recommended education site

explore edudemic.com along with them we recommend these brain exercising phones apps mix some learning with the halo, skyrim, far cry, sleeping dogs, minecraft, and on and on.

you don't need no education (sorry r. waters)

at edudemic.com. an article considering the use of social media, text messaging, and free university courses. education will be very different five years from now. maybe your teacher will be sending you homework help through facebook, twitter, pinterest, or whatever may have replaced these in five years.

check this out from University of Colorado. is this you?

#youneedtounderstandthat

now at twitter. we think we communicate when we talk. all of us know that just isn't true.

take the time to watch a conversation. watch body language. is the listener engaged by the speaker. what happens when the speaker gives a pause. does the listener remark at all on what was just said.

not usually.

the new speaker says something of self. nothing of what they just heard. you do this too. you just don't care. or you just don't notice.

figure this below. good luck!

recommendation: hopemob.org

yesterday in a tweet we promised to feature hopemob.org in a post. there is too much good going on there to only feature one item. we love their sense of community. we love that they anchor all of us as a global community when they say "Let's..." find a cause. participate. watch for locked stories to become available. do some good.

Coca Cola: more than a soft drink

a coke can do so much more for you than get you wired and anxious

just look at all these uses at homesessive.com

ThoughtsDuringSchool

we daydream or sleep most of the day during high school. how many aren't bored at school.

an indiana survey of 81,000 students tells us 2% aren't ever bored at school.

cyber monday

the origins of the word cyber at the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

...the study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine". (Norbert) Wiener's work in the 1940s, related to cybernetics, constitutes one of the roots of modern "cognitive science."

our cyber monday comes to us in 2005 from this article at shop.org

your college needs better marketers

at education news universities need marketers too

AP Earthquakes

from the Indiana Geological Survey not many of us had earthquake studies in high school