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  • Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : NPR

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in school children is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated, it is often used to measure… Continue reading

  • #ETMOOC

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013 Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: And now the etMOOC (educational technology MOOC) to go along with the original cMOOCs and the more broadly hyped… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on All MOOCs, All The Time: My research and scholarship revolves around how learning technology (specifically recent explosions in distance and online learning technologies such as Khan Academy, cMOOCs and xMOOCs) affects the teaching profession.  There is great… Continue reading

  • Awake for Deathless Wisdom

    In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless. Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Ariyapariyesana Sutta Source: peace-n-kindness.tumblr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World (keithwaynebrown.com) Heart And Soul… Continue reading

  • Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. – Slate Magazine

      Working with other Indian and American archaeologists, the two applied new methods for pinpointing the elusive remains of spices that don’t show up in flotation tanks. Instead of analyzing dirt from Indus kitchens, they collected cooking pots from the… Continue reading

  • Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics | csid

    Super interesting. Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on Tracy James Jones: Note:  Initially, this was an exercise in writing. I read on another Blogger’s page that it was good practice to write a little something every day even if for nothing more than to keep… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Teacher Views Today: Great resources! Six Teaching Tools for Black History Month | Edutopia. Continue reading

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading