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Worth a Look: Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine

03 Economy, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Worth A Look
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Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream

Alexis Madrigal

The Atlantic, 27 August 2011

EXTRACT:

But really, the reason Square is exciting isn't as a direct swap-out of existing payment methods. Square is exciting because its mobility and low up-front costs allow entirely different types of business to move money with credit cards. Individuals, freelancers, farmers, nursery owners, Etsy DIY types, and a whole bunch of other people can actually treat cards as cash.

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Tip of the Hat to Kristin Nauth at LinkedIn.

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Government Secret Intelligence

00 Remixed Review Lists, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Worth A Look

Updated 22 July 2019

SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Spy-Reviews

A fraction–the most relevant, from Intelligence (Government/Secret)  (408).  Does not include Information Operations (154), Information Society (247), Information Technology (118), or Misinformation & Propaganda (242). Does not include Intelligence (Collective & Quantum) (114), Intelligence (Commercial) (90), Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial) (24), Intelligence (Public) (326), Intelligence (Spiritual) (6), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) (83).

Reviewed Since 2015 (Most recent first)

All reviews by Robert David Steele unless denoted as (Guest).

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Vishal Singh: Free Collaboration/Project Management

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Worth a Look: Books on Reinventing Education Updated July 2012

04 Education, Education (General), Education (Universities), Worth A Look

Phi Beta Iota:  There are other books but these are the ones that have caught our attention.

Now You See It, by Cathy N. Davidson

A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown

21st Century Skills by James Bellanca and Ron Brandt

Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education David N. Perkins

Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation by Ben Wildavsky, Andrew Kelly, Kevin Carey

Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson

Teaching Digital Natives by Marc Prensky

The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education: 7 Steps for Schools and Districts by Ken Kay and Valerie Greenhill

The Innovative University by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring

The Open Source Everything Manifesto by Robert Steele

The Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a Screen-Captured World by John Sener

The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education by Curtis J. Bonk

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John Steiner: Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade

04 Education, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Worth A Look
John Steiner

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade

By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

The New York Times, August 7, 2011

The contemporary American classroom, with its grades and deference to the clock, is an inheritance from the late 19th century.

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In her galvanic new book, Now You See It, Ms. Davidson asks, and ingeniously answers, that question. One of the nation’s great digital minds, she has written an immensely enjoyable omni-manifesto that’s officially about the brain science of attention. But the book also challenges nearly every assumption about American education.

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Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.

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