Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-19

Social networking online and off lucidly explained by Google UX architect http://j.mp/d8d097 #amustread #
"Much of higher education is neither higher nor education." http://j.mp/9zYVi3 #edchat #
@curtislinton "If I don't understand what it means to be white, I can't understand what it means to be black in our society." #equity101 #
RT @sinetpd360: RT @mizdiva: "Its hard to intellectually engage if you are socially alienated" Beverly Daniel Tatum #equity101 #edchat #
RT @lizditz: Luqman on dyslexia: All children can be taught to read http://bit.ly/ccv3ye #specialed #edchat #
RT @curtislinton: Is an equitable education the same as an equal education? #equity101 #edchat #
"no longer any excuse not to publish the raw data from experiments [like Hauser's on primate cognition]" http://j.mp/cH02ur #
I find evolutionary rationale for recasting Maslow's pyramid suspect. IMO it needs revision of a different kind. http://j.mp/bZgFuh #edchat #
Remember!!! "most of the relationship between neural patterns and cognitive behavior is correlational rather than causal" http://j.mp/bQrJvu #
Is this a useful metaphor? "providing children with[..]critical and creative thinking skills" http://j.mp/aYueVs #edchat #
@philosophybites I frequenly find appeals to critical thinking skills to be a covert way of imposing a particular ideology on interlocutors in reply to philosophybites #
RT @hjarche: notion that same general management skills can be used to run a bank or public utility are flawed #MBA thinking @poitrasCBC #
@tomwhitby @victorhugor Agree on irrelevance of learning styles but here's an intriguing alternative view: http://j.mp/aVHTn4 #edchat in reply to tomwhitby #
As innovators we often ask others to be open to change but are we open enough to stability? #edchat #edtech #
RT @geloomis: People…may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said but they will always remember how you made them feel #edchat #
Ideal education system should pay teachers well enough not to have to rely on the good will & passion of few but demand them of all. #edchat #
Teachers should be mentored and coached in advocating for their students, themselves and their peers. #edchat #
@theteachinggame I taught webdesign to 16yr olds in 08. Found them to be timid w new tech simply using what their friends did. #edchat in reply to theteachinggame #
@web20classroom @kylepace I find my best teaching moments are improvisations around a careful and detailed plan. (Like jazz solos.) #edchat #
Teachers should learn the personal & group consequences of exclusion. Possible through simulation gaming like http://j.mp/bYXII1 #edchat #
@web20classroom @kylepace I find my best teaching moments are improvisations around a careful and detailed plan. in reply to web20classroom #
Teachers should be told: Digital natives is a bogus concept. If you want, you can be as good at tech as your students even in 60s. #edchat #
What should be on every teacher's reading list? My vote: "Manufactured crisis" by Berliner & Biddle #edchat #teachread #
Anon qte: "Two kinds of teachers of 20yrs: 1. 20 years of teaching experience. 2. 1 year of teaching experience repeated 20 times." #edchat #
Teachers need to learn to constantly expose their personal experience to external expert knowledge and vice versa. #edchat #
Do we need to differentiate creativity, attitude etc. from skills in this debate? Ie what teachers can be trained in. #edchat #
True for all decisions not just teacher evaluation: 'it’s better to be “data-informed” than “data-driven.”' http://j.mp/aRYxaR #edchat #
RT @EdOptionsInc: What are the essential skills needed by today's teacher and how do we accomplish that? #EdChat in 30 minutes! #
"'Large scale', top down project [management] approach fails spectacularly. All the time." http://slidesha.re/6wbBP3 #
The only sensible market-driven reform in education? Double teacher salaries, halve classroom sizes. #edchat #
This metaphor is literally insane: "Publishing this data [is] going to create a more market-driven approach to results." http://j.mp/aOCeuQ #
This kind of pseudoaccountability in education is a good example of the danger of unreliable decontextualized data. http://j.mp/aOCeuQ #
@mbcampbell360 Often innovation in edu is used as pretext 4 costcutting. I can see sb saying let students learn by failure w fewer teachers. in reply to mbcampbell360 #
@amcunningham Thanks for the mention and for keeping the Twitterverse up to speed on research practices in medicine & more. in reply to amcunningham #
Failure is an important part of growth but this should not become an excuse for a lack of resources. #edchat #
Evidence, as if we needed it, that English professors can be complete ignoramuses when it comes to linguistics. http://j.mp/cgHCXu #
How long is Ning going to be around with competitors running on #FOSS like Drupal Commons, BuddyPress, Oxwall, Elgg, Mahara, et al. #edtech #
@edenskills We shouldn't be starting from scratch when talking about internet & society. These aren't new arguments & we have data & theory. in reply to edenskills #
@edenskills Adler is probably relevant. I was thinking more of the critique of Chicago school's work on urban disorganization. in reply to edenskills #
No and no: "do we have a stronger sense of self nowadays or are we too reliant on our networks, connections to others" http://j.mp/d6DSR3 #
Plea for evidence-based proclamations on language: "Language has a way of turning pundits into fools" http://j.mp/9wP3CX #
On TED as university: "I do have an issue with commentators reducing education to watching TV" http://j.mp/aC9Lo2 #
My Twifficiency score is 46%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/ #
"Medical research is obsessed with internal validity" reducing relevance to practitioners. http://j.mp/cotZaP > Same in education #edchat #
Trying to make a decision between OJS (Open Journal System) and Drupal's eJournal module. Any other options? #digitalhumanities #thatcamp #
Cannot agree more w @tomwhitby "There are no natives or immigrants. There are only people who learn differently." http://j.mp/9EwFse #edchat #
RT @words_book: Preparing Reading Professionals, 2nd Edition-by Rita M. Bean et al.-International Reading Association. http://bit.ly/a52G0R #
More nonsense about language & the internet this time courtesy of the BBC. Few new words don't mean language change! http://j.mp/c58paq #
We cannot assess the difference the internet has made by describing the world today and subtracting the internet. http://j.mp/aylOnY #
Amazing how willing commentators are to compare two things without knowing much of anything about one or both of them. http://j.mp/aylOnY #
RT @literacyadviser: New Blog Post: Amble GPX – Developing Literacy Skills Through Exciting Community Project http://bit.ly/fUgdG #
@ernestopriego Learning things like Twettiqette is like learning a foreign language. Some people do best by osmosis others by explanation. in reply to ernestopriego #
@ernestopriego Common sense is only common because people share it. Online howto guides help newcomers join in our common sense. #edtech in reply to ernestopriego #
Guide to Twitter for PLN. I'll be sharing this with all teachers I work with. http://j.mp/bW6BbT via @tombarrett @kylepace @NMHS_Principal #
And all education… RT @Braddo: Good argument: ePortfolios & Learning Management Systems – Setting our default to social http://j.mp/cpWhLk #
RT @Sphilosophy: Philosophy is a religion that has Reason as it's god and is constantly adding books to it's bible #philbitescomp #
Great material for your next English lesson – first or second language http://ow.ly/1qNCdu #ellchat #
Has PayPal earned enough of our trust to turn over a whole internet micropayment infrastructure to them? http://j.mp/biHEsQ #
I've been using Drop.io for sharing class notes since 2008. Highly recommend @sccenglish's guide: http://j.mp/drPn2L #edtech #ellchat #
Ehm. RealPlayer? Common doesn't mean open! > "Open standards have always been part of the BBC's DNA." http://j.mp/aeIFqD #
@tomscott's warning stickers should be part of any critical (news) reading class: http://j.mp/aU2ZNq #edchat #ellchat (via @techcrunch) #
RT @lauras: Open source givers and takers – O'Reilly Radar http://oreil.ly/deNmmI #opensource #
RT @tomwhitby: Observation: Interesting how many people I started out with on Twitter about 1.5 yrs ago, have become EDU Thought leaders. #
Love the idea of a hacker camp for kids. Wish there was more on hacker ethic on the curriculum. http://j.mp/bmOkUn #
RT @KuraFire: What's a good metaphor for a video game series losing its edge? E.g. “Damn, Star Ocean 4 totally went Wing Commander on us.” #
Discuss: "Not a single person on the Wright brothers' team had a college education, not even Orville or Wilbur." http://j.mp/cZHmEe #edchat #
Why are passives so hard fire native speakers to learn to identify? I've seen EFL teachers get this wrong. http://ow.ly/1qNCdW #ellchat #
Why the fuss over Google Voice Actions? I dictate an SMS but still have to press send or choose from options. Why not voice commands there? #

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