Yoda: Peter Skillen on Scaffolding for Deep (Collaborative) Understanding

With him, force is… Scaffolding for Deep Understanding Posted by Peter Skillen on Nov 30, 2012 in The How of 21st Century Teaching, How CAN we help our students be the kind of thinkers we want? Several years ago, my friend and colleague, @brendasherry, wrote a thoughtful post called What is Deep Understanding?  She asked several …

SchwartzReport: Mary Meeker’s State of the Internet Report

Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet Dylan Tweney VentureBeat, 3 December 2012 Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, has just published her latest huge deck of amazingly useful data, the “2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update.” Meeker is delivering her report to a group of Students at Stanford …

Richard Wright: Michael R. Davidson, CIA DO SIS (Ret), Comments on Steele & OSINT with Steele Response 2.1

UPDATE 2 Dec 2012:  Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …