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Rapid technology change is here to stay. No sense in trying to change the way the world works–at least when you’re messing with the wallets of major corporations. 
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A carriage full of young and old Danes had their mundane daily ride transformed into a symphonic saunter when flutes, violins and clarinets brought elevator music to life and they played a short rendition of Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood (aka Peer Gynt). Get an instant dose of the warm and fuzzies as old ladies get teary, hipsters unplug themselves from their white headphones and middle aged men get carried away.
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“There’s this myth among some people that multitasking makes them more productive,” Zheng Wang, lead author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University, said in a release. “But they seem to be misperceiving the positive feelings they get from multitasking. They are not being more productive – they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work.”
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Gary Burnison considers leadership to be a privilege. Most people like the idea of leadership but few count the cost. He says, “To lead is to be all in, transparent and accessible, calm in the face of upset and even crisis, and always mindful that you are a steward of something bigger than yourself.” That’s not easy. To whom much is given much is required. That’s the part that easily trips us up.
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The Flat Classroom® Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and high school students (typically grade 9-12, 14-18 years old).Co-founded in 2006 by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (now in Beijing, China) in 2006, this project uses Web 2.0 tools to support communication and interaction as well as collaboration and creation between students and teachers from classrooms around the world. One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working isolated and alone, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom.
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In response to the rioting of Quebec students over an increase to university tuition, Visual.ly compares tuition cost by province and course type.
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Schools are word-based. The first things young students learn are the ABCs and how to read. This usually begins with a flashcard showing the letter “A” and a picture of a red delicious apple. There have always been visual reinforcements for words, especially in the formative years.
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From Melanie Pinola's Lifehacker blog: Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results.Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.
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In the world of social networks, Facebook and Twitter can be compared to the old children's story "The Tortoise and the Hare." But this race is not judged by speed but by the long-term relationship with users and their privacy.
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From The Heutagogic Archives Blog: After a conference and much discussion it was concluded that “making personal sense of information is the real inclusion issue”.
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For photographers, finding a vanishing point, or an implied vanishing point in nature or human-made environments can result in a very sharp compositional opportunity. While they are often found in long roads and tall buildings, the collection below shows that wherever they are, a good photographer can turn them into a powerful image.
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In order to understand how stress can be very detrimental to the mind of a young person it is important to have some understanding of what happens to the body when the brain triggers a stress response. It is equally important to bear in mind that full maturation of the brain does not happen until the third decade of life and as such the developing brain is far more sensitive to the chemical processes involved while mediating a stressful event.
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Call it brainstorming, concept mapping or mindmapping, collecting and organizing thoughts using web 2.0 is a snap.
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Here are some practical action-steps for developing your vision and preparing to move with it into the future.
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Howard Gardner, the founder of multiple-intelligences theory discusses the challenges ethics and education face as digital media become more prevalent.
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Here are Helen Musselwhite’s beautiful paper sculptures. Inspired by nature, her stunningly intricate layered designs draw you into a fairytale world of forests, flowers and hedgerows. Her framed pieces make beautiful wall art, but it’s her haunting sculptures in glass domes that really stick in my mind.
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From Brain Pickings another fabulous book: From the team at Tara Books, who for the past 17 years have been giving voice to marginalized art and literature through a commune of artists, writers, and designers collaborating on remarkable handmade books, comes I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail — a die-cut masterpiece two years in the making, based on a 17th-century British “trick” poem and illustrated in the signature Indian folk art style of the Gond tribe by Indian artist Ramsingh Urveti, who brought us the magnificent The Night Life of Trees.
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Nine easy ways to generate a lot of ideas is to apply a checklist of nine creative-thinking principles that were first formally suggested by Alex Osborn, pioneer of brainstorming, and later arranged into the following mnemonic SCAMPER.
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Ferrucci talks about how human beings are able to “resonate” with other human beings. He tells us that the ability is with us from birth, but if it doesn’t develop sufficiently we are in trouble. The ability can be cultivated at any time in our lives.
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A theme based presentation on how visual storytelling could be used in an educational context. Presented as part of the WOW 12 Virtual Technology Conference.
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Fom Susan Oxnead's informative blog: Google Docs is making the transition to Google Drive and with that they have recently announce some improved features for Docs users. Most notably is the addition of 60 new templates and 450 new fonts.
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As Michael Palin once put it, “there’s no getting away from the wit, wonder and wizardry of the man Cahiers du Cinéma once described as Terry Gilliam.” Those qualities are clearly visible in this very funny early film by Gilliam called The Miracle of Flight. The film was made in 1971 for the American-British TV show The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine. Complete with classic Gilliam art, animation and sound effects!
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Presenting: Art with rainbows, because rainbows are festive and they make us happy. From complicated Rube Goldberg vandal-bike-machines to minimalistic window smudges, from rainbow illusions in strung wire to… erm… pancakes, here’s a small selection rainbow-tastic art we’ve dug up for your ogling pleasure. Enjoy.
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