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Nicole Solis Snider's avatarGigaom

iPad in schoolIn 1985, when Bruce Springsteen wrote “We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school,” he was talking about the lure of whatever might be waiting outside every classroom around the world. That  youthful feeling of the world passing you by — the things you were missing as you sat in a classroom day after day — is an age-old challenge for educators. It’s one that’s about to be subjected to an even greater assault as the digital generation moves deeper into education.

The Internet was the first volley on the way a generation learned. Students no longer had to trudge to the library to research a topic. The encyclopedias of our parents’ generation were tossed into recycling bins, and a combination of Google (s goog) and Wikipedia was all students needed to complete even the most ambitious assignments. Even with all their merit — the…

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Gene Vincent records “Be-Bop-A-Lula”; This Day in History

“When a music critic wants to indicate that a song lacks lyrical sophistication, he or she will often refer to its lyrics as being of the “moon in June” sort. It’s a label left over from the Tin Pan Alley era, when even great composers like Irving Berlin churned out a hundred uninspired Moon/June tunes for every highly original classic like “Blues Skies” or “Puttin’ On The Ritz.” If rock and roll has an equivalent in the area of clichéd lyrics, it is probably “Baby” and “Maybe”—a rhyming pair made most famous in the smoldering early-rock classic “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” which was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, by the rockabilly legend Gene Vincent on this day in 1956.” via Gene Vincent records “Be-Bop-A-Lula” — History.com This Day in History — 5/4/1956.

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…on Discovering Your Own Worth

“You alone are the judge of your worth, and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.” ~ Deepak Chopra via Today’s Quotes: Deepak Chopra Discover Your Own Worth!.

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…on Fear

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” ~ Napoleon Hill via Today’s Quotes: Deepak Chopra Discover Your Own Worth!.

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Don’t Give Up…

…has been one of my favorite love song duets since 1986 when the album first came out. I love the ‘dialogue’ between the two lovers. Here are both versions…

Which one do you like better? I think I’m partial to the first…

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Another stunning photo from Pops Digital via Embrace of the Sun.

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How to catch a cop…

funny-cops-donuts-police-men

via How to catch a cop….

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WWIII propaganda posters – Holy Kaw!.

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More good stuff, Marie! Thanks for feeding my blog…

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Coping With Email Overload

'personal news aggregation', e1evation, llc, Personal Digital CoachingHere’s an excerpt from a post I did yesterday over at my business blog…

“Tools without thought or tactics are worthless so I try to remind myself that email is best used as a tool for ‘just in time’ information – information that affects relationships and revenue. All your ‘just in case’ information belongs in a virtual newspaper like Google Reader. Think of how much lighter your email load would be if you didn’t let newsletters and other detritus in? How often have you started down the path to Inbox Zero and then been waylaid by a Victoria’s Secret or Cabella’s catalog in your inbox. There’s a time and a place for that; the time is your ‘personal news aggregation’ time and the place is Google Reader. My advice? Use Gmail for email with a touch of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero and David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ and you’ll be an INBOX HERO in no time!

If you’re looking for help in this area, try my online book on ‘personal news aggregation’ or how to create your own personal news agency. You can register free at http://e1evation.com/pna. Here are two recent lunch and learns I did on the topic of Gmail and Google Reader as well…” via Coping With Email Overload | e1evation.

If you’re overwhelmed by email, check it out…

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I love this feature! Thanks…

Steve Prestegard's avatarSteve Prestegard.com: The Presteblog

The number one album today in 1975 was “Chicago VIII”:

The number one single that day:

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Whenever someone calls me ugly…

The Meta Picture via Whenever someone calls me ugly….

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What I’ve Learned About Learning

‘We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.’ ~ Lloyd Alexander via » What I’ve Learned About Learning :zenhabits.

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“If I wanted America to fail”

“If I wanted America to fail” – TV – YouTube.

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Oxymoron of the day

“Trained cat”

h/t Steve Boney…

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Happy for me…

…is sitting in the afternoon sun with a glass of Blue Moon and my favorite kitty on my lap!

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This Day in History; James Brown is born…

“”Soul Brother #1,”The Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,” “Sex Machine,” “The Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk.” These are some of the names by which the world would eventually know James Joseph Brown, Jr., the revolutionary musical figure who was born on this day in 1933. The story Brown himself would often tell is that he appeared stillborn when he first came into the world, but that an aunt attending his birth managed to breathe life into him.

Long before he changed the course of 20th-century popular music and crowned himself “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” little James Brown may well have been the hardest working boy in Augusta, Georgia, where he was sent to live with his Aunt Honey Washington at the age of six. He’d spent the previous several years with his father, James, Sr., who scraped out a meager living selling pine tar to the local turpentine factory in the woods of Barnwell County, South Carolina, just down the Savannah River from Augusta. James’s mother had left with another man when James was only four, and while Aunt Honey would play something of a maternal role for James, the fact that she ran a brothel and sold moonshine for a living made for anything but a traditional upbringing.” via James Brown is born — History.com This Day in History — 5/3/1933.

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Be Love!

Visual Inspiration: Be Love!.

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…on Growth!

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” ~ Abraham Maslow via Today’s Quotes: Go FORWARD Towards Growth!.

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…on Pruning

“Rosebushes and other plants produce more buds than the plant can sustain.  The plant has enough life and resources to feed and nurture only so many buds to their full potential; it can’t bring all of them to full bloom.  In order for the best to thrive, a certain number of buds have to go.  The caretaker constantly examines the bush to see which buds are worthy of the plant’s limited fuel and support and cuts the others away.  He prunes them.  Takes them away, never to return.  He ends their role in the life of the bush and puts an end to the bush’s having to divert resources to them.

“In doing so, the gardener frees those needed resources so the plant can direct them to the buds with the greatest potential to become mature roses.  Those buds get the best that the bush has to offer, and they thrive and grow to fullness.  But the rosebush could not do this without pruning.  It is a necessity of life for rosebushes.  Without endings, you don’t get the best roses.” -Henry Cloud, as excerpted from Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward via Anderson Layman’s Blog: On Pruning……………...

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…on Making a Living

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill via Tiny Wisdom: What We Want to Give | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

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