May 2013
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April 2013
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“This is a generation of kids that grew up with data science around them —...”
– Universities Offer Courses in a Hot New Field - Data Science - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
March 2013
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Great Teachers Can't Save America's Schools →
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Everybody loves a great teacher. When a student crosses paths with one, the influence can reverberate well beyond the last day of school. In last year’s State of the Union address, President Obama informed us that a “good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000,” a claim supported by a widely reported study by economists at Harvard and Columbia...
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“The feeling of uncertainty feels like pain, when you can’t predict when the...”
– Explaining People’s Behavior at Work (via slantback)
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“It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or...”
– David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via pawneeparksdepartment)
This totally justifies every excuse I’ve been giving myself from not doing that thing I’m supposed to do.
(via aaronmoles)
February 2013
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“At its most basic level, tinkering is making something genuinely new out of the...”
– “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity - Salon.com (via slantback)
“Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put...”
– Daniel Pink Says That In Today’s World We’re All Salespeople - Forbes (via slantback)
“Technology education, then, should not just be about teaching skills, it should...”
– BBC News - Viewpoint: Computer code frees us to think in new ways (via infoneer-pulse)
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Great Teachers Can't Save America's Schools →
infoneer-pulse:
Everybody loves a great teacher. When a student crosses paths with one, the influence can reverberate well beyond the last day of school. In last year’s State of the Union address, President Obama informed us that a “good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000,” a claim supported by a widely reported study by economists at Harvard and Columbia...
January 2013
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Can parents share child-raising responsibilities... →
“Across the country, parents are struggling through what many of us thought would come easily: an authentic split-down-the-middle approach. Is it working?
For a fortunate family like the Kranenburgs, it is, but it’s a no-margin, high-anxiety lifestyle. For the majority of parents who have the ability and inclination to divvy up responsibilities equally, the answer can be more complicated....
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At libraries, children find delight in reading to... →
“Some had learning disabilities, and their parents wanted them to practice in a nonjudgmental place. Some were learning English and liked reading without having their pronunciation corrected with every word. Some were shy about speaking up in class. And some, like Sean and his sister Mary, love reading and had been looking forward all week to reading to Tavish, a Hungarian vizsla.
“They...
December 2012
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Golden retrievers sent to comfort Newtown... →
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I like this.
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NASA And Google Chief Test-Launch An Internet That... →
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This month, NASA and the European Space Agency completed the first test of an Internet designed for outer space: Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN. Led by Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google, the team has spent the past decade developing an interplanetary Internet, impervious to the many challenges involved in transmitting information over many millions of miles. Internet...
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“Costco’s average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its...”
– How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times (via alexdarke)
This is good business. Happy employees mean happy and well served customers.
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Costco is my favorite place!
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“Wikipedia is like a calculator in math classes. What if there was a math...”
– Should Students Use Wikipedia? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“For the most part, people have no idea the extent to which they are being...”
– MediaShift . We Need a ‘Truth’ Campaign for Digital Literacy and Data Tracking | PBS (via infoneer-pulse)
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“He says that when we feel powerful, the brain structures associated with...”
– Gender, Power & Infidelity: A Complicated Affair | Psychology Today (via slantback)
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“We are witnessing the emergence of a new generation of CIOs, one that aims not...”
– Quote by John Mahoney, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. Quote found in a Gartner press release at Gartner Identifies Four Futures for IT and CIOs (via horizonwatching)
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