Kirstentschofen's List: For the world from here

• • Common core expects kids to read at grade level, therefore they will.  Because reading texts that are too hard for you is the best way to learn to read.  Truly.  
• n order to prepare students for the complexity of college and career ready texts, each grade level requires a "step" of growth on the "staircase". Students read the central, grade appropriate text around which instruction is centered. Teachers are patient, create more time and space in the curriculum for this close and careful reading, and provide appropriate and necessary scaffolding and supports so that it is possible for students reading below grade level.

• The demand for certainty and clarity placed on creatures who recognize their own uncertainty is, in some sense, unnatural
• knowing looks less like capturing truths in books than engaging in never-settled  networks of discussion and argument. That social activity -- collaborative and  contentious, often at the same time -- is a more accurate reflection of our  condition as imperfect social creatures trying to understand a world that is too  big and too complex for even the biggest-headed expert
• • Is that true? What about things we can't and don't express in written/video forms?  I'm am sure there are different ways of knowing that are not adequately expressed through Internet 
• a direct reflection of what matters to us humans, for better or worse.
• tend to read that with which we already agree.
• • Ed hirsch argument about cultural capital 
• coping skills, norms, and procedures that enable it to deal with diversity productively
• Seeing the world as if a person with no point of view were looking at it is a weird and unnatural idea. We humans can only see things from a point of view, and we can only understand things by appropriating them into our already-existing context
• Objectivity arose to address the disconnected nature of paper.
• Now we often think that the work becomes more credible if the author is straightforward about his or her standpoint. That's the sense in which transparency is the new objectivity.
• you explain how today's data-driven science is producing knowledge - if you can call it that - that computers can understand but humans cannot.
• It's just that the understanding that results in a sudden recognition of simplicity is not sufficient for a world as big and complex as ours
• Technodeterminism is the claim that technology by itself has predictable, determinant effects on people or culture. Usually, in my opinion, the charge is a strawman argument, for the Shirky Ilk doesn't think that the effect of technology is independent of the factors that shape social and cultural reactions. Differences in culture, class, education, psychology, and personal history all affect how someone reacts to any technology. Of course. But with that limitation strongly in mind, we still need to be able to discuss how a technology is affecting a culture in general. Generalizations can be a vehicle of truth, so long as they are understood to be only generally true.
• scope it only to traditional Western knowledg
• I'm Hegelian about this: The new knowledge continues to find generalities that connect individual instances, but because the new ecosystem is hyperlinked, we can go from the generalities back to the individual cases. And those generalizations are themselves linked into a system of difference and disagreement.

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