book by Martin Seligman, also one branch of the Positive Psychology movement (more)

IndieWeb update to Track Back for Two Way Links (more)

card-stock for writing notes, typically 3x5in or 4x6in (more)

aka Federated, Federal, Federalism, Federalist. A federation is a large, often multi-ethnic, state originally based on mutual agreement between the participants. Compare with Empire, a term describing a large, multi-ethnic state, whose political structure was originally put together by Coercion... In Australian history, "federation" refers to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia by six British colonies on 1 January 1901, and also to the political movement in the 1890s to bring this about. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation (more)

Information overload (also known as infobesity,[1][2] infoxication,[3] information anxiety,[4] and information explosion[5]) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information (TMI) about that issue,[6] and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. The term "Information overload" was first used in Bertram Gross' 1964 book, The Managing of Organizations,[7] and was further popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock.[8] Speier et al. (1999) said that if input exceeds the processing capacity, information overload occurs, which is likely to reduce the quality of the decisions.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload

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PKM, PIM (more)

Mike Caulfield: “Students as Creators” and the Theology of the Attention Economy. A piece of what I hope is an emerging critique of how connectivism and constructivism has been practiced and sold in past years, and how we might reorient and reposition it knowing what we know now. (more)

Mike Caulfield: The Curation/Search Radicalization Spiral. People tend to think of grooming in the context of sexual predators or spies — the slow process of finding disaffected people and using their disaffection to warp their mind bit by bit. But we’ve long known that this is how online radicalization works as well, from ISIS to neo-Nazis. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Beyond Conversation. When people talk about Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article As We May Think, they are usually talking about the portion that starts around section six, which seems so prescient: (more)

Mike Caulfield: A Provocation for the Open Pedagogy Community. Dave Winer has a great post today on the closing of blogs.harvard.edu. These are sites run by Berkman, some dating back to 2003, which are being shut down. (more)

Mike Caulfield: The Power of Explaining to Others. When we argue we become dumber, more blind to our own lack of knowledge and logical inconsistencies. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Minimum Viable Public Project. We wanted the students to do public writing. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Narrative Neediness. That moment when the facts slot into a narrative eventually comes for everyone. It has to; we’re human and what we want is meaning. But I’m interested in delaying its arrival, if only for a little bit. And the question I have is how we can orient our pedagogy and digital interfaces to increase that delay, and in the process construct some narratives that are a bit less tidy and a bit more useful. (more)

Gordon Brander: Self-Organizing Ideas. Organizing ideas through sheer force of will is difficult, and I am lazy. Luckily there may be another way. Given the right mechanisms, the right conditions, and enough energy and time, a system can self-organize. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Auto-Annotating News Articles To Scaffold Media Literacy Skills In Students. I compiled a list of over 150 known front groups — groups that present as social activism groups, but are thought to be industry-funded astroturf. (annotation system) (more)

Mike Caulfield: Adopting a Library Metaphor for Sharing. The idea of affinity posting is you post not to spread information or start a discussion, but to demonstrate your membership in certain affinity groups. (more)

Bret Victor: The Web of Alexandria. Vannevar Bush's "library of a million volumes, compressed into one end of a desk" may sound quaint to us today. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Information Underload. I’m increasingly convinced, however, that our problem is not information overload but information underload. We suffer not because there is just too much good information out there to process, but because most information out there is low quality slapdash takes on low quality research, endlessly pinging around the spin-o-sphere. (bullshit) (more)

Mike Caulfield: It’s Not About the “Heat” of the Rhetoric, It’s About Its Toxicity. Toxic rhetoric is used not just to attack, but to warp people’s reality. (more)