| |
STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Social Media: An Interview I was asked to contribute my responses to interview questions on social media for a new journal called The Future of Learning and of course I was happy to send some thoughts along. When did you start getting interested in the potential of social media in education and why? It all depends on what you call social media. It is based on the internet. | | JANE HART FEBRUARY 23, 2012 From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I’ve changed this blog’s title from “Learning in the Social Workplace” to “Workforce Collaboration” Why? Well, to try and avoid the “learning” word or at least the term “social learning”! Let me explain. Collaboration Social learning | ADAPTIVE PATH FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Design Interrupted: Design-time Versus Meeting-time Ever see sleep histograms like the one pictured below? There are levels of sleep, and the deeper you go, the better the sleep you're getting. But it takes time for you to get to the sweet spot of REM sleep and achieve quality sleep. And if the neighbor's dog barks (or, in my household, your toddler yells "mama!") This happened last year. | | | | | | | |
| -
DOC SEARLS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012  Let’s use the ‘No Track’ button we already have
( Cross-posted from the ProjectVRM blog.). For as long as we’ve had economies, demand and supply have been attracted to each other like a pair of magnets. Ideally, they should match up evenly and produce good outcomes. But sometimes one side comes to dominate the other, with bad effects along with good ones. And I still believe that. MyDex. MORE >> -
ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Design Interrupted: Design-time Versus Meeting-time
Ever see sleep histograms like the one pictured below? There are levels of sleep, and the deeper you go, the better the sleep you're getting. But it takes time for you to get to the sweet spot of REM sleep and achieve quality sleep. And if the neighbor's dog barks (or, in my household, your toddler yells "mama!") This happened last year. MORE >> -
DAN PINK | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012  How to say No. especially to things you want to do
Last night, I had a breakthrough: I realized that personal productivity is the new dieting. Like all evening epiphanies, this one is subject to future revision, refinement, and rejection.). Here’s what I mean. century ago, America didn’t have much of a weight loss industry. Lack of demand. Calories became abundant and cheap. MORE >> -
ANDY MCAFEE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012  The BLS Thinks These Jobs Will Grow a Lot. I Think They’re Wrong.
In a post at The Atlantic , Jordan Weissmann draws a couple interesting graphs using data from the BLS’s recently-released projections of job growth to 2020. Weissmann concentrates on those jobs that require only a high-school diploma or less, and points out the surprising stat that 63% of all US jobs created (12.8 Do you agree? MORE >> -
TED | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Watch Session 7 of TED2012 — free
On Wednesday night, join the world to watch Session 7 of TED2012 for free. The webcast of Session 7 will be free to the world on February 29, 2012, starting at 5pm PST (1am GMT) and running until about 6:45pm PST. It will be viewable at this link. No login or password will be required. Watch with the world as we share our wishes for The City 2.0 ! MORE >>
- What’s The Best Time of Day to be Creative? PSYBLOG | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- Great Debate: Social enterprise - Fact or fiction? Live next Tuesday, Feb. 28th at 2pm ET DION HINCHCLIFFE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- Auditions are open in Johannesburg for TED2013 TED | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration | Workforce Collaboration JANE HART'S PICK OF THE DAY | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- [2b2k] Ethanz on linguistic isolation DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- Counting down to TED2012: A roundup of guides, schedules and links TED | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
|
|
