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Tom Woodward

Busy Is a Sickness | Scott Dannemiller - 1 views

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busyness culture

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  • Tom Woodward on 09 Mar 15
     
    To extend Friday's conversation even further . . . "The second type of busyness also results in health problems, but it is a sickness we bring on ourselves. Like voluntarily licking the door handle of a preschool bathroom or having a sweaty picnic in the Ball Pit at Chuck E. Cheese's. It's busyness we control. Self-created stress. Ever since my conversation a month ago, I realized that my busyness is this second type. Busyness we control. In fact, many times I create rush and worry where none exists. Any typical morning, you can find me riding my kids like a couple of three-dollar mules in a sea of marbles, begging them to move faster." h/t D'Arcy Norman
Tom Woodward

How to Design A Modern Office Space for Optimism - 0 views

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spaces learning office design weekly

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  • Tom Woodward on 03 Jan 16
     
    "When you look around an office, nine times out of 10 you can tell if it was designed for fear. How does fear manifest in space? High walls. No windows. Closed spaces. By extracting management from the doers and makers of the company, there's plausible deniability. When conversation is inhibited by high-walled cubicles, information is controlled. And to effectively instill fear in office culture, you have to control information. You have to make sure teams are segmented into departments, information is transmitted linearly and power is centralized."
sanamuah

How to Maintain Your Digital Identity As An Academic | Vitae - 0 views

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Digital Identity onlinelearning

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  • sanamuah on 02 Jul 15
     
    "Take control. In a nutshell, if you do not have a clear online presence, you are allowing Google, Yahoo, and Bing to create your identity for you. As a Lifehacker post on this topic once noted: "You want search engine queries to direct to you and your accomplishments, not your virtual doppelgangers.""
Jonathan Becker

How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours? Academic Freedom and Control of the Classroom - ... - 2 views

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hybrid pedagogy academic freedom onlinelearning learning online rees

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  • Jonathan Becker on 26 Jan 16
     
    Come for the argument, stay for the Monty Python clip...
Jody Symula

Classroom Freedom Versus Control | Vitae - 3 views

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active learning feed

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  • Jody Symula on 29 Jun 15
     
    "How do I balance my desire to integrate student-centered learning practices with my almost pathological need to have every last bit of the course planned out and thought through? Most of my pedagogy research has suggested that we as faculty should be looking for ways to give students a real sense of ownership in the classroom. One of our goals should be to create an atmosphere that leaves space for students take an active role in their own learning. How, then, do we design a course before even meeting our students? Isn't there a danger in showing up to the first day of class with a syllabus that shows the whole course planned out? By doing so, aren't we clearly communicating to the students that the instructor is in charge, that if you know what's good for you, you'll follow these rules?"
anonymous

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

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open medium

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  • 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.
anonymous

A New Pedagogy is Emerging... and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contac... - 4 views

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  • continuing development of new knowledge, making it difficult to compress all that learners need to know within the limited time span of a post-secondary course or program.
  • ncreased emphasis on skills or applying knowledge to meet the demands of 21st century society, skills such as critical thinking, independent learning, knowing how to use relevant information technology, software, and data within a field of discipline, and entrepreneurialism.
  • developing students with the skills to manage their own learning throughout life
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  • Today’s students have grown up in a world where technology is a natural part of their environment. Their expectation is that technology will be used where appropriate to help them learn, develop essential information and technology literacy skills, and master the technology fluency necessary in their specific subject domain.
  • Recent developments in digital technologies, especially web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and social media, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, have given the end user, the learner, much more control over access to and the creation and sharing of knowledge.
  • anonymous on 10 Feb 14
     
    Via Stephen Downes's recent post; a nice accessible summary discussion for non-techies about how technology is changing teaching. Good teaching resource, I think.
Tom Woodward

Two Games That Undermine The Concept of Games :: Games :: Features :: Paste - 1 views

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games concept weekly

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  • In my first play-through of Stanley, I gave the game the benefit of the doubt and did absolutely everything it told me to do; the game’s voiced-over narration explains which path to take, and I did what I was told. The result is a boring, cliché videogame narrative that takes only a few minutes to complete: the protagonist, Stanley, has been mind-controlled by a mysterious machine, and when he discovers this, he turns the machine off and escapes to the real world. The game ends with Stanley outside, finally “free” of having been told what to do … the irony being that I, the player, have done exactly what I was told to do by the narrator in order to achieve this result.
  • Tom Woodward on 12 Dec 13
     
    "The way to "beat" this set of endless staircases is to turn around. Turning around will not take you back down the hallway that you used to get to the stairs; it will take you to a new room entirely. In most videogame-and in, y'know, actual rooms in real life-turning around will take you back to the place you just were. In Antichamber, going backwards often results in discovering a totally new area. "
sanamuah

App Gives Students an Incentive to Keep Their Phones Locked in Class - Wired Campus - B... - 1 views

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3rdspace

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  • Resisting the urge to pull out your phone in class is quite difficult for many students, apparently. There are texts to answer, emails to read, snapchats to send, and rude comments to post on Yik Yak. But two students at California State University at Chico have created something they hope will persuade students to keep their phones tucked firmly in their pockets: An app that rewards them with coupons for local businesses when they exhibit self-control and leave their phones untouched during class.
sanamuah

Rosetta Stone Comes to Your Xbox | Rosetta Stone® Blog - 1 views

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rosetta stone xbox language

shared by sanamuah on 25 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Playing video games is great cognitive exercise; it helps improve your focus, memory, and ability to multitask. And now with Rosetta Stone’s Discover Languages Xbox launch, you can also use a video game to learn a new language. Rosetta Stone’s new application teaches English and Spanish by way of immersive simulation. Virtual travel experiences teach you the vocabulary and grammar necessary for real-world interactions. So before you book a flight to a foreign destination, grab your controller.
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