Knowledge Problem. The Heartland Institute. Moving beyond self-directed learning: Network-directed learning. This site has been created to foster discussion on how our thinking, learning, and organizational activities are impacted through technology and societal changes. Since the original publication of Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, I've been approached by many people requesting additional thinking and discussion. Four tools are available to provide dialogue: Blog for my personal reflective thoughtsWiki for collaborative content creationDiscussion forums for discussion on issues impacted by a connectivist view of learningEmail list for discussions on technology, networks and learning Most resources on this site are intended for public viewing, but contributing to the wiki or discussion forums requires registration.
Please create your account by clicking the "join" text on the top, right-hand corner. If you are interested in general learning and technology trends, please visit my elearnspace site. Welcome to the Obama Dependency Economy | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations. Radial Engines Radial engines are used in aircrafts having propeller connected to the shaft delivering power in order to produce thrust its basic mechanism is as follows Steam engine Principle Steam engine once used in locomotives was based on the reciprocating principle as shown below Sewing Machine Maltese Cross Mechanism this type of mechanism is used in clocks to power the second hand movement.
Manual Transmission Mechanism The mechanism also called as “stick shift” is used in cars to change gears mannually Constant Velocity Joint This mechanism is used in the front wheel drive cars Torpedo-Boat destroyer System This system is used to destroy fleet in naval military operations. Rotary Engine Also called as Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine has a unique design that converts pressure into rotating motion instead of reciprocating pistons. Throwing in the towel on policy makers. A post by Edward Harrison. Earlier today, I had a brief e-mail exchange with Marshall Auerback in which I said that I had basically thrown in the towel on US (and global) policy makers. Early on in this crisis, I had advocated a number of policy paths which I think would have been infinitely superior to the ones actually chosen by the Bush and Obama Administrations, especially in regards to limiting the socialization of losses.
I am talking about massive fiscal stimulus, big bank pre-privatization, a move away from the asset-based economy and the accumulation of debt, and a reallocation of resources. Quite frankly, none of these suggestions have been taken on. I find this narrative very unsettling and the complacent view it represents as likely to lead to another systemic crisis in short order.
And it seems that I am not the only one who has come to this conclusion. I agree with Professor Thoma. The question, then, is what is going to happen. The Utopianist. The Lighter Side of Farmer Suicides. Complex vision of citizen media. Chris Csikszentmihayli opens the morning’s session at MIT’s Knight News Challenge conference with an overview of his view of the world – “It’s my view from MIT – MIT wouldn’t endorse it, they’ve been quite specific about that,” he quips, a reference to the university’s unfortunate decision not to grant him tenure. Chris is now focusing on managing the Center for Future Civic Media, and outlines one of the most exciting projects, ExtrAct. The project calls attention to the process of natural gas extraction via fracturing, a process that exposes millions of rural Americans to incredibly toxic chemicals. ExtrAct tries not just to document the practices of fracturing, but to help rural, poor, highly disconnected people organize, get media attention and fight some of the harmful effects of these practices.
What do we, as a society want, Chris wonders. A free and just society. Last night’s talk, Chris summarizes, was the “rending of garments” about the death of the daily newspaper. Publications by Russell Roberts. Travels in a Mathematical World. New Economic Perspectives. SCS Matters, LLC. Files for Downloading This page is intended to provide easy access to a variety of files that you will find interesting and/or useful. The initial files are all in PDF format, and you will need to have Adobe Reader installed to open them. Adobe Reader is a free download from Adobe. In some cases the links will take you directly to the file for downloading, and in other cases, the link will take you to a folder with a list of files.
Podcasts....We have made our instructional CD on self-hypnosis available as a series of three podcasts. If you’ve always wanted to learn self-hypnosis for personal trance-formation, see our new page for downloading the podcasts now. Free, Fun, and Useful The following files have been the most requested by participants in our workshops and those who have read our materials. Basic Energy Techniques. Fliers and Brochures The following fliers and brochures are currently available online: Special for Veterans: End Your PTSD. Homefun for Those Seeking NLP Certification. Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now - Tammy Erickson - HarvardBusiness.org. By Tammy Erickson | 10:58 AM July 19, 2009 William Strauss and Neil Howe, coauthors of Generations, posit that each generation makes a unique bequest to those that follow and generally seeks to correct the excesses of the previous generation. They argue that the Boomer excess is ideology and that the Generation X reaction to that excess involves an emphasis on pragmatism and effectiveness.
As many of you know, I’ve spent much of the last year talking with members of Generation X — those of you born roughly in the 1960s and ’70s. The book I’ve written based on those conversations (What’s Next, Gen X? Future leaders in all spheres will have to contend with a world with finite limits, no easy answers, and the sobering realization that we are facing significant, seemingly intractable problems on multiple fronts. In this context, I’m convinced that Gen X’ers will be the leaders we need. You have traded the idealism of my generation for realism, tempered by value-oriented sensibilities. Shift Happens Redux. Today is a big day.
It is the first time that we can offer a view of something I have been working on for the past year. About one year ago, we began an undertaking that some described as bold, and others characterized as foolhardy. The first product of this effort is just now being released – we call it the Shift Index. Hopefully the scope and size of this undertaking will help to explain why it has been a while since I posted to this blog.
I have been just a bit distracted. The catalyst for this effort was a meeting about one year ago. We were looking at economic indices and struck by the fact that most of the well-known indices focus on very short-term cyclical events – unemployment, inflation, purchasing activity, consumer confidence levels, etc. On the other hand, everyone acknowledges that we are in the midst of a fundamental shift playing out on the business landscape on a global scale over many decades. So we decided to develop one. Designs on Policy - Allison Arieff Blog. In a recent piece for The Atlantic, the designer Michael Bierut addressed the state of something on all of our minds these days.
Money. Specifically, its design, which Bierut is none too happy about. On the back side of the U.S. dollar, we are faced, says Bierut, with the general effect of “a cake that has been decorated to within an inch of its life.” As for those enormous purple numbers added to deter counterfeiters a few years ago? “A denim patch on a satin dress,” says Bierut. Winning currency design by Kyle Thompson. (Click to enlarge.) Charmed by the graphic perfection of Switzerland’s currency and the elephants and rhinos bursting forth from South Africa’s, Bierut thinks it’s time for a currency overhaul in this country.
A good place to start? I’m right there with Bierut and Smith . . . and why stop there? As the illustrations below show, good design can make the nonsensical beautiful. AIGAAIGA proposal for credit card disclosure information. O.K., so I know what you’re thinking. Under Cap and Trade you must retrofit your home or you can't sell (goodbye real estate market) The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.
This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide. It continues: “The purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States.” [link to www.cnsnews.com] All Things Digital for the iPhone Mobile Application | AllThingsD. Macroegonomics - The Atlantic (April 2009) Economic policy makers thought they had tamed the business cycle. Not quite. Let’s hope their hubris doesn’t get in the way of our economic recovery Left: Shaun Heasley/Reuters/Corbis; Right: Adam Hunger/Reuters/Corbis Christina Romer, the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, is a liberal economist.
The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin is a Democratic shrine. Her story went something like this: macroeconomists got cocky in the 1960s, thinking that policy makers could set unemployment at whatever rate they wanted by accepting a related level of inflation. “We have seen the triumph of sensible ideas and have reaped the rewards in terms of macroeconomic performance,” Romer concluded. She was, as we now know, wrong about the happy ending. I don’t mean to pick on Romer, who is a fine and careful scholar. But containing inflation and eliminating, or noticeably dampening, economic downturns are two entirely different things. Good policy may limit the pain. Billy blog.
Newest Questions - English Language and Usage - Stack Exchange. Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management? - Ian MacMillan, Max Boisot, and Martin Ihrig - The Conversation. By Martin Ihrig, Max Boisot, and Ian MacMillan | 11:54 AM January 20, 2011 Is your company investing in expensive knowledge management systems that are useless for making big, strategy decisions? Most companies recognize the need for knowledge management, but often delegate it to the IT and HR departments without linking it to corporate strategy, often thereby wasting both resources and the strategic options their firm’s knowledge could generate.
The problem is that most current knowledge management efforts merely inventory the company’s knowledge, without parsing out the knowledge that is strategically relevant. Strategic management of knowledge focuses only on those knowledge assets that are critical to your firm’s competitive performance — from the tacit expertise of key individuals right through to explicit company-wide general principles. In our simplified format, knowledge assets map along two dimensions. Figure 1: Map A Codification: Diffusion: BIOS: Ian C. News: The Blog. I am at a loss: I have a scientific proof that can save everyone’s life but no one listens. The proof implies that CERN — the European Research Council – currently attempts to shrink the earth to 2 cm in a runaway process consummated in about 5 years’ time and effective with a probability of about 8 percent, if the LHC experiment is not stopped immediately. The scientific safety conference already demanded three years ago got recently requested from the German government by a Cologne court.
But the globe’s media keep silent (except for the tiny “ET-Journal,” Volume 16, pages 58–59, 2011). Maybe the court and the present writer are both crazy? But even if you assume this, is the danger not appreciably reduced thereby as long as the offered proof stays unaddressed. Can one of my readers name a scientist ready to shoulder the job of disproving my result (so far a few tried but none remained in the ring)? Or advise me how to get the benefit of the doubt of the planet at large?