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The elite schools will get better and better and the state schools will get more standardized and commodified, more reliably mediocre. Actually, that’s an optimistic scenario. If we check out secondary education, we can see that the elite high schools are better than ever, while most high schools are pretty much warehouses for teenagers. Those two kinds of high schools will pretty predictably feed those two kinds of colleges. And nobody with eyes to see trusts assessment rubrics to guarantee quality control.
MOOCS and the Stratification of American Higher Education | Rightly Understood | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)
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Posted at 10:40am
 
coolcatteacher: everyfiredies: afternoonsnoozebutton: Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document.  My students will loooooove this! Great tip. High-res

coolcatteacher:

everyfiredies:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document. 

My students will loooooove this!

Great tip.

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Posted at 10:33am
 

The Pulse: Being stalked - by cookies

“So what you’ve touched on is a nerve that if you follow it through, it courses through the entire body of the Web, and it’s a very interesting thing, but only the tip, only really one nerve, in a huge and expanding organism that is being created.”

Posted at 9:43am
 
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Technology is culture; it is not something separate; it is no longer “I.T.”; we cannot choose to have it or not. It just is, like air.

Dan Hill, On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead

I love the ‘technology just is, like air’ concept. Brings to mind the notion that fish don’t see the water they swim in. We have reached a turning point where tech is so deeply embedded in our culture, like language, clothing, and buildings before it, that its role is as central as those, and now perhaps more so.

(via stoweboyd)
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Posted at 11:14pm
 
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The disorientation everyone blames on “information overload” may in fact have less to do with the amount of data we are being asked to process than the number of simultaneous people we are being asked to be
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/turtles-from-the-shells/ (via nathanjurgenson)
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Posted at 11:07pm
 
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The truth is, web culture is far more attached to the free flow of information than notions of individualism. The web is founded on interdependence, innovation, and discovery. These are the values that ignite the passions of those who create (and control) the World Wide Web. Civil liberties are a concern, but don’t trigger the same sense of urgency. Privacy, ownership, sovereignty, expression, and choice, will all be overshadowed by transparency, sharing, global citizenship, and wisdom.
Why There’s No Mass Protest Over Government Surveillance | TechCrunch (via infoneer-pulse)
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Posted at 11:04pm
 
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

Actually, there is a perfume now that was inspired by the smell of books.  It’s called Paper Passion.

(via lunaontherun)

(Source: storyseldomtold)

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Posted at 6:02pm
 
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You have to make stuff. The tools of journalism are in your hands and no one is going to give a damn about what is on your resume, they want to see what you have made with your own little fingies. Can you use Final Cut Pro? Have you created an Instagram that is about something besides a picture of your cat every time she rolls over? Is HTML 5 a foreign language to you? Is your social media presence dominated by a picture of your beer bong, or is it an RSS of interesting stuff that you add insight to? People who are doing hires will have great visibility into what you can actually do, what you care about and how you can express on any number of platforms.
David Carr, media columnist for the New York Times, via yesterday’s Reddit IAmA. (via futurejournalismproject)
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What do we do if and when our old mechanisms for coping with inequality break down? If the “endowment of human capital” with which people are born gets less and less valuable, we’ll get closer and closer to that Econ 101 example of a world in which the capital owners get everything. A society with cheap robot labor would be an incredibly prosperous one, but we will need to find some way for the vast majority of human beings to share in that prosperity, or we risk the kinds of dystopian outcomes that now exist only in science fiction.
The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots - Noah Smith - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
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Posted at 5:51pm
 
nevver: Vonnegut’s eight rules for great writing: Find a Subject You Care About Do Not Ramble, Though Keep It Simple Have the Guts to Cut Sound like Yourself Say What You Mean to Say Pity the Readers For Really Detailed Advice (read “Elements of Style”) more

nevver:

Vonnegut’s eight rules for great writing:

  1. Find a Subject You Care About
  2. Do Not Ramble, Though
  3. Keep It Simple
  4. Have the Guts to Cut
  5. Sound like Yourself
  6. Say What You Mean to Say
  7. Pity the Readers
  8. For Really Detailed Advice (read “Elements of Style”)
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Posted at 5:45pm

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