Mark Bauerlein complained at WSJ.com that “Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues.” It has something to do with all the time they spend, according to Nielson Mobile, sending and receiving an individual average of maybe 1,742 or 2,272 mobile text messages per month. And what’s supposed to be bad about that? Bauerlein’s concern is that “much of [...]
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Yesterday I noticed a couple of announcements for London social media events in the fall: a Twitter 101 TechAlliance Breakfast Club on October 14 starring @billdeys, @ericablonde, and @titusferguson a social media [un]conference for the arts community promoted by @adamcaplan, @titusferguson, and @billdeys (from what I understand at this early stage — let me know if I [...]
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by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
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Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
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My work on the LdnBeta thing really exemplifies my “learning is personal, knowledge is social” mantra. I’ve been putting an awful lot of time into it — which would seem to be a great personal loss — but it’s gratifying be stretched a little. As per Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory it’s great (for a change) to have Direct [...]
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Are conventional ideas about education actually counterproductive? Does advocacy based on those ideas set back the cause in the long run? The Globe and Mail ran an op-ed about education on Monday that got me on the subject. “Creating a culture of learning” addresses the problem of school dropouts, citing the success of Chinese immigrants [...]
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If I wasn’t turning 31 in a few weeks I might be inclined to say, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Actually, come to think of it, don’t trust me — don’t trust anyone under 30 either — because everybody is wrong sometimes, and everything is wrong eventually. Fortunately we don’t have to trust people and [...]
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… has to be laid on a robust background of sensible, generative dialogue. I don’t just mean “peace talks,” but rather a wider, deeper understanding of societies and how they interact.
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by Brian on 12-26-2008
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That’s my proverbial t-shirt slogan for the new year. It’s a prediction for what 2009 will represent in historical terms, as well as a personal mantra. As a prediction it’s by no means original, but I think most people don’t appreciate either the tremendous volume of changes we’re about to experience or how the changes will become manifest. We might say something [...]
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I tried tackling this on the weekend, spent all day Sunday and ended up with a 2000 word manure pile of pretentiousness. I even disgusted myself — not that what I was saying was at all wrong, but in that form it was just way too obvious that I think very highly of myself: making grand pronouncements [...]
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