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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. -
James Andrews
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Cam Newton Allegations Complicate Heisman Trophy Voting
“#Newton is likely #Heisman winner, but voters are watching allegations closely: http://nyti.ms/ajID4l”
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beardeview
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Social Shopping Site Fashism Gets Cash
The hardest part of any shopping spree — other than handing over your credit card — is figuring out whether or not that vintage fringe leather jacket is a flattering addition to your fall collection.This is ready to wear clothing. Editing rather than creation.
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Malbonnington
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Fast Times at Woodside High
“A video about 'Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction', from NYT - Fast Times at Woodside High http://nyti.ms/aQqPCp”Video watched. The message is plain. The curriculum does not fit these kids lives. NYC solved it with specialized High Schools in the thirties. The "One size fits all" HS education is a product of the Baby Boom strain on the education system. What do you teach an unemployable? Haven't we done them enough damage?The exit from gaming is cheating. Teach them to cheat and they become IT addicts. Highly employable. The exit from social butterfly is journalism. The exit from film making is technical production. and script writing. Always use more of those and the entry is not impossible. Crafts will get one to the cameras. Desire will get one to the front of them from there. An overnight success thirty years later.The kids are just fine. The curriculum is broken.
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phylogenomics
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Argentina’s Napa Valley
“Nice NYTimes article on Mendoza - Argentina’s Napa Valley; my wife's hometown; #fb http://nyti.ms/cYQKYP”I would happily visit. Would you prefer a wheelbarrow or a wheel chair. We will require an ambulette of some kind. maybe an rv.It is all wine and I will not be able to stop you. With luck you won't drive.
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Scott Brinker
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Teaching for America
“Teaching for America - http://nyti.ms/dp5tJa -- this should be our #1 priority”It is real simple.
Pay good wages.Buy the incompetent out.Collect the taxes to pay for it.
Thomas Friedman recommends none of these things.
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Stephanie Allen
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Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album
“Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album - http://nyti.ms/9bzZVE”The off switch is available.When he writes it in convincing form I will read it.
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Could She Reach the Top in 2012? You Betcha
Sarah Palin’s amateurism and liabilities are her badges of honor, and Republican leaders who want to stop her, and they are legion, are utterly baffled about how to do so.
The top of what? Prosecute Rupert Murdock for the corrupt dramatist he is. -
Teaching for America
Nation-building in the classroom: Arne Duncan’s push to find the next generation of teachers.
Offer money.
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Hiding From Reality
“Hiding From Reality - http://nyti.ms/dbdESE more evidence of America the banana republic. Do we care about anything?”
The rich are in the process of abandoning the rest of us.Good riddance. I wish them the best of British luck.
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JonathanEMartin
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As E-Books Gain, Barnes & Noble Tries to Stay Ahead
“As E-Books Gain, Barnes & Noble Tries to Stay Ahead - http://nyti.ms/cSlafn”Would changing the copyright laws so that text in e-format is public domain do the trick? Less draconian would be text that is not readable in the published form becomes public domain.
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wstites
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Ireland Asks for Aid From Europe, Minister Says
“#Ireland Asks for Aid From Europe, Minister Says - http://nyti.ms/b5Pzb6 @irishstudies”Message received.
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bfbrennan
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Black Friday Will Start in October, Stores Say
“Black Friday Will Start in October, Stores Say - http://nyti.ms/drwVxL Do you buy only 'on sale' items?”No. Retail will go bankrupt soon enough. I buy a lot of remainders and other surplus. The prices are better. No sign of black Friday yet.There is no cash in the system.
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marybaum
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Hiding From Reality
“Hiding From Reality - http://nyti.ms/dbdESE more evidence of America the banana republic. Do we care about anything?”The empowered rich care for themselves.
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Erica
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
“Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - http://nyti.ms/bsNITH”If you want to hold their attention, try a good story. Try Rocketship Rolling Stone or Podkayne of Mars for the prepubescent. Specify the Virginia Heinlein reissue. The publisher did a hatchet job on the firsts. Do The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to the adolescent. Once you have them reading for pleasure Moby Dick can go on the list. Put The Wizard of Oz on the summer list. The book is far enough from the movie or Wicked to know the source.
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samnzed
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Ireland Asks for Aid From Europe, Minister Says
“Ireland Asks for Aid From Europe, Minister Says - http://nyti.ms/9P63qL -let's hope the IMF is gentle with them”It won't be. It is bankers.This is probably the end for the Euro.
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1cincymom
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
“#NYT today: vivid portrait of teens failing school due to multitasking on screens. Kinda why I'm on Twitter less. http://nyti.ms/bsNITH”not yet.
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Denisehoebee
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The Attention-Span Myth
Can technology erode something that doesn’t exist?A good counterargument. Attention Span Would be a boredom coefficient. Really a measure of the curriculum.
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Token12ga
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Thanksgiving and the Tea Party
“The Pilgrams Were... Socialists? Thanksgiving and the Tea Party - http://nyti.ms/ax1zF9 #p2 #tcot ”Boston common is still the common. A pasture treated as a park and an inspiration to community gardeners. Salty tea indeed.
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dkmann
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
“Good article from NYT today Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - http://nyti.ms/bsNITH”Attention span difficulties?
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andycinek
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
“Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - http://nyti.ms/bsNITH #edchat ” OK, ok I'll do my homework.Done. Aesthetics. rhetoric. reading verse. mathematical modelling.Teach the Liberal Arts not their foundations. The kids know or will soon learn the foundations. It is the arts they need.
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