by andflywrite | Oct 25, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
According to the NMEP, every day in October is manufacturing day. One of those days recently involved a visit to a small commercial space company in Las Cruces, called ARCA, located out at the Las Cruces airport. Cited here because one vision for the future of...
by andflywrite | Oct 8, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
As has been noted, video production is becoming a skill like being able read and write a language. To communicate today, one, at least some of the time, works with video, either original, or sourced, to constitute a YouTube, a Snap or Instagram, a Tweet, a Vine etc,...
by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
John recently mentioned a 2013 post I did about George Seimens on Connectivist theory. Here is more on connectivism in a slide share from Stephen Downes another researcher about learning theory for the digital age. Connectivism, MOOCs and Innovation from Stephen...
by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
“My parents were auctioneers,” Dickerson said. “There were all these kids hanging out. I organized the Cookie Tin. I got each one to bake a pan of cookies,” she said. “They sold the cookies. I, of course, took a percentage off the top.” A local example in this Las...
by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
In South Asia—I’ve worked a lot in Nepal, and also in India—I’m very impressed by two particular parenting behaviors. One is that parents are very physically affectionate. Fathers as well as mothers, and close relatives are too. And that is combined with totally clear...
by andflywrite | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Follow up to Kris’s recent post on Alison Gopnik, child development psychologist, philosopher, author, and frequent media guest, who teaches at Cal Berkeley: a TED talk by her which has been viewed 2.5M times, so far. “Babies and young children are like...
