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David

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

shared by David on 17 Sep 11 - Cached
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Sort of like a motion-sensor camera that only activates and records when there's a change in the environment...
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Is it a coincidence that the rise of FB has been in line with the rise in reality tv?
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Why do we care about other people's gossip?
  • “Frankly, I don’t need to know or care that Billy broke up with Sally, and Ted has become friends with Steve.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      While some people don't want to know this kind of info. Many people apparently do. 
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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.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      I'm wondering how the "news feed" of facebook has influenced our expectations for other contexts. Has it made us expect efficiency? Has it made us lazy? 
  • Users’ worries about their privacy seemed to vanish within days, boiled away by their excitement at being so much more connected to their friends
  • social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
  • 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?
  • “I really hate it when people clip their nails on the bus”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      For me this is facebook type material. To my way of thinking Twitter should make me better - better informed, better connected, a better professional, human being etc.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      I think it all adds up to a growing informality in our day to day communications... brevity, immediacy, intimacy
  • 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.
  • Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends’ lives in a way he never had before.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is not the promoted use of Twitter... I always see it as an intellectual/professional connection tool, but is that just the way it's evolved?
  • But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence”
  • Ambient intimacy becomes a way to “feel less alone,” as more than one Facebook and Twitter user told me.
  • “I have a rule,” she told me. “I either have to know who you are, or I have to know of you.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      What rules do other's have about their social media? We were talking about this kind of thing in G9 PSHE the other day
  • awareness tools aren’t as cognitively demanding as an e-mail message.
  • “Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are these gratifying relationships? I don't know that I have gratifying relationships built on snippets of info...
  • What sort of relationships are these? What does it mean to have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook? What kind of friends are they, anyway?
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      How do the fact that we are wrestling with these questions impact our relationships IRL (in real life)? Are they all in real life or are they distinct? 
  • This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip so
    • David
      David on 17 Sep 11
       
      twitter feeds are "skimmable", don't have to read in great detail
  • 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?
  • “I outsource my entire life,” she said. “I can solve any problem on Twitter in six minutes.”
  • 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.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • “They can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • the sheer ease of following her friends’ updates online has made her occasionally lazy about actually taking the time to visit them in person.
  • It brings back the dynamics of small-town life, where everybody knows your business
  • a culture of people who know much more about themselves.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Also maybe also a culture of narcissists.  http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/aboutbook.html
  • 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
  • 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.
  • “It drags you out of your own head,
Thinnes Anne-Marie

The Innovative Educator: Discover what your digital footprint says about you - 0 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...at-your-digital-footprint.html

digitalfootprint- library classes

shared by Thinnes Anne-Marie on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Thinnes Anne-Marie on 09 Nov 11
     
    A list of simple activities for classes on digital footprint
Miss Uchii

Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 17 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...back-to-the-wrong-school.html

shared by Miss Uchii on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      Read this article and leave a sticky note comment on anything that resonates with you. You can also highlight any words that particularly strike a chord with you.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      I like the title.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I like Seth Godin!
  • Back to (the wrong) school
  • standardized testing
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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?
  • The bottom is not a good place to be, even if you're capable of getting there.
  • Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      This reminds me of the book The World is Flat
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      It makes me crazy that Seth Godin does not permit people to comment on his blog posts.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Ya, what's with that? I'm surprised he's not more open considering his purple cow worldview.
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      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.
    • Garry Leroy Baker
      Garry Leroy Baker on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are teachers in tradable or non-tradable positions?
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Interesting question. Certainly the nature of the POSSIBILITIES of what we do has changed. My mother was a teacher and I don't feel that she had the same opportunities to shift what she did the same way that I can.
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I agree!
    • Sunita Devadas
      Sunita Devadas on 17 Sep 11
       
      me tooo!!
  • Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
    • Jean Hino
      Jean Hino on 17 Sep 11
       
      We are teaching to a new generation
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yes, yes we are...
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      A new generation, not by birth but by education.  An octogenarian can equally become a part of the new generation depending on their commitment to learning new skills. 
  • 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
    • Rebekah Madrid
      Rebekah Madrid on 17 Sep 11
       
      Links to my Child Labor (gr 8) assignment. Interesting way to start a class (Compare and Contrast)
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is why I never follow the instructions :) 
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Whats this??
    • tasha cowdy
      tasha cowdy on 17 Sep 11
       
      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?
    • Madeleine Cox
      Madeleine Cox on 17 Sep 11
       
      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.
  • 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.
    • Chie Mizukoshi
      Chie Mizukoshi on 17 Sep 11
       
      That is ture. It reflects on a country's politics too.
  • igning chairs and answering the phone) and non-tradable jobs (like mowing the lawn or cooking burger
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      what????
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Exactly!
  • Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told.
    • Susan MacIntosh
      Susan MacIntosh on 17 Sep 11
       
      Consider Pink's assertion that our society will become a "thinking economy" where jobs will reflect emphasis on leadership skills.  Are we there yet?
    • Brendan Lea
      Brendan Lea on 17 Sep 11
       
      Finally got this working on the iPad 
  • disconnect
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Weird how disconnect is a noun but connect isn't.
  • post-industrial revolution
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      This revolution just simply changes how people understands the world and changes how people react to each other.  New kinds of training is needed more and more. 
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