Group items tagged

"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."

Another option (other than Diigo) to create some bundled work based on bookmarking . . .

"Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest is an important and straight to the point book that reminds us that, ultimately, we're up against intimidating asymmetries of power and knowledge. Stronger actors -whether they are corporations, governmental bodies or influential people- have better tools at their disposal if they want to hide something. What we have is obfuscation. It might require time, money, efforts, attention but it gives us some leverage as well as some measures of resistance and dignity. "

"If you've heard me speak in the last several months, you've probably heard me rail against "disposable assignments." These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They're assignments that add no value to the world - after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away. Not only do these assignments add no value to the world, they actually suck value out of the world. Talk about an incredible waste of time and brain power (an a potentially huge source of cognitive surplus)!"

2 Frameworks in my UNIV 291 - SYT course to teach students how to write blog comments. They seem to have helped them a bit. I could tell if they have read this through.

Interesting. My first thought: if music can throw off one's moral compass, what does that mean for listening to music while driving.

Looks like a cool, powerful tool for in-class quizzing and review, designed to facilitate collaboration, competition, and discussion. 

Need to give this a try.