Thursday, October 28, 2010

have you had your neolibral arts today?

Clipped from www.wired.com

7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College






































Statistical LiteracyMaking sense of today’s data-driven world.
2.Post-State DiplomacyPower and politics, sans government.
3.Remix CultureSamples, mashups, and mixes.
4.Applied Cognition The neuroscience you need.
5.Writing for New Forms Self-expression in 140 characters.
6.Waste StudiesUnderstanding end-to-end economics.
7.Domestic TechHow to use the world as your lab.





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It’s the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.Read more at www.wired.com
 


Tuesday, October 26, 2010

@squirrellearns So I attempted your very clever #jbotl collaborative whiteboarding strategy with Google Drawings tonight in our Adobe Connect classroom. Students in labs had trouble with browsers allowing the sidebar chat and drawing tools. Sent 4 teams off to their own boards.. we ended up with a nice list of 'challenges to synchronous collaboration' :) I learned to scale back number of boards (made sharing more complicated) and plan around browser issues. Students were engaged by the experiment. Will definitely try again ~ kudos for your inspiration! http://amplify.com/u/e1cl