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I love the creative process. Yet I hate it, too. Creativity is almost always a love/hate/love relationship. Via The Fish Firm II 
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Where social, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things come together will shape the future. I think the Quantified Self movement is where all these trends converge, and I believe the future will be quantified.
As personal analytics develops, it’s going to give us a whole new dimension to experiencing our lives... Via Rudolf Kabutz
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Thomas Frey is a futurist. It’s his job to predict the future by identifying emerging global trends. Via Szabolcs Kósa, Rudolf Kabutz
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As with gold or oil, data has no intrinsic value, writes Webtrends CEO Alex Yoder. Big science, which bridges the gap between knowledge and insight, is where the real value is. Read this blog post by Alex Yoder on Business Tech. Via Rudolf Kabutz
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Ten months is a long time in the world of edtech, and I've added some new tools and resources to my personal teaching toolkit, so I decided it was time to update the model and tweak it just a bit. Via Susan Oxnevad
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A great site for what's new.
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Collaboration is nothing new. We’ve been collaborating ever since Homo sapiens set foot on the planet – through families, tribes, sport and business and we’ve reaped all the accompanying benefits.
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Written and edited by Lucy Kimbell and Joe Julier, it is a resource for social innovators and entrepreneurs who want to use approaches based in design and ethno...
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Lessons from one of the world models for vibrant urban living.
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Digital Citizenship
Global Digital Citizenship is a critical element of any teaching program at any level. Our students are connected. Irrespective of the age of the student, they are wired. We are seeing devices reducing in cost, increasing in availability, and entering most classrooms and almost every school.
If you ask students a question, their first response is likely to be to “Google” it. If you go to a library for research, the students are most likely to use the computers.The digital world is a world almost universally without boundaries (Some countries do still attempt to restrict access, but these are usually the same countries that are restrictive with their people as well). Visiting, talking, chatting, and messaging are seamless, real time, and simple. The distance between two people is now measured in milliseconds rather than miles.
All of this—the speed, immediacy, accessibility, and ease of use—means that Global Digital Citizenship is paramount.
But how do we teach Global Digital Citizenship, a fluency that is critical at all levels of education?
Read more: http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2367
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES
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November 21, 2012 7:37 PM
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Here are 10 facts about human memory that you’ll never forget.
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November 20, 2012 7:37 PM
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Editor’s NoteThe power of Silicon Valley is evident in almost everything we do. But is the drastic change that technology has wrought on modern life having an effect on the world of social entrepreneurship?
Find Those Right Minds:
When you build your team, act as if the world is your oyster. Find the right person who has the talent, network, and passion to help you succeed. Talent has become a focus in Silicon Valley and cited as the primary differentiator between competitors. As business author Jim Collins says, "the Who” is what matters most. One of the reasons that talent matters most is the network that the talent represents. When you hire someone, you are also getting access to the resources they represent in their network. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are masters at this. Reid Hoffman recognized this and founded LinkedIn on this very premise.
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We recently introduced the concept of ‘Open Foresight’ as a process we’re developing to analyze complex issues in an open and collaborative way, and to raise the bar on public discourse and f...
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By now you’ve likely heard of content curation, the process of collecting and cataloging the most useful or interesting things about a topic in order to...
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According to this survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the internet has opened up a vast world of information for today’s students, yet students’ digital literacy skills have yet to catch up
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December 18, 2012 5:14 PM
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Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal.[1] It is a recursive[2] process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective, determination to reach an identical objective[by whom?][original research?]) — for example, an intriguing[improper synthesis?] endeavor[3][4] that is creative in nature[5]—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.[6] In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.[7] Collaboration is also present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common case for using the word.
Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication.[6] These methods specifically aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem solving. Forms, rubrics, charts and graphs are useful in these situations to objectively document personal traits with the goal of improving performance in current and future projects.
Since the Second World War the term "Collaboration" acquired a very negative meaning as referring to persons and groups which help a foreign occupier of their country—due to actual use by people in European countries who worked with and for the Nazi German occupiers. Linguistically, "collaboration" implies more or less equal partners who work together—which is obviously not the case when one party is an army of occupation and the other are people of the occupied country living under the power of this army.
Collaboration: A word we could all understand better http://t.co/fjwgNK3K...
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Defining the Excellent Online Instructor: http://t.co/yy8n9eiF #he #education #teachers...
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Creative leads at the three chart-topping Creative Survey consultancies tell us what creativity means to them. (Top creatives share their views on 'What is creativity?' Let's not overlook innovation!
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November 26, 2012 5:38 PM
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As teachers, we struggle with the mundane repetition of the reading process that we involve our students in given many of the current curricula that are available.
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November 23, 2012 2:47 AM
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Educators who have not taken a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) and do not understand their history, are currently writing about these courses which is causing them to be inaccurately represented in the press. The main problem is there is all the publicity around Coursera and Edx that ignores other kinds of MOOCs.
[...] "MOOCs, on the other hand, are more like fancy textbooks. They are all about the mass market and not the rich connectivity that established online courses offer their limited collection of students."
This is a gross generalization of MOOCs. I would go so far as to call the statement above "unfounded hyperbole." The first MOOC I participated in "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008" was one of the most interactive and engaging experiences in my education.
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November 23, 2012 2:46 AM
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Survey of 15,000 Quebec university students shows they’re “old school” when it comes to teaching technology.
The study was conducted by Dr. Venkatesh in partnership with Magda Fusaro, a professor in the department of management and technology at Université du Québec à Montréal. Together, they conducted a pilot project at UQAM before rolling the survey out in 2011 to a dozen universities across the province, to which 15,000 undergraduate students and more than 2,500 instructors responded (for response rates of 10 percent and 20 percent respectively).
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November 21, 2012 7:32 PM
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A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.
Great read!
Off topic but nice article. Always good to remember that it is a "process" and it's ok to go up and down through the process.