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Gene Bellinger - Change Management: The Columbo Theory - Systems Thinking
How do we convince others to accept our view? The author writes, "It depends on whether one can integrate self and other to create selfless. It depends on whether one can integrate dependent and independent to create interdependent. It depends on whether one can develop a sense of self and self-awareness which is independent of the event, and establish an intent, as Senge and Fritz put it, for the pursuit of truth. Not my truth, or your truth, but more of an appropriate truth." What needs to be stressed, I think, is that 'selfless', as described here, does not imply loss of self, nor From
OLDaily on March 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Associated Press - AOL Vows to Institute Fee-based Service Despite Protests - San Jose Mercury News
Let me be clear, so there is no doubt. If AOL's system were widely adopted, it would start costing me hundreds of dollars a month to provide this newsletter. AOL's statement that "only legitimate senders of mass e-mail are likely to pony up the fee" is a crock - only commercial mass emailers will do so (and they, of course, won't be slowed at all). So if AOL launches this program, please note that AOL will be subject to a complete and total boycott from this site: all email from AOL accounts in and out will be refused, all web accesses (including RSS) will be blocked. I e From
OLDaily on March 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Dave Tosh - Meeting the Accountability Challenge by Implementing a Campus-Wide ePortfolio. - Dave Tosh : Weblog
Take a new technology, put into the hands of an institution, and they break it. As Dave Tosh says, "the conclusion suggests to me that they are completely missing the boat: 'As higher education institutions adapt to society's current and future needs and expectations, implementing robust ePortfolios will increase effectiveness and document our value to our students and communities. We must be proactive to show policy makers that we embrace our changing world and that we are committed to excellence, both for our students and our institution.'" e-Portfolios aren't about makin From
OLDaily on March 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Terry Freedman - Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts? What if We're All Wrong? - Information and Communication Technology in Education
So here we have another case of 'simply not getting it'. In a nutshell, it's this: "In effect, John Clare has set our members a challenge which, expressed crudely, is: put up or shut up! Show us evidence of transformed teaching and learning -- not anecdotal stuff, but measurable gains and, I would add, examples which are both scaleable and replicable, and which stand the test of time (ie short-term gains are sustained in the long-term)." Sheesh. Why should we respond to a challenge on these terms? Why should we let someone like John Clare set the agenda, set the terms of success From
OLDaily on March 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
roseg - Endangered Species - randomselections
I am a scientist; it says so in my job description (and my
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists membership). Yet I do not even remotely resemble the stereotypical picture of a scientist (except, maybe, for the hair). I don't even write and think like a stereotypical scientist. I am by no means alone. So I am prompted by this item to wonder where such stereotypical images originate. Not how they're broadcast, the usual
mass media suspects are eas From
OLDaily on March 5, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Chinese Set Up Lawmaker Blogs
Only eight of 5,000 delegates to China's National People's Congress are approved to post comments on government-sponsored web logs. China is trying to boost public interest in the parliament by using the medium popular with young people. From
Wired News on March 5, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..
Public Education Has Never Looked So Bad
This March, Whitaker House anticipates the year’s most provocative exposé, Public Education Against America: The Hidden Agenda, by radio talk show legend Marlin Maddoux. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2006] From
PR Web on March 5, 2006 at 9:08 a.m..
Conference Combats Uninformed Beliefs
Center for Inquiry-Florida holds an annual conference to inform the public about how to reverse the decline of society, education, politics, and the negative effects of religion and pseudo-science. An increasingly illiterate and uninterested majority of Americans is too easily manipulated by loud fringe groups. To make a profit the "news" media looks to produce titillation rather then present clear useful facts. Politicians are too readily directed by lobbyists. These are all contrary to the welfare of everyday people. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2006] From
PR Web on March 5, 2006 at 9:08 a.m..
Net generation challenges learning providers - with tulips
Practitioners and researchers will gather in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 6 and 7 April to examine the challenge of the so-called 'Net generation', technology for lifelong learning, and the promise (or pitfalls) of digital games in education. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2006] From
PR Web on March 5, 2006 at 9:08 a.m..
DayPort Announces Carbon Publish Element - CPE
US based company, DayPort, Inc., the leading provider of Content Management Solutions and Content Delivery in the international market, announces Carbon Publish Element (CPE), an entry-level, technology transparent solution for repurposing video content to the web. CPE allows users to quickly and easily expand the audience for their video content through web publishing. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2006] From
PR Web on March 5, 2006 at 9:08 a.m..