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  • Originally posted on Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home: When it comes to sugary foods we always think they are bad for us. Were continually told by doctors and other health care practitioners that we should stay away from all the different types of sugary…

  • #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 xMOOCs.  See on etmooc.org

  • 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 scholarship on the difficulties of distance instruction, and a whole…

  • 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 of an intellectual joker – searched phrases like “current employers…

  • 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 the creative juices flowing.  The desire to write this story…

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

  • MOOCmania | DMLcentral

    This is connected learning: the connection between ideas and the materialization of things, between people collaborating to learn and do and make things together, between mind and machine, curiosity and capacity, anywhere and anytime learning and effecting, between the world as it is and our ideals of edification and equity…

  • Originally posted on Vicky Nanjappa: Vicky Nanjappa View original post

  • Yes, the Chicken is organic… but are the workers paid a living wage?

    . ..Next month will see the release of Saru Jayaraman’s first book, Behind the Kitchen Door, which challenges foodies who demand organic, fair-trade and free-range ingredients in their food to pay just as much attention to the people who do the majority of the work in the restaurants we patronize… …Jayaraman…

  • 1/26/13 – Early afternoon, green armchair

    An old man sits on the dock, fishing. He is lost in the enchanting mystery that is the sea. When he was young, he would follow his father to the docks, watching him load crates on to the big ships from America. What would it be like to be on…

  • They’re Not Digital Natives, They’re Digital Tourists!

    Originally posted on Used Books in Class: To all those who claim that all students today are digital “natives,” I beg to disagree. Digital natives are defined as those people who have grown-up using technology daily beginning in the 1960s, but the term is more commonly used to describe those…

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: Sticking with the program, I have been out on a number of excursions into the cold, cold winter woods.  There has been no snow, which is a drag, because I was really hoping to get some idyllic snowy shots this winter…but alas, it’s either not cold…

  • The Croney Capitalism Blowout

    Originally posted on Dead Wild Roses:   Why do things happen the way they do?  Why do certain segments of society do well when everyone else is being hammered?  Some would say through being “smart” and “working hard”, but that is weapons grade bullshite of the highest order.  It is…

  • Amen good brother!

  • Originally posted on advocatemmmohan aksharaalu: No doubt English: A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui). Français : Une Vanesse du chardon. Русский: Бабочка репейница. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) every one is unique Still follow the world later world follows you No theory No philosophy cures the inhibitions of any one Simply live like…