The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
10 Open Source Policies for a Commons-Based Society
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1 Education 2 Research 3 Purchasing 4 Patents 5 Data 6 Collaboration 7 Commons 8 Health 9 Economy 10 Systemic Change
Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens.
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Open Education, efficiency, collaboration and management
Ben Janssen [has] made an interesting remark, as Ben often does. In his view, Open Education is not only a public good, but can also be used as a communication channel. As he stated:
“in my work as an external consultant I often find that departments within an organization are working on the same projects, starting the same pilots and the same programs”.
Even over organizations he sees the same phenomena: organizations who work on the same projects without knowing what happens a stone throw away.
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The Global Search for Education: Digital
“We live in a world now where anybody can ask any question anywhere and get thousands of answers within seconds, but it is up to the questioner to determine which of those answers are legit, which are false, which are intentionally misleading.” — Howard Rheingold
The literacies today: attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network awareness.
DOC (6 Pages): LRC General Information Packet
MoveOn, MomsRising, and now LivingRoomConversations
Generic meaningful social experiments in nurturing citizens in community. Note that the issue to be addressed communally is presented in Round 3, Rounds 1 and 2 are about building trust & understanding. There are a total of 5 rounds in two hours.
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This is a great resource to generate student research and discussion.
School in the Cloud allows learning to happen anywhere by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and ability to work together in Self Organised Learning Envrionments.
Open Source Hardware will revolutionize the way we learn Electronics
Just like open source software movement revolutionized the way we learn software – this movement will definitely democratize the way we learn hardware. What I see is people making embedded systems – just like they make softwares independently.
Is Urban Farming taking off? Here's a documentary about the Urban Farming Guys in Kansas City…
Check Out What the Urban Farming Guys Have Been Doing the Last 3 Years. You're Gonna Be Amazed.
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