This is a hobby blog, not my business or professional blog. Here's where you can find out what I've been tinkering with, contemplating, ranting about, or having fun with lately.
linguistics & language
social systems & observations
info-graphics & life-graphs
integral theory & AQAL
life design & ontology
personality systems & tools
learning & learning strategies
Quote Deim
“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. The way real science goes is that you come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong.”
Francis Crick, 2004
Freakin' Cool
It takes a lot of cool, nerdy passionate & top-end content to get listed in this box. These sites are good use of net time if you like the same kinds of things I do.
Thanks to Wendy Drexler for posting this video which features one of her 7th graders demonstrating her personal learning environment.
(Video and more after the jump)
This shows just how much the Internet has already transformed learning and the daily practices and skill sets of middle school students. It's amazing.
By the way - if you don't how to do everything shown in the video, you might want to consider Googling the topics and teaching yourself, since these are the primary skills for 21st century knowledge workers. Plus, you always to keep your computer skills up to at least a 7th-grade level!
UPDATE: The web tool she is using to track all her links and sites is Symbaloo.com, and you can get an account there for free and start doing what she does, plus organize your normal web activities.