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Student woodwork on display at Palomar on 2009-09-24
Millennial Faculty Are Coming. Are You Ready? on 2009-08-02
10 Golden Rules of Social Media on 2009-08-02
Alabama Physician Chosen as Surgeon General - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-07-29
The 'Big Food' Era: Critics Call the Mother Teresa of the South a Fatso | Richmond Times-Dispatch on 2009-07-29
Does Anybody Still Use Second Life? And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today? on 2009-07-08
Txting away ur education - Opinion - USATODAY.com on 2009-06-25
- - Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-25
    
    Critical thinking, deep learning, modeling, engagement, games - Teaching is the art of using what inspires us to create an awareness in our students of something missing and an interest in exploring that content. Again in the P-20 spectrum the audience ranges from completely captive (compulsory education) to precisely, competitively selected (admission only).
- school officials will do what they should have done back in September: Take possession of all the iPods and cellphones.
  - Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-25
    
    Poor choice. Digital natives engage through their tools in ways not necesarily recognizable to educators more suspicious of technology. If 'object-oriented soicality' is real using the tools in formal settings may not always be plain rudenss. Sigh. Transformative learning.
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- - Most kids are such pros that they can text while the phone is in their pocket, a purse or under the desk, while maintaining eye contact with the teacher.
    Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-25
    
    Epitmoe of rudeness? To some extent a culture clash that educators must begin addressing differently to succeed. In the P-20 spectrum of learning solutions will vary. When acceptance and respect genuinely established in a learning environment / institution teachers and students will be able to successfully incorporate presence/use of media appliances. Maybe... I hope ...
  - For my students, rethinking what they wrote and hammering out second or third drafts is beyond all but a handful. In fact, texting has a language all its own, with its own abbreviations and terse messages, all of which hardly translates into good writing.
  - Math and science teachers at my school see the same, with kids wanting the quick answers instead of going through the struggle that will help them understand what is behind the mathematical or scientific principles involved.
  - "We have fallen into bad habits with all the new technology," Jackson says, "but we can push back on the distractions, control those habits.
    Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-25
    
    It can feel as though we are all being herded into an ADD society. However, educators are trained in classroom management not to be authorized classroom bullies but to shepherd learners towards growth. cf http://bit.ly/aF43W
  - Or maybe I'm just being presumptuous
    Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-25
    
    Thank you Mr. Welsh for thoughtfully sharing your perspective. While I disagree with it I fully appreciate your experience validates the reality that learning requires effective mental triage. Such is a skill students need to learn. When the recreational aspects of mobile appliances are the primary focus of educators, we can easily forget the lessons of 20th C pedagogy. Since we want to engage and to promote the value of lifelong learning, we can't unilateraly ban 'new' or 'disruptive' technology. The omnipresence and oppresive challenges they pose are our teachable moments. I too am seeking how to co-exist with iPhones, cellphones, Netbooks etc. with good cheer and good outcomes.
What LinkedIn's Reorganization and OFA 2.0 Means for Politech Online | Advomatic - Drupal Development, Hosting, and Consulting on 2009-06-22
- Good social networks are not the most personal networks - if it were, Friendster would still rule
object-centered nature of social networks « Taming the spaces on 2009-06-22
- use of the term ’social network’
- Albert Laszlo-Barabasi and Mark Buchanan
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- - Clay Shirky
  - definition of the social network as ‘a map of the relationships between individuals.’
  - alternative approach to social networks here, which I call ‘object centered sociality’ following the sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina
    Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-22
    
    I think tihane is saying - social networking is communication via an object thereby sociality and not true relationship building? What do others think?
  - ole of practice and practices in human activity
  - Two persons watching the same event are brought into a “state of intersubjectivity” by their experience evidently changing in similar ways, in response to what unfolds.
Ray Bradbury rides out in defence of libraries | Books | guardian.co.uk on 2009-06-22
- Bradbury is vehemently anti-internet – it's "a big distraction ... It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere," he told the Times – he is very much pro-library.
  - Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-22
    
    As a Librarian grateful he is a supporter, as an educator saddened he is so anti-Internet. In the Middle Ages the printing press was viewed as a threat to stability since the uneducated masses were not wise enough to individually interpret written works. Once upon a time libraries were all closed stacks and only available to those who could afford subscriptions or personal referrals from the moneyed class.
- That library educated me, not the college
  - Marlene G. Forney on 2009-06-22
    
    The Internet is today helping educate many who don't have physical access to tangible /hard copy teaching resources (books, journals, etc.). Precisely because the Internet is 'in the air' it is available to many otherwise 'disenfranchised' - the poor, the banned, the unwashed masses.