Archive for October 2011

Developer 101 with Codeacademy

An interesting, very preliminary step forward in a key are. Codeacademy came to our attention by its Silicon Valley fiuding event. As they say, developing…

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Paying Attention with @HRheingold

Cathy Davidson’s  thoughtful rumination on the foundations of Infotention: Paying Attention with @HRheingold’s Class at Stanford | HASTAC.

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Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters

The source document for the Infotention movement: Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters | City Brights: Howard Rheingold | an SFGate.com blog.

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Pop-Up University

If Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, originally germinated out of fun and impulse, the next stage was more scary-serious. As soon as I took people’s money and started telling the world about my intentions, I was obligated as well as motivated to make it work – not just to deliver a rich set of learning materials, but to conjure actual social learning magic. Networked social learning is most effective and truly magical when students who don’t know one another one day start scouring the world for knowledge to bestow on each other

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The Infotention Network

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