Annotation System-s typically allow any reader/user to attach a comment (structured or not) to any web object-node they find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/13: Moving On. Can life return fully to normal? Yes. (more)

Hmm, how to define? Plenty of crazy people are happy... (cf well-being) (more)

Substance or action that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness. (more)

2001 Manifesto behind Agile Software Development: ...we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools... http://agilemanifesto.org/ (more)

No More Time on the Couch: The Rise of Digital Mental Health Therapeutics. She was referred to a mental health digital therapeutics company called Learn to Live (more)

battle for space/sovereignty between Israeli and Palestinian people (more)

see esp MeatballWiki:WebOfTrust - In Collaborative Hypermedia, users are ideally given a large degree of freedom to add, edit, and remove content. Overly strict security mechanisms not only discourage free cooperation, but can fail to protect communities from malicious users. Systems like the Wiki Wiki Web "replace technical security with social and political limits" (Clifford Adams). The Web Of Trust concept attempts to create technical security that is based on the social strength of the community. An important part of the WebOfTrust (and what makes it different from a TrustMetric but the distinction is not always clear) is that it measures trust for each user based on his or her choices. (more)

Coronavirus vaccines are coming for kids — but studies have to be finished first. In the early days of the pandemic, experts debated why so few children were becoming infected and why those who did so often had few or no symptoms. They rarely suffered serious illness. It is now clear that when tests were limited, children were simply not being counted. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children make up about 13 percent of U.S. infections. (more)

oops see (2021-04-25) Move To DigitalOcean

David Preston is trying to hack the High School system. Every generation thinks school can’t get any worse but somehow we manage... Forget the achievement gap and the union versus reform sideshow—even the best prep school curricula are designed for a world that no longer exists (if it ever did)... I taught at the country’s fourth-largest high school in LA. It had a year-round calendar with three tracks to accommodate five thousand students, most of whom didn’t carry books because they didn’t want to get jumped on the way home. (more)

Working on disrupting Educating Kids system. https://davidpreston.net/ (more)

Knowledge Is Power Program - Charter School model (more)

Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott.[2] The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman

Fred Wilson just saw Waiting For Superman, a movie making the case for Education Reform (Educating Kids). The Harlem Childrens Zone is at the center of the story. I Commented. (more)

Geoffrey Canada and his Harlem Childrens Zone Charter School-s have struggled with the same difficulties faced by other urban schools, even as they outspend them. After a rocky start several years ago typical of many new schools, Mr. Canada’s two charter schools, featured as unqualified successes in “WaitingForSuperman, ” the new documentary, again hit choppy waters this summer, when New York State made its exams harder to pass. A drop-off occurred, in spite of private donations that keep class sizes small, allow for an extended school day and an 11-month school year, and offer students incentives for good performance like trips to the Galápagos Islands or Disney World.

David Brooks profiles the research of Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie on the academic progress at the Harlem Childrens Zone Charter School-s. (more)

Charter School company started by Eva Moskowitz

hello-feel-train (more)

Jaron Pereira: Colliding spatial ideas. I don't beleive technology is arbitrary or commodotized. I think the choices we make around the tools and systems we use to build still exert an enormous force on what we build, and the values expressed through that (more)