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Patrick Higgins

How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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    You all need to read this.
Patrick Higgins

Google LatLong: Roman history comes to life in Google Earth - 0 views

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    hmmmmm....
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    Google unveils a major new layer for Earth. Plus, there is a K12 competition for writing curriculum around it.
Patrick Higgins

Music & Life - 0 views

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    Watch this. Now.
Patrick Higgins

Hacking Education | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on E... - 0 views

  • Students in the future will be as likely to be evaluated on their portfolio of work, as they are on their grades.
  • If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news
  • But the most important thing about that was, I learned how to be obsessed with things... I got obsessed with these things and I had a series of stages in my life where I got obsesses with something else. And I just immersed myself to learn as much as I could. And it's that mechanism I used again and again and again in my professional life. So how do you teach kids to be obsessed with things?
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    Take a look at the annotations I made. To do this, you must have Diigo installed via Firefox. I think that might be our new project for the year--annotating articles for discussion at meetings.
Erica Hartman

Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning - 0 views

  • ... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.
  • .. analytical reasoning. Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision needs to be made, we start with data. That means we can talk about what we know, instead of what we think we know.
  • . a willingness to experiment. Non-routine problems call for non-routine solutions and there is no formula for success. A well-designed experiment calls for a range of treatments, explicit control groups, and careful post-treatment analysis. Sometimes an experiment kills off a pet theory, so you need a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.
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  • ... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.
  • ... passion and leadership. This could be professional or in other life experiences: learning languages or saving forests, for example. The main thing, to paraphrase Mr. Drucker, is to be motivated by a sense of importance about what you do.
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    Great article from the Google Blog about who they want and how to promote thinking skills in the classroom.
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    Read this. It's worth it.
Patrick Higgins

Between Classes...living a balanced life as a quality teacher - 0 views

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    I really like the piece she infuses here about the limits on student writing--there shouldn't be. Too often we only allow students to write that which we can grade. Why?
Patrick Higgins

Practical Learning: Reuniting Thinking and Doing - 0 views

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    I love this article. Very timely as well.
Patrick Higgins

Executive Summary | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 2 views

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    Interesting research about the new findings regarding the effects of new communication.
Patrick Higgins

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth - 2 views

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    This author brings up the question that I've wrestled with before: just because we can, does it mean that we should? Or should our abilities always go to make us more human?
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    This is such a scary topic but something that needs to be thought about. This has happened in our own town, instead of helping, people are video taping someone being beat up. I wonder though how this happens? Does it happen because it can or we have the technology to allow it or has the moral compass of our nation changed so that we don't see anything wrong with it? Crazy article.
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    Did you watch the "This American Life' cartoon? That is exactly what you are describing, where even the premise of creating news shows altered how kids behaved in the face of a situation that called for social action. It raises the question for me of "should the kids know more how to operate the high tech camera, or when to step out from behind it and act?"
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    Yeah I watched the cartoon and saved it in hopes that I can show it to my students one day and have that discussion. I think they NEED to know how to step out and act - being a good person and citizen should always be number one and if they do that then they will use their technology for the best things! I love these diigo posts - thanks!
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