• 20th July
    2011
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Cursive writing at a crossroads: What the death of handwriting means for education and society The art of cursive handwriting is at a crossroads. Touch-typing on a computer keyboard has replaced hand-writing on a sheet of paper so fully that the Indiana Department of Education, in a memo to the state’s elementary school principals (April 25, 2011), has officially canceled cursive writing from the state curriculum, replacing it with keyboarding. read full story here thanx bp sidethought: i was never good at cursive. capitol F’s for my last name were always the WORST! ha.

Cursive writing at a crossroads: What the death of handwriting means for education and society

The art of cursive handwriting is at a crossroads. Touch-typing on a computer keyboard has replaced hand-writing on a sheet of paper so fully that the Indiana Department of Education, in a memo to the state’s elementary school principals (April 25, 2011), has officially canceled cursive writing from the state curriculum, replacing it with keyboarding. read full story here

thanx bp

sidethought: i was never good at cursive. capitol F’s for my last name were always the WORST! ha.

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'...Today’s college grads need to be aware that the rising trend in Silicon Valley is to evaluate employees every quarter, not annually. Because the merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.'

(Source: thesmithian)

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  • 5th July
    2011
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University [in London] creates a degree in 'Creating Social Media'

Based on global examples, you will explore the technological and intellectual questions that have risen to prominence with the social web. You will critique existing approaches and tools, and plan, develop, hack and implement ground-breaking applications and campaigns. You will not only analyse: you will create.

New social media platforms, at their best, develop new online forms of connecting, relating, sharing and competing. Effective and innovative social media creation, therefore, involves deep theoretical and practical knowledge of both software development and social processes.

You will learn how to develop and hack social media software, how social worlds operate, how software tools enable different forms of social practice, and how new social media projects can be launched successfully. You will accelerate the impact of social media in your chosen field.

You will become proficient in

  • Computing skills in software development for new social media platforms, mashups, apps, and tools. This includes both coding and data skills, and a hacker approach

  • Theories of social processes and in methods to research them. 

  • Adapting social media to a variety of technological contexts and to the needs of specific communities

  • Surfacing the assumptions and limitations embedded in software 

  • Critically assessing contemporary discourses about social media and social change

  • Project managing social media ventures, and keeping users included at all stages

  • Creating social media interventions that address social processes in new ways.

Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.

(Source: kenyatta)

  • 5th July
    2011
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    2011
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