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David Wetzel

Benefits of Student Digital Footprints in Science and Math | Teaching Science and Math - 12 views

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    In contrast to the technology teachers use in a classroom for their professional use, what is the technology (or digital) footprint of your students?
Sean Nash

NYC Street Trees by Species - 2 views

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    A very cool dynamic data set laid atop a map of the streets of New Your City... "New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city's street trees based on the last tree census."
Sandra Goodrich

Postmodern Beatnik · Why sit in a tree? - 2 views

  • private property rights and the pursuit of profit do not trump the needs of our communities and our planet.
  • the earth is alive and we are all interconnected, to nature and to each other. When we live from this new/old story, the world looks very different—and we can no longer accept business as usual.
  • in order to change this business as usual, we’ve got to change the story we have about who we are and how the world works. We act as though the earth were a dead ball of matter spinning through the cosmos and running like a machine and as though human beings were truly autonomous actors independent not only of the environment but of each other.
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  • property rights are attenuated by the concept of stewardship, which requires property owners to maintain the ecological integrity of their land for the benefit of all.
  • bring attention to this larger picture.
  • bullying in public life has become all too common.
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