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Jonathan Becker

PIRSA - Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive - 0 views

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    "PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics."
Tom Woodward

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 1 views

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    A broad spectrum of media that is available under CC licenses.
Yin Wah Kreher

Teaching materials from the David Foster Wallace archive - 1 views

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    Teaching materials from the David Foster Wallace archive
Jonathan Becker

Hypothes.is Collector « John Stewart - 1 views

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    "In order to make it easier to track activity in Hypothes.is, I created a program called Hypothes.is Collector. The idea is that you can type in user name, a URL, a tag, or a group ID and click the button to see all of the related annotations. The program will create a new sheet with an archive of up to 200 annotations based on the search terms.  It will then create a third sheet that will count how many of these annotations were made on each URL in the set by each user."
Tom Woodward

Writing From Photographs : Digital Literacy - 1 views

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    "It's not that my memory improved but, instead, that I started archiving these events and ideas with my phone, as photographs. Now, if I want to research the painter whose portraits I admired at the museum, I don't have to read through page after page of my chicken scratch trying to find her name. When I need the title of a novel someone recommended, I just scroll back to the day we were at the bookstore together. Looking through my photo stream, there is a caption about Thomas Jefferson smuggling seeds from Italy, which I want to research; a picture of a tree I want to identify, which I need to send to my father; the nutritional label from a seasoning that I want to re-create; and a man with a jungle of electrical cords in the coffee shop, whose picture I took because I wanted to write something about how our wireless lives are actually full of wires. Photography has changed not only the way that I make notes but also the way that I write. Like an endless series of prompts, the photographs are a record of half-formed ideas to which I hope to return."
Tom Woodward

Screenshots as POV - The Message - Medium - 0 views

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    " Back then, I perceived my experiences on the internet as ephemeral. My screenshot habit picked up when I began thinking of my time online as something archived and traced."
anonymous

Google Cultural Institute - 1 views

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    collection of museum and archive exhibits
Jonathan Becker

Take Back the Archive - 1 views

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    Don't miss the work of @scholarslab, @lisa_goff, and @RareUVA to #TakeBackTheArchive: http://t.co/I1Yft8je6A. #UVa
Jonathan Becker

Wikipedia Dominates Among Smartphone Users Looking For News and Information - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "Another way to look at Wikipedia's influence: Wikipedia reaches almost one-third of the total mobile population each month, according to Knight's analysis, which used data from the audience-tracking firm Nielsen. "
Tom Woodward

dy/dan » Blog Archive » [NCTM16] Beyond Relevance & Real World: Stronger Stra... - 0 views

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    "My premise is that we're all sympathetic towards students who dislike mathematics, this course they're forced to take. We all have answers to the question, "What does it take to interest students in mathematics?" Though those answers are often implicit and unspoken, they're powerful. They determine the experiences students have in our classes. I lay out three of the most common answers I hear from teachers, principals, policymakers, publishers, etc., two of which are "make math real world" and "make math relevant." I offer evidence that those answers are incomplete and unreliable. Then I dive into research from Willingham, Kasmer, Roger & David Johnson, Mayer, et al., presenting stronger strategies for creating interest in mathematics education. "
anonymous

Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • 85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
  • The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
  • For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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  • If your job was to feed people, but you were only measured by the efficiency of calories delivered, you may learn over time that high-calorie, high-processed foods were the most efficient ways to deliver calories,” he says. They would be the most margin-friendly way to deliver calories. But the food still wouldn’t be good—because the original metric didn’t take into account “sustainability, or health, or nourishment, or happiness of the people.”
  • Google and Facebook, just two companies, send more than 80 percent of all traffic to news sites. (No wonder they make 85 cents of every digital-ad dollar.
Jonathan Becker

No, the 'College Bubble' Isn't Popping - 1 views

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    Well, except enrollments *are* down slightly at VCU...
Tom Woodward

The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics - Alexis C. Madr... - 1 views

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    "I'm talking about @HistoryInPics, which, as I discovered, is run by two teenagers: Xavier Di Petta, 17, who lives in a small Australian town two hours north of Melbourne, and Kyle Cameron, 19, a student in Hawaii. "
Tom Woodward

dy/dan » Blog Archive » [Fake World] Culture Beats Curriculum - 0 views

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    "If your students worship grades, they won't complete assignments without knowing how many points it's worth. If they worship stickers and candy, they won't work without the promise of those prizes. If you say a prayer to the "real world" every time you sit down to plan your math lessons, you and your students will never have enough real world, never feel you have enough connection to jobs and solar panels and trains leaving Chicago and things made of stuff. If you instead say a prayer to the atomic sensation of being puzzled and the catharsis that comes from being unpuzzled, you will never get enough of being puzzled and unpuzzled."
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