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OTF-MindsOnMedia Summer Conference - Shadi Yazdan
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Dusty World: A Thin & Fragile Pretense
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Monday, 27 July 2015. A Thin and Fragile Pretense. I'm still mulling my way through The World Beyond Your Head. By Matt Crawford. It's a slow go because I'm re-reading and thinking over what I'm looking at, often paragraph by paragraph. On page 153-4 Crawford is talking about the way in which we depend on established values when transacting with each other. He is talking about how he bills his motorcycle repairs, but I found a surprising correlation between this and my current views on grading:. It alway...
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Dusty World: March 2015
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Sunday, 15 March 2015. Which Digital Overlord Do you Bow To? I'm pretty handy when it comes to technology, but the past week has really underlined for. Me just how proprietary digital technology has become. In the past seven days I've had to root my phone and I'm still struggling to free the magazines I have purchased from the clutches of Apple. I'm just over two years into a three year contract with Telus. Last year Samsung decided that my Galaxy Note2. Why would Samsung do this? It's been two years, it...
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Dusty World: August 2014
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014. Do What You're Paid For: the distance between the mediocrity of work and the goals of education. The majority seem to follow the science. Had an interesting poll today. The American Academy of Pediatrics. Suggested that later start times for adolescents would allow them to function better with their funky circadian rhythms. The comments on this poll. Some pretty nasty assumptions in these acerbic comments. There are jobs and companies that do embrace excellence, but they are a ...
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Dusty World: The New Efficiency
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Monday, 22 June 2015. This African proverb passed me on the. Internet last week, and left me thinking. Last semester I had an energetic grade 9 suddenly stop his interaction with the internet and wonder out loud (and it was asked in all seriousness): "why is it in video games and movies old people are so cool, with hidden knowledge and special powers, but in real life they just suck? He received an avalanche of 'how could you say that? What role does age and experience have in the information age? Once a...
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Dusty World: December 2014
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Sunday, 14 December 2014. The Tyranny of Collaboration. I thought it interesting that the Millennial mind assumes collaboration, infecting her own generation's constant interaction across history. A smart, capable digital native can't conceive of a single mind being capable of producing great works, they must be the result of never ending communication and collaboration. A couple of centuries from now people who have been immersed in digital communications for generations will wander around The Van G...
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Dusty World: Cheaper Teachers for a Cheaper World
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Friday, 22 May 2015. Cheaper Teachers for a Cheaper World. I'm reading The World Beyond Your Head. The latest from Shopclass As Soulcraft. Writer Matt Crawford. In this chapter he's been working out how experts manipulate their environment in order to. Learning spaces someone who has never taught might get a glimpse into the complexity of the craft. The idea that experts manipulate the space around them is something that many people might intuitively understand without thinking through the why. With ...
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Dusty World: July 2014
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Monday, 28 July 2014. Bending People to the Data. The idea of data driven learning has become very popular. This isn't surprising since data is beginning to drive everything. Where it becomes problematic is when data is manipulated for its own sake rather than for an intended purpose. It's a complex series of events that have led us to this point. We're living in an age of data where we are recording much of it for the first time. Since it is so much easier to record and share data we're tempted to struc...
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Dusty World: July 2015
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Monday, 27 July 2015. A Thin and Fragile Pretense. I'm still mulling my way through The World Beyond Your Head. By Matt Crawford. It's a slow go because I'm re-reading and thinking over what I'm looking at, often paragraph by paragraph. On page 153-4 Crawford is talking about the way in which we depend on established values when transacting with each other. He is talking about how he bills his motorcycle repairs, but I found a surprising correlation between this and my current views on grading:. It alway...
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Dusty World: April 2015
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Friday, 24 April 2015. Neurology: Is it the car, or the car and driver? We had board PD today ( a 3 hour lecture. It was a presentation on neurology in learning and layered curriculum by Kathie Nunley. I'm generally a fan of a nuanced scientific approach to human activity (as opposed to a simplistic approach to things that usually support buying something). Dr. Nunley's neurological approach to education offered a number of insights to what we're doing wrong. An analogy immediately came to mind. Is n...
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