me, because I was going to Washington, D.C., to receive the award. These women had taken up money among themselves, put it in a handkerchief, tied it, and handed it to me, as a way to celebrate that I was going to see the president—and represent Black people in a society that questions Black intelligence. I cried. They cried. It was the most touching thing.
  • I am a reflection of the accumulated wisdom these teachers passed on to me. All of these great teachers who had preceded me, who taught in segregated schools under horrible conditions, with no equal pay.
Dennis OConnor

COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint | CIDRAP - 0 views

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    "Welcome to "COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint." Our intent with the Viewpoint series is to add key information regarding the pandemic, address issues that haven't garnered the attention they deserve, and reflect the unique expertise among the CIDRAP team and our expert consultants. In this periodic series of reports we will address timely issues with straight talk and clarity. And the steps we recommend will be based on our current reality and the best available data. Our goal is to help planners envision some of the situations that might present themselves later this year or next year so that they can take key steps now, while there's still time. Upcoming reports will address supply chains, epidemiologic issues, key areas for research, and other pressing topics."
Dennis OConnor

Self-Tracking (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series): Neff, Gina, Nafus, Dawn: 9780... - 0 views

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    "What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience-in particular, health and wellness-related experience-into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates."
Dennis OConnor

Poetry of Resilience: From Haiku to Free Verse | San Diego Public Library - 0 views

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    Registration for this event will close on December 11, 2021 @ 4:00pm. There are 8 seats remaining. Event Details This is an in-person event at the San Diego Central Library. Masks are required for unvaccinated patrons and social distancing protocol will be followed. During World War II, heroic San Diego librarian Clara Breed exchanged hundreds of letters with young Japanese Americans in concentration camps, serving as a reminder of the possibility for decency and justice in a troubled world. Join 14 of San Diego's best poets including the City's inaugural Poet Laureate, Ron Salisbury, for an afternoon of restorative poetry. Poets will read and perform poems written specifically for this current historical moment of deep national reflection and a deadly pandemic which has locked down our lives and created isolation and fear.
Dennis OConnor

Oji Emotions - 0 views

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    "We've built a learning experience from the ground to develop these essential skills. There's something for everyone: expert videos, engaging activities, the Mood Meter tool, personal reflections, and much more."
Dennis OConnor

Nostalgia can relieve pain | EurekAlert! - 0 views

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    "Reflecting on fond memories goes a step beyond making you feel warm and fuzzy: nostalgia can reduce pain perception. Nostalgia decreases activity in pain-related brain areas and decreases subjective ratings of thermal pain, according to research recently published in JNeurosci."
Dennis OConnor

Here's Why You Should Care About Holacracy - 1 views

  • For the first time in over a century, we’re beginning to see credible alternatives, and most of them point to this idea of responsiveness–that an organization should be built to learn and respond rapidly by optimizing for the open flow of information; encouraging experimentation and learning in rapid cycles; and organizing a network of employees, customers and partners motivated by a shared purpose.
  • Holacracy is simply the first fully formed alternative to C&C that real companies are using successfully. Is it the only replacement? Should everyone switch to it immediately? Definitely not. There will be many other operating models to choose from in the near future.
  • anies with traditional hierarchy can only change as fast as their leaders can handle it.
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  • To avoid chaos, it actually forces you to define roles and accountabilities far more rigorously than the old C&C system
  • Responsive organizations also risk falling prey to the tyranny of consensus and backtracking to old systems of authority. That’s why clear rules and protocols–like those outlined by Holacracy–are so vital and tend to work well.
  • to explain Holacracy, let’s look at what changes it makes
  • Holacracy forces a company to revisit its rules, roles, objectives, and authorities in short cycles. This prevents you from over-planning upfront.
  • you know that companies create products and services that are reflections of themselves. So it makes sense that in order to rapidly iterate your product, you should also rapidly iterate how your organization works.
  • By constantly iterating, Holacratic companies can relieve new tensions caused by changes so they can learn and adapt fast.
  • Working on the right thing is as–if not more important–than how hard you are working.
  • It’s not a waste to build multiple versions if it helps you find the right one.
  • In Holacracy, teams are renamed “circles,” and they can be created or destroyed anytime.
  • Circles only have the authority to change things that are in the domain of their authority.
  • People identify 1-1 with their title, making them imprecise and inflexible.
  • Holacracy fixes this problem by decoupling “role from soul.”
  • You can have more roles than employees, and it’s expected that people will fill multiple roles within several circles.
  • While Holacracy may have a hierarchy of circles, it tries to decouple the humans from that hierarchy as much as possible.
  • work which can be done wholly within a formal team is much easier than work that requires participation from multiple teams.
  • Holacratic orgs tend to spend more time arguing about who should be able to decide and why that wasn’t clear to begin with
  • The most effective way to solve any problem is to put together all of the people with the skills required to solve it.
  • Writ large: Distributing decision-making isn’t easy. It goes against generations of learned behaviors and deep-seated mental models.
  • Each circle has a single role called Lead Link who has authority over assigning people to other roles in the circle.
  • Holacracy makes it easy and relatively friction free to create new circles, rearrange people within them, tear it all down and start again.
  • Holacracy deals with this by creating rules around proposals that favor the proposer over objectors.
  • ritualistically squashed.
  • Thus, proposals are deemed “safe to try” as long as everyone agrees that they’ll help gather valuable data. “Safe to try” is a key idea in Holacracy.
  • The only valid objections are A) this circle doesn’t have the authority over the domain you’re changing or B) there is proof the change will cause material harm to the business before it could be mitigated.
  • You can’t simply object because you don’t like an idea or have a better one.
  • Of course, most of the rules are tribal. “Because that’s how we’ve always done it,” is a common phrase at traditional companies.
  • the rules have to be written down so anyone can look them up and quickly figure out who owns what and what the policies really are.
  • Glassfrog is the name of the software you use to help you run a Holacratic company. It’s theoretically possible to run Holacracy without it, but it would be hard.
  • Glassfrog helps you document your organizational structure, circles, roles, accountabilities, policies, etc. It also aids in running meetings. Finally, it provides an ongoing record of changes made to the organization.
  • For a distributed org to function, much more needs to be done in public, where it can be easily discovered by others.
  • . The point isn’t to pre-determine what works for everyone. It’s to give you a basic structure that helps you make the rules transparent, easy to change, and to increase the rate at which you change them.
  • The biggest challenge is dealing with how wrong everything feels at first.
  • ou have to give the new system a real try, which means using it to relieve tensions, reinvent itself and solve the problems it creates.
  • Holacracy “feels” weird to most newcomers.
  • In Holacracy, the power goes to the process itself, making it difficult for individuals to take advantage of their positions.
  • They also agree that Holacracy is not a panacea or definitive replacement for C&C.
  • There is no way to design a permanent org structure where the right people can work together with as few dependencies as possible.
  • f you choose to follow their lead, remember that distributing authority isn’t binary–it’s a spectrum.
  • not let the problems you know you will encounter get in the way.
Dennis OConnor

Team | reflect-copy - 1 views

  • HEIDI RATAJ
  • THERESA HOILES
  • PRODUCER, DIRECTOR & SPEAKE
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  • PRODUCER & WRITER
  • What’s more important, quality of life or quantity?”
  • Theresa learned early that age is not an excuse to slow down.
  • Through storytelling, she wants to break the stereotypes associated with aging.
  • This series convinced Heidi that life should be measured in quality not quantity
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    "Gray Matters, the new podcast series, will continue our mission to discuss how we can all age successfully. Heidi Rataj, MA Producer, Gerontologist & Entrepreneur re'flect, the documentary series has aired nationally on over 50 PBS stations in over 40 cities and is spreading the positive aging conversation around the US. "
Dennis OConnor

The Five Minute Journal® - Simplest, most effective way to be happier. - Inte... - 0 views

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    "The simplest thing you can do to start your day happier by focusing on the positive and becoming more mindful. The Five Minute Journal's guided and structured exercises will lead you down a path toward an enhanced version of the person you already are. "
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