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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Think and do?
Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Think and do?
Dave Ferguson explains at the end of this post his "three links out" idea. You read a post on one of your regular blogs, then click a link (1). From there, click another link (2). From that place, click a third link (3). This brings you outside your regular circle of reading so you're explosed to new people and ideas. Seems like a good lifelong learning technique.
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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Think and do?
The Heart of Innovation: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating
The Heart of Innovation: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating
Common excuses for not innovating or changing, plus a technique for addressing these excuses.
<p>Current reality, however, is only <em>one</em> form of reality. And just because it's <em>current</em> doesn't mean it's the way it will always be. Or <em>should</em> be. </p> <div id="a000238more"><div id="more"> <p>Real innovators challenge excuses. Real innovators challenge the status quo. They do not concede to current reality.</p></div></div>
·ideachampions.com·
The Heart of Innovation: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating
Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing
Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing
Survey results about teens and writing, showing that students who blog write more for personal reasons and are more likely to think writing skills are essential. Most students think their writing would improve if they could use more technology to practice writing for school.
Forty-seven percent of teen bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons several times a week or more, compared with 33 percent of teens without blogs. Sixty-five percent of teen bloggers believe that writing is essential to later success in life; 53 percent of non-bloggers say the same thing.
Most students (82 percent) believe that additional instruction and focus on writing in school would help improve their writing even further--and more than three-quarters of those surveyed (78 percent) think it would help their writing if their teachers used computer-based writing tools such as games, multimedia, or writing software programs or web sites during class.
·eschoolnews.com·
Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing
Take Your Résumé and Shove It - US News and World Report
Take Your Résumé and Shove It - US News and World Report
Interview with someone who did a successful search for employees using only social networking tools--no resume, no email allowed.
<strong>Is transparency one of the key benefits to this sort of job search?</strong> <br> Absolutely. I wanted the transparency. The problem with traditional résumé interviewing is it's so one-dimensional and it's so easy to paint yourself as something. If I can look at your social network, I can see much more. This took a level of trust for the people who were reaching out to me. But I did say that I'm a big enough boy, that I'm OK if you talked about partying or things that you do in your personal life. I want to know who you are. I'm a human being as well, and I don't care that you do things, because I expect that human beings would do these things.
·usnews.com·
Take Your Résumé and Shove It - US News and World Report
WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed.
WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed.
An analysis of 100 web pages of higher ed institutions showed that only 3 of them met the Section 508 requirements. Most pages were missing skip navigation links and alt text.
In my opinion, good semantic structure is one of the most essential and overlooked accessibility issues. A clearly-structured site is usually easier to understand, navigate, and is more accessible to users, particularly those with cognitive disabilities.
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WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed.
Techdirt: Txt Spk In Schools Not A Big Deal
Techdirt: Txt Spk In Schools Not A Big Deal
Basically, the research shows that students do sometimes forget and let abbreviations from texting into other writing, but overall the technology use and writing students do improves their writing. Links to multiple studies done in the last several years.
In 2003, there was a study that showed that all this writing online was actually making kids <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030520/1943254_F.shtml">more comfortable</a> with writing in general. In 2004, a study showed (like this one) that with a little instruction kids easily <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20041223/1427218.shtml">understood the difference</a> between texting and writing. In 2005, a study actually found that kids were <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051031/1836235.shtml">better writers</a> than in the past "using far more complex sentence structures, a wider vocabulary and a more accurate use of capital letters, punctuation and spelling" even if they sometimes let a txtism into their writing. And, in 2006, a study showed that students showed <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060731/1938242.shtml">no ill effects</a> from widespread text and IM messaging.
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Techdirt: Txt Spk In Schools Not A Big Deal
Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast
Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast
Summary of a model for creating incompetence--i.e., what NOT to do
<p><em><strong>Information</strong></em></p> <ul> <li>Don’t let people know how well they’re performing.</li> <li>Give people misleading information about how well they’re performing.</li> <li>Hide from people what’s expected of them.</li> <li>Give people little or no guidance about how to perform well.</li></ul>
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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast
Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills
Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills
Using technology with kindergarteners and first graders to support social constructivist learning. Registration required to read the whole article.
Well-integrated technology opens social networks for students and allows children to develop key social skills, according to two recent studies conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
·eschoolnews.com·
Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills
Harold Jarche » Is Johnny Bunko Right?
Harold Jarche » Is Johnny Bunko Right?
Summary of the career advice in Daniel Pink's book "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko." Jarche would add to the list that many typical qualifications (like degrees and certificiates) don't really correlate with actual work.
The only job that a university degree directly qualifies you for is another university degree. Sitting in a classroom, writing essays and answering tests is not the workplace. Solving real problems, of importance to others, within existing constraints - is what most work is about.
·jarche.com·
Harold Jarche » Is Johnny Bunko Right?