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Why Johnny Can't Search - 6 views
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This is what we are starting to teach in 5th grade library as students prepare to begin a long research project.
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Thank you Ruth! This article is just about what I am trying to do with my students for years! This is very motivating! I found out last year that linking evaluating and citing sources is a good think to keep students focused: they search the author, publisher etc... and evaluate at the same time. You can read my blog post http://www.coetail.asia/amthinnes/ "changing the way we are teaching" (Sorry, the blog is difficult to read... getting better every week...) , for more info about it. The link I used so far is not bad from 9 grade, but too difficult for the younger children. If you have a better one, let me know! Anyway, it is great to know that we are at the same page.... Cheers, Anne-Marie
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The potential seemed endless.
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I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“Frankly, I don’t need to know or care that Billy broke up with Sally, and Ted has become friends with Steve.”
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When I spoke to him, Zuckerberg argued that News Feed is central to Facebook’s success. “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope,” he said.
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Users’ worries about their privacy seemed to vanish within days, boiled away by their excitement at being so much more connected to their friends
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In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?
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“I really hate it when people clip their nails on the bus”
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The phenomenon is quite different from what we normally think of as blogging, because a blog post is usually a written piece, sometimes quite long: a statement of opinion, a story, an analysis.
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Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends’ lives in a way he never had before.
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But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
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Ambient intimacy becomes a way to “feel less alone,” as more than one Facebook and Twitter user told me.
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“I have a rule,” she told me. “I either have to know who you are, or I have to know of you.”
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“Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
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What sort of relationships are these? What does it mean to have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook? What kind of friends are they, anyway?
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This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip so
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psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
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This rapid growth of weak ties can be a very good thing. Sociologists have long found that “weak ties” greatly expand your ability to solve problems.
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Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
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the sheer ease of following her friends’ updates online has made her occasionally lazy about actually taking the time to visit them in person.
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a culture of people who know much more about themselves.
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Also maybe also a culture of narcissists. http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/aboutbook.html
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t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site
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The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act.
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Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 17 views
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Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
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Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
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It makes me crazy that Seth Godin does not permit people to comment on his blog posts.
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Ya, what's with that? I'm surprised he's not more open considering his purple cow worldview.
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His line is that he knows himself well enough to know that he'll get "into it" with commenters... and that he doesn't want to spend his life energy in conflict with the haters. I get that... but there's no opportunity for conversation at its source.
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
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Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
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Sure, there was some moral outrage at seven-year olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
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s we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here's the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
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How does this relate to national, as well as international schools? So many discussions on Twitter that I've followed seem to come from educators at U.S. state schools who are struggling with the restrictions imposed by law and policy makers, which seem intent on crushing creativity and connections within - and between - schools.
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Our current system of teaching kids to sit in straight rows and obey instructions isn't a coincidence--it was an investment in our economic future. The plan: trade short-term child labor wages for longer-term productivity by giving kids a head start in doing what they're told.
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igning chairs and answering the phone) and non-tradable jobs (like mowing the lawn or cooking burger
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Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told.
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News: 'The World Is Open' - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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What if someone listened to hundreds of podcasts, watched dozens of online lectures, explored countless online resources related to Introduction to Auditing, Astronomy 101, or Ancient Rome, and then discussed them with friends and family or reflected on many of them in an online forum or series of blog posts?
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The jury is still out on the need for a guide or facilitator in open education. As co-editor of a handbook of blended learning, I can say that I personally believe that blended is best. Recent research seems to suggest that this is true
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World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog - 0 views
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