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  • Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study explores what happens to students who aren’t allowed to suffer through setbacks. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Loving struggle and the benefits of fortitude come from the encounter of person to person not authority to masses. See on www.theatlantic.com Related articles Why…

  • 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 emotional strength. See on www.npr.org Related articles More Young People…

  • #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…

  • 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 Of Siddhartha (oneislandtwonationsblogspotcom.typepad.com) As you walk… (poet4justicedotwordpressdotcom.wordpress.com) Awakening to an…

  • 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 ancient town of Farmana, a modest settlement that prospered in…

  • 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.

  • 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 will need to remember these words when communicating with someone…

  • Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

    Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

    The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power cannot conceive that very many would ever break the chains…

  • 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…

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  • Jeopardized and Jeopardizing

    “As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its constitutive elements. Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection…

  • Without a Teacher

    Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest  

  • 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…