Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-15

  • "the leading capitalist economies have failed to price public goods such as clean air and water effectively" http://t.co/Zqij7C9i #occupy #
  • Just got my review copy of "Corpora and Language Education" – can't wait! http://t.co/TXeeDhha #eltchat #ellchat #corpus #linguistics #
  • I'm starting to loose my confidence in @ASUS Webstorage. Poor interface, slow web service, confusing messages. This is my data! #edtech #
  • They say history is written by the winners. But it's really written by people who write history books. Nobody's a winner for ever. #
  • Frustrated philosophers are a sad sight. If only we had more power, they complain. Thank God, you don't, say I. http://t.co/bsq1otOj #stw #
  • Professional competence is just as much social as cognitive. Professional standards pretend otherwise to the detriment of professionalism. #
  • @USMCShrink The solution is in complex systems of apprenticeships & professional development-what we have now-we just need to acknowledge it in reply to USMCShrink #
  • What would happen to society if we just assigned results on standardized tests randomly at every stage of schooling? #
  • @USMCShrink The problem is that professional competence is too broad and deep to test well and standardize. in reply to USMCShrink #
  • @USMCShrink There's a place for skills/knowledge tests. But the ones you mention are always backed up by apprenticeships unlike SATs, etc. in reply to USMCShrink #
  • @USMCShrink So in effect we have exams preparing people for other exams. Learning something useful is at best a side effect. in reply to USMCShrink #
  • If there ever was a 12-step program for policy makers, it should adopt the Serenity Prayer as its mantra! http://t.co/1qQQhPog #edchat #
  • Slides from Berlin 9 Open Access Conference 2011 finally available online http://t.co/yNkW3wCm < compulsory reading #openaccess #edchat #
  • just earned the Great Listener in Probability on http://t.co/PPbgtZnM via @khanacademy #
  • The CUNY Academic Commons Announces The Commons in a Box Project – a commendable work of open source and academia http://t.co/Cpw51BNO #
  • Why is anybody still surprised that standardized tests don't reflect useful knowledge or skill – only test performance! http://t.co/RTegnJBB #
  • Great summary of 2011 in #digitalhumanities #paywall #oer #vle #university #edtech #openaccess #commons http://t.co/tbrlETjs #
  • Great post on how good sales to eager managers lead to failures of technological innovation in education: http://t.co/PPIF1oqg #ukedchat #
  • "Bad copyright law enacted on the basis of flimsy, cooked statistics is not serving to enrich artists.." http://t.co/1vhwk58q (@rgesthuizen) #
  • Isn't intellectual property a form of theft. Like building a dam upstream of a river everyone drinks from and charging for drinking water. #
  • Recording of a great webinar on copyright: What's Right? An Overview of copyright and clearance guidelines http://t.co/eVHUlS17 #ukedchat #
  • "cannot force people to add design elements that don't need to be there. You can trademark design, but not simplicity." http://t.co/XcELhWB8 #
  • Beeb WebWise course on using the mouse is funny but seems hard to access without knowing how to use the mouse! http://t.co/dICPGFdI #edtech #
  • Intrigued by the InLOC project for learning outcomes and competency interoperability standards. http://t.co/U4GkApiz #edchat #edtech #
  • OER program which is saving students over 7x the university’s investment in the very first year. http://t.co/L1If1ZZ5 #
  • "print media are cheap, almost disposable approximations of digital media" http://t.co/JH4gGkOu < both profound and dangerous #
  • "Creative Commons is a toolkit for asserting our rights" < Not giving them up! http://t.co/GDptsehB #creativecommons #ukedchat #

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