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24 Oct 09

The Way We Live Now - Going Offline in Search of Freedom - NYTimes.com

  • this mass-erosion of our self-control was inevitable, as the instrument of our productivity merged with that of our distraction
  • Those mythical bird-women (look it up) didn’t seduce with beauty or carnality — not with petty diversions — but with the promise of unending knowledge. “Over all the generous earth we know everything that happens,” they crooned to passing ships, vowing that any sailor who heeded their voices would emerge a “wiser man.” That is precisely the draw of the Internet.
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23 Oct 09

Which came first, video game addiction or ADD? | Health Tech - CNET News

  • Is the propensity to play video games several hours a day the cause, or the effect, of proactive attention issues?
10 Sep 09

Essay: The Power of Pull - The Steve Rubel Lifestream

  • engage and reach people multiple times across different sources.
  • consumers will trust what we have to say.
02 Sep 09

eLearn: Opinions - Things That Can't Be Taught

  • Attempting to teach anything through short situational descriptions followed by multiple choice answers is just dumb.
13 Aug 09

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company

  • "The advent of the Web brings the ability to disseminate high-quality materials at almost no cost, leveling the playing field," says Cathy Casserly, a senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who in her former role at the Hewlett Foundation provided seed funding for MIT's project. "We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge."
  • coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education
09 Aug 09

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • Focus is a paradox—it has distraction built into it. The two are symbiotic; they’re the systole and diastole of consciousness.
  • Attention Surfeit Hypoactivity Disorder.

The Age of Composition | The Thinking Stick

  • I’ve learned more about English, grammar, wording, etc in the past four years of blogging than I ever did in 20 years of schooling (through MS degree). The only question I have left is, why?
  • once you understand that it’s about the ideas and conveying a message, the mechanics come second.
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07 Aug 09

Digital Literacy vs Networked Literacy | The Thinking Stick

  • Networked literacy is what the web is about. It’s about understanding how people and communication networks work. It’s the understanding of how to find information and how to be found. It’s about how to read hyperlinked text articles, and understand the connections that are made when you become “friends” or “follow” someone on a network. It’s the understanding of how to stay safe and how to use the networked knowledge that is the World Wide Web. Networked Literacy is about understanding connections.
07 Jun 09

With Shaquille O'Neal its leader, Twitter is changing sports - The Bonus - SI.com

  • He decided to give the mani-pedi a shot, but when Love walked out of the salon after the softening, the cameras from TMZ, the celebrity gossip outfit, were waiting to give him hell. "Yeah, my followers basically got me busted," Love said.

With Shaquille O'Neal its leader, Twitter is changing sports - The Bonus - SI.com

  • Twitter satisfies fans' thirst for a closer connection to big-time athletes, many of whom are overpackaged and overmanaged
  • peels back the curtain on an athlete's existence, showcasing personality layers never seen at press conferences. When athletes share details of their most mundane tasks, joys and frustrations, fans are fascinated.
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14 May 09

42 Million U.S. Women Use Social Media: Blogs Most Influential | Small Business Trends

  • those who blog are more likely to be tech savvy, on the leading edge of trends, and invest time searching for new products online. Those who participate in social networking sites like Facebook are motivated to spend time there more as a matter of staying in touch with family and friends.
  • Women are more likely to go to social networks for beauty, entertainment and dating advice. But for the majority of other categories they look to blogs.
02 May 09

Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog

  • But so long as they retain the ability to point to whatever you want on the web, we can sidestep the bear-traps and use the system as a mere shell, linking to wherever we want and having our students use more open methods of learning. That way, even if a system is mandated, we can completely subvert the process and retain the freedom to teach the way we want.
  • What’s out there on the web is not only more open, it’s more creative and can motivate students to higher levels of achievement.

Students as 'Free Agent Learners' : April 2009 : THE Journal

  • the emergence of the student as a "free agent learner": Students want more control over their own learning experiences through technology and want to define their own educational destinies and determine the direction of their learning.
01 May 09

BBC NEWS | Technology | Norway tests laptop exam scheme

  • Although Norway has used computers for exams before now, Ms Helland said the decision to move to laptops was taken to ensure that, in the exam hall, students used equipment with which they were familiar.
  • Although students could turn to spellcheckers to help proofread their answers, the use of anything more sophisticated was banned, said Mr Ronning.
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30 Apr 09

Micro Persuasion: The Next Twitter or Facebook is the Open Web

  • Marketers need to really embrace the fact that it's peers and their data, rather than brand, that will become the primary way we make decisions. The greatest rewards will go to those who embrace and participate in as many communities as they possibly can in credible ways.
28 Apr 09

Wake up, social media users, we're crushing our creation

  • The promise, of course, is in the traffic. Twitter is the 23rd most visited website in Canada. It and the rest of social media are always boasting new features, new content and new users.


    Investors are banking on the fact that it will be impossible to untangle the influence of user-generated web content on life as we know it. But, hey, somebody has to pay the bills.

  • The irony is that as more people climb aboard, to tell the world their life stories in a photo gallery or in 140 characters or less, the romance and democracy begins to fade.


    With the burden of content, the true cost of this gaggle of free services is becoming more apparent.


    If our cherished social media is to survive, it will do so at the cost of our patience and our privacy.

Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline

  • responsibility to teach students about Twitter because social media knowledge is becoming essential to their future fields - communications, advertising, public relations and marketing.
    • Good point! - on 2009-04-28
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22 Apr 09

Weblogg-ed » New Reading, New Writing

  • Those of us who are mucking around in these new reading and writing spaces have no formal training in it, obviously, just a passion to connect and a willingness to experiment and engage in conversations around the the topics that interest us. But there are skills here that if developed with some intention (read: taught and modeled) can improve literacy in interacting with texts and people in these digital spaces. As always, however, we have to begin to see this shifts as natural progressions in the evolution of reading and writing
23 Mar 09

Research Status: The Future of the Social Web, Social Media In A Recession

  • We found that a majority of marketers that we surveyed will increase their spend on social media marketing –even in the face of a recession. This is tremendous news for the social media space as it’s one of the few markets in the world that are increasing
12 Apr 08

Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?

  • Diigo basically enables people to study and research as one would in a library – by taking pertinent pieces of the knowledge puzzle and putting them where they are accessible, functional and more easily utilized. - joanvinallcox on 2008-04-12
  • Diigo basically enables people to study and research as one would in a library – by taking pertinent pieces of the knowledge puzzle and putting them where they are accessible, functional and more easily utilized.
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