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I don't want to get all "post hoc ergo proctor hoc" on ya',
but before I started dabbling in social media, my mac and I were pure online, never visited by that digital social disease, “malware.” I was recently shocked to find that left on my computer by some unscrupulous information partner were a small herd of “trojan horses” meant to spy on me. The sign? Strange, ghostly pop-ups that hijacked my google…
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When social media work, people get helped–Yes!
…but they also get hurt, the news reminds us. In our promethean day, new technology displays both angelic and demonic faces. We humans should keep both in mind as we procede, lest we grow too relaxed or too stressed. In the same week that scary new internet killers are reported, Harold “Digitalharold” Olejarz shares a heart-warming instance of social networks…
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Are you helping kids feel empowered to win the "school game"
I challenge every teacher to ask himself that question, because if more kids wanted to play the “school game,” we wouldn’t have so many behavior problems, and dropouts wouldn’t be over 50% as they are in Chicago public schools. When a game works, it sells itself– no one need motivate the players. But a game…
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Hey, American student: say hello to the majority of the world
via a web-based “text” that brings you closer to the rest of humanity, now more than ever centered in cities. Unfortunately, unlike rationally planned cities like Chicago without a huge underclass, these places mostly house their humans in slums, an organic acretion of housing that satisfies immediate needs, if not sustainably. Hey, American teacher, how’s…
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Gettin' digi wid' it @ Google London
Despite the avalanche of new digital tools, nothing can touch good old-school digital: I mean human fingers in creative activity. These two guys are great, and would have been so in any age. “>
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First steps into the cloud are scary…
and that is why I can’t feel impatient with my department colleagues, none of whom has run along side me headlong into this read/write web business. I am still awaiting the first dialog via web 2.0 tools with them, but they are making progress. Evidence of their willingness occurred today in a collaborative team session…
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It's not your father's fear-mongering campaign
By now you’ve probably heard about the National Organization for Marriage’s youtube video that has folks talking. I think it’s a great example of how things for oppressed minorities might get better in a read/write web world. These “Christian” “defenders of marriage” (who claim to be a “rainbow coalition of people who come together in…
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Now that the feds have had it a while, maybe we'll let the schools play with it
Interesting news from the US federal digital frontier, where the CIA and its related agencies (NSA, Homeland Security, the FBI, ATF, etc.) have apparently been doing great things using the cutting edge of collaborative tools, according to an article in this week’s Time. Yes, it seems that the cleverest heads in the public sector have…
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We put leashes on our pets, so shouldn't we get tweets from our reps?
Gotta hand it to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grasssly, who is tweeting his way into transparency. Bravo! He leads by example, adopting the democratizing tool for speaking to and hearing from the vox populi. As you can see in this post-stream (left), the senator is letting his followers in on significant meetings and his whereabouts, and…
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A new way to "read" is what we're learning on web 2.0
We’re reading in ways no humans could before. Say I need to read a large text–an essay, blog post, or speech, say–but don’t have the time to read it all. I just want to get the “big picture” as fast as I can. Well, thanks to David Warlick’s 2 cents, I learned about IBM’s Many…
The Wikiness 