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Craig Newmark finds his way to Edmund Tufte

I like it when minds I admire find each other.

I'm enjoying how frequently the following image has shown up in tweets, tumblr pages etc, and have jumped on the memewagon by making it my desktop image: http://markandrewgoetz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tufte-wallpaper.png

The point is not, of course, that PowerPoint is truly evil - there is enough of... read more

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“Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely”

Somehow, it’s easy to intuit that the phrase has a lot of truth in it, without knowing why.

Yesterday or so, I credited David Weinberger for that, understandably since he consistently offers great insights regarding media and related matters.

However, people cited the real source, and article by Edmund Tufte, a major expert in user experience, PowerPoint Is Evil

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Turning Education Up to 11?

Amplify + education = ?

How would that work? To the extent that Amplify combines social bookmarking and annotation or commentary, on the one hand, and blogging (micro-, midi-, and now full-blown) on the other, it replicates or parallels tools I already use in and out of the classroom - diigo, blogs, and twitter (read more here).  It also plays well with those other tools - I was particularly grateful when the team added diigo to the integrated services.

The question for me is whether there is added value in combining elements of these things in one platform in a formal educational context.

Informally, I learn from Amplify every day. I am clearly an active and enthusiastic user. Can and should that transfer in some formal way to my role as educator? I’ll be thinking about it, experimenting a bit, probably. And reporting back in this space. In the meantime, I would welcome input from educators, learners, researchers, and everyone else, with ideas on what Amplify can do for education.

Doh - John Sheehan demonstrates foot-in-mouth syndrome

Great photo with this article - he’s facepalming so we don’t have to.

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John Sheehan

A senior US officer and former Nato commander sparked outrage in the Netherlands today by declaring that gay soldiers in the Dutch military were one of the reasons for the Srebrenica massacre, the worst act of mass murder in Europe committed since the second world war.

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Future history of present bigotries

Newversenews can usually be counted on for gloom and doom… Head over there to read the whole thing. Rasma’s bio is pretty interesting.

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STICKS & STONES WILL MAKE A WAR & NAMES WILL ALWAYS HURT ME

by Rasma Haidri
I can see them now
my children’s grandchildren’s children
their heads bowed over history books
(or screens or holograms or whatever
the state-of-the-art futurorama schoolroom will offer)
scoffing at what they read:
that a cartoon drawing started it all
first in a Danish newspaper
then copycatted in a Norwegian one
then again in a Swedish one
(nah nah boo boo
we’ll draw Mohammed
as a pig or a dog or a bomb if we want to
freedom of speech, of the press
and you can’t do us do-do)

They will shake their heads at us
the way we shook ours at our own grandparents
who did nothing to stop Hitler
You may well shake your heads over what you read
that we did nothing
as fear grew and festered all around
that it started with a cartoon
and the rest was historyRead more at newversenews.blogspot.com
 

Being Counted

That ‘Other’ box is going to be used a lot this cenus, in sha’ allah - Arab Americans and Persian Americans (http://edwebb.amplify.com/2010/03/11/why-there-are-zero-iranian-americans-funny-psa/) want to be counted. I wonder if Turkish Americans are doing the same?

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Publish, don’t perish

via @cogdog @gsiemens @jconnell (and others - this has gone viral) - publisher’s view on publishing, nicely done.

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Nuns Snub Bishops

You don’t want to mess with these women.

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Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion.

Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns Wednesday sent lawmakers a letter urging them to pass the Senate health care bill. It contains restrictions on abortion funding that the bishops say don’t go far enough.

The letter says that “despite false claims to the contrary, the Senate bill will not provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions.” The letter says the legislation also will help support pregnant women and “this is the real pro-life stance.”

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Messin’ with Texas through open resources?

The fifteen elected members of the Texas Board of Education have disproportionate influence over K-12 education in the United States because of market effects - Texas buys textbooks en bloc, so publishers tailor their books to meet Texas standards. Given the Board's alarming revisionist leanings in history and social studies, among others (see http://www.nytimes.... read more

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I’d love to see a textbook counter-movement where a superior core curriculum is posted online — free for anyone to use. The texts could then be more specific and in-depth and actually, you know, good. I think today’s youth are ready for it.Read more at gawker.com
 

Do George & Dave’s Work For Them: Future of Education

Go go go! I’m leaning toward an opera, but may settle for a drawing.

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What is the future of education? A request for help

Dave Cormier and I are offering an open course on the Future(s) of Education, starting in April. Dave has an introduction based on a workshop he is running in Singapore next week. I’ve co-taught courses with Dave in the past and while we irritate each other, he has a keen, critical, and creative mind. Which means it’s always a great experience for me.

We need your help, according to the Levine/Norman playbook of getting others to do your work for you. Could you post a video/drawing/audio recording/dance routine/cave drawing/clay pot that represents your vision of the future of education?

Please tag your contribution with #edfuture and let Dave and I know via Twitter (Dave=@cormier, George=@gsiemens) or drop a link in the comments here.

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Maps and plans

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