XKCD Finally Takes Physics To Task

Scientists say this 191-year-old symphony could help your heart health.

This is pretty cool.

“ According to a group of fancy Oxford University scientists, listening to the third movement of Beethoven's No. 9 might actually lower your blood pressure and help fight heart disease. In real life. Music therapy has been a thing for a while. But British researchers just hit upon some of the first concrete evidence that it's actually, like, a thing.”

Higher Ed is the Province of the High Achieving and the Wealthy

I don’t want a society that massively excludes so many students, nor one where you have to be better than perfect to gain admission to your state university. For 20 years now, anyone with access to the internet has been able to publish ideas to anyone else in the world with an internet connection. That’s an amazing opportunity and a formidable responsibility. Yet our antiquated educational system rewards a hierarchical form of silo’d, standardized teaching and learning that was designed for the Taylorized Industrial Age. Our over-emphasis on standardized testing undermines the intellectual skills of critical thinking and productive contribution needed to thrive in our interactive Do-It-Yourself era.

Aliens and Encryption

HOW SCIENTISTS SEARCH THE COSMOS FOR ENCRYPTED ALIEN SIGNALS (AND OTHER ONES TOO) via The Intercept

Students Hate Writing Papers. Professors Hate Grading Papers. Let

Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it, wed have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/an-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman/54301

https://www.change.org/petitions/scholars-writers-and-teachers-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman

Gen Z

 I've started seeing a lot of buzz about Gen Z... 

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That's quite a lot of hype!!  Here are the links to the other info on Gen Z that I've come across:

Millennials Are Old News — Here’s Everything You Should Know About Generation Z

Gen Z wants to change the world. 60% of them want to have an impact on the world, compared to 39% of millennials, according to a study by Sparks & Honey, a New York-based marketing agency. Roughly one in four Generation Z-ers are involved in volunteering. Advanced college degrees are less important to them. 64% of Gen Z-ers are considering an advanced college degree, compared to 71% of millennials. 

    Generations Z

Born: 1995-2012 Coming of Age: 2013-2020 Age in 2004: 0-9 Current Population: 23 million and growing rapidly ** college age 2013-2030** **Have always known the internet**

Meet Generation Z  the first 10 slides are mostly for marketers, you'll find the rest of the slidedeck to be of interest (**p52)...  this was prepared by Sparks & Honey (the ones that did that study I linked to above)

8 Important Education Trends in Generation Z

Generation Z will Revolutionize Education

#Fordham DLC was AWESOME today!

Check out:  Digital Literacies Collaborative

Blog

Wiki

Agenda from the conference today 

Tech Talk Bingo

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psychopath

Netflix party of 1

Decided to splurge and buy Galaxy Quest (Amazon) for $2- I had a $3 credit and the sale price was $5.  Good deal either way!  It’s a fun movie!  

Zoom Projects

I’m working on a couple of projects.  One of them is to organize some zoom lunches, dinners, netflixparties, art nights, and other fun social activities on zoom.  I need to fix the survey on the new page of my website, stay tuned.

Zoom Art Night:  4-5 people, 60 minutes, theme #1 Collage Night Collect papers you like, or magazines More directions to follow

Some thoughts

If you write it down you are more likely to do it

Community, Care, and Communication

New workshops coming in April

Working on an AI bot to support scalable, effective online learning

Teachers touch tomorrow today

Wikipedia updates soon

#WOL 

The night before, I reflect on what are my top three goals the next day, and before starting to work, take 10 minutes to reflect on what I need to do and when I need to do it by.  Work in order of priorities.  

Fake it until you make it

These are difficult times, but in time of crisis is also a time of great opportunity.  The field of education, and of education technology, has a lot of change in a short amount of time through the ages.  

link to full size map by Vicky Earl

link to full size image from tweet by @justintarte

And here is a timeline I created based off of an article on EDUCAUSE that highlights one new technology or trend.

link to full size image from Flickr 

I have a set of slides I use at the beginning of most of my presentations.  It starts with a timeline that gives an overview of the information ages, and puts into context, just how new the age of the Internet is.  This is the Wild, Wild West.  As an instructional technologist I help guide faculty through their own explorations of leveraging tech.  

link to larger image from Flickr

Note, I plan to use this and other updated graphics in the sequel to the Tech Trends talk (fordham.edu/techtrends) I gave last year.  Working title:  A New Information Age. 

I’ll also be talking about things like growing your PLN, using curation tools, the history of online learning at Fordham, effective pedagogy, hybrid/online learning, and more.

One more teaser....  YouTube channel launch coming soon...

Recent Recipe

I made during the last Zoom Dinner I had and it was delicious!  Can’t wait to make it again.

Fish, adobo light, cracked lemon pepper, garlic olive oil spray, garlic powder in the nuwave Toasted, with a little melted butter Light mayo/sour cream + lots of relish Lemon juice

Optional:  With a raw pepper in place of cheese

 I’ll leave you with a quote from Galaxy Quest 

Never give up. Never surrender.

be well, k

Democracy

Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

The 15 Warning Signs of Impending Tyranny

via Robert Reich

5 Principles of True Patriotism:

Exercising the Franchise of Digital Citizenship