The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The meta-learning here — in addition to the course material — is about cultivating a co-learning community online. I’m planning the sixth iteration of Introduction to Cooperation Theory May 20-July 10. You can find out about it at http://bit.ly/cooperationclass. If you are interested in how I’ve approached co-learning in my years at UC Berkeley and …
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Good infotention advice — it applies, I believe, to the parts of the day when the flow of info online is akin to the flow of thoughts. Info overload is actually attention overload. Mindfulness Minimizes Thought Overload by Ora Nadrich
I’ve used The Brain for projects and for teaching. It’s an infotention tool in terms of advancing the way one transforms information into knowledge in a personally and visually organized form. If you haven’t seen The Brain, check out Jerry’s Brain. By Design: Let Your Creative Vision Lead the Way!
I’ve used Netvibes as an RSS reader for years. I particularly how easy it is to sync my attentional priorities to my on-screen info-flow by dragging higher priority tabs to the left and positioning the most important feeds at the top of their tab pages. If I am more pressed for time, I can just …
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Thinking systematically about how you use information flows and your cognitive processes to gather, test, evaluate knowledge is key to the internal aspects of infotention. A Student-Centred Conceptualisation of Critical Thinking One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about …
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When I teach infotention, I show learners how they can curate Twitter lists and use Paper.li to turn the lists into daily briefings by networks of experts on topics of their choosing. Curating, focusing, distilling, and formatting incoming streams of information about precisely the topics that interest you at any time is a key infotention …
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Again, this is from the productivity world, and infotention has an important core related to attention — not just tools, not just efficiency, but awareness and metacognition — but I know that at least a couple of these tools help me handle my info-flow (I use Slack and Skitch regularly) 12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts …
