fighting a very public battle over the place of retrograde, hateful views within a community driven by a shallow ideal of what free speech should be

Randian individual.

Generally speaking, as employment has moved from manufacturing to service, work has become contingent, “casualized,” “adjunctified.” It has become femininized.

Since 2010, the top five fastest growing occupations have been in the service sector, and four of these jobs have a median wage of $21,000 a year or less.

At the same time as the drop in manufacturing, the US economy has seen an explosion in jobs in the service sector, which now amounts to 84% of employment in the country.

We want education to run more like a business; we want education to run more like a machine.

Much of the history of education technology, indeed the history of education itself, in the twentieth century onward involves this push for “efficiency.”

Linda Nguyen, Director of Civic Engagement for the Alliance for Children and Families, told us in a stakeholder interview, “I don’t know if there’s a lack of [sources for political information]. It’s more about who can you trust? Who are the trusted sources and how are we supporting those trusted sources?”

Youth will need digital media literacy skills to critically engage with all the information (and misinformation) they can now find online, to seek out a range of perspectives, and to be thoughtful about the content they circulate and create.42

Youth will need digital media literacy skills to critically engage with all the information (and misinformation) they can now find online, to seek out a range of perspectives, and to be thoughtful about the content they circulate and create.

We see great value in connecting social media with the civics curriculum so that the attributes of digital interaction—spontaneity, access, and assertion of political voice—are guided by the deliberative principles of formal instruction.

Second, youth engagement in participatory politics is more equitably distributed by race and income than are youth voting or adult participation

Drawing on social media, youth can be actively engaged in consuming, circulating, discussing, curating, and producing civic and political content.

Actions might include writing or commenting on a blog about a social issue or circulating information or perspectives via social media.

4. A powerful role for social media

3. An increasingly diverse youth population

high-quality civic education is sometimes found to provide the greatest benefits to least advantaged students.18

Civic education cannot be just a matter of teaching and persuading young people to participate in the existing system; it must acknowledge deep-seated and understandable critiques of politics.

2. Growing inequality of civic opportunities

1. Deep polarization and ideological conflict

oung people do not automatically acquire the skills, knowledge, motivations, and values necessary to contribute to the republic; they must be educated and encouraged.

Research for the Commission was funded by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the Youth Engagement Fund.

Strengthen standards and curricula for digital media literacy and coordinate digital media literacy and civic education.

Emphasize youth conducting community research and producing local journalism, with the twin goals of enhancing students’ communications skills and making a contribution to the community in light of the severe gap in professional reporting.

Implement state standards for civics that focus on developing advanced civic skills, such as deliberation and collaboration, rather than memorizing facts.

Our research, like many other studies, finds that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are far less likely to be informed and to vote.

One of my favorite things on the Internet is a site called Listen to Wikipedia, which produces a soothing aleatory succession of chimes and sonorous strings, each of which stands for a Wikipedia edit being made in real-time.

ComMentor is an architecture that supports general annotation services along these lines

CoNoter [2] and NCSA's HyperNews [6] are examples of annotation tools based on a model of annotation as public or work group commentary

although personal annotations with content (e.g. notes) occur infrequently on paper they are far more likely to form the basis of on-line commentary.

Out of a total of 602 annotations,

In addition to holding on-line discussions in WebAnn

What the police don’t have is much of a money trail, adding credence to the hackers’ claim that they were coerced.

kul left for Turkey, too. He recently posted a Facebook picture of himself on a jet ski.

There was only one condition of the release: Van De Moere had to give Okul an intensive training session on Linux, the operating system on which Metasploit, the hacking software, is based.

The night before the meeting, they practiced quick-drawing the Tasers in front of a mirror.

he “man with the mustache”

Adibelli came to the attention of Dutch authorities in the fall of 2011, when his apartment in Rotterdam was burglarized

Building pwnies isn’t itself a crime; anyone can buy a version on the Internet. As long as they were only supplying a device and not operating it for whatever scheme Adibelli and Okul had in mind, the pair concluded they wouldn’t be breaking the law.

By the time they understood what they were involved in, they were already implicated.

Maertens had another gig, occasionally giving classes on hacking techniques to clients that included the Belgian government’s computer crime squad.

Pronounced pony, the name is a play on the hacker slang of “pwning,” or owning, someone else’s device.

allegedly shows how mobsters and hackers teamed up to commit sophisticated crime, manipulating global logistical and transportation networks for huge gain.

As the minutes ticked by, Van De Moere could hardly believe what he was doing. He didn’t think of himself as a criminal

Q: So how do you see science publishing developing over the next 10 years?

"OK, we will turn the current model upside down and offer the research articles free to readers and charge for services to authors. We will take their papers, mark them up, find referees to review them, and generally act as an intermediary." Of course, the charges are not really to authors personally, but rather to the funders of the research or the institutions where the authors work. We soon realized that such a business model could be very effective.

Q: A classic case of listening to your customers and providing what they needed

with the arrival of the Web I became very interested in the idea of developing a community for biologists. So we sold the Current Opinion medical journals to Thomson but kept the biology ones and, in 1996, launched BioMedNet. The aim was to create an online publisher built around a community.

We started Medi-Cine with very little money by getting early commissions from pharmaceutical companies for educational films for doctors. When we started Gower, we went to visit drug companies, told them we were going to make a fantastic book, and showed them a few sample pages. We then sold the books to them a chapter at a time, asking them to pay one-third in advance for each chapter. So the whole thing was virtually self-financing. In time it also became very successful.

Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, Tracz has become a powerful advocate for open access. He was a key player in the development of PubMed Central, NIH's free literature repository, and, in 1998, he founded the first open access publisher, BioMed Central.

“We believe that we are trying to change science publishing to science services.”

users can see the names of people who recommend an F1000Prime article and why they did so.”

Faculty who contribute to F1000 are unpaid, explains Tracz, but they gain access to the top literature in their fields as well as to F1000 and “over time membership became quite a prestigious thing to have…and they do it because they think it’s a benefit to the community.”

he and other scientists decided to create something similar for the Internet age, going about it by finding the top faculty in the world in “big subjects”—cardiology, cell biology, immunology, for example—and asking each one to name the top ten categories in the relevant subject area and the ten best experts in those areas.

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more important is establishing a culture that is conducive to broad collaboration and sharing.

social technology is not part of their “day jobs,” employees will not participate for long

it was often the case that users discovered other valuable functions for these technologies

it was often the case that users discovered other valuable functions for these technologies.

e found that in successful organizations, role-modeling and vocal support of leaders also were important catalysts

how does a particular organization create a self-reinforcing cycle of adoption?

E-learning. Social networking technology has sprouted numerous e-learning options. Today’s students can have teacher-led, self-study, and blended instruction (classroom and online). In classrooms around the world, teachers post assignments on community portals and create opportunities for collaborative learning, unhindered by time zones or geographic proximity.

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Two-thirds of the value creation opportunity afforded by social technologies lies in improving communications and collaboration within and across enterprises.

value creation. The most fundamental is to endow social interactions with the speed, scale, and economics of the Internet. Social technologies also provide a means for any participant to publish, share, and consume content within a group.

The key social media channels that have been considered for this report are Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook and y ouTube.

Social media creates highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. 9

In the U.S., interest in specific diseases receives the greatest amount of attention in social media relating to healthcare,

Use of social networking sites has grown from 8% of all adults online in 2005, to 67% in late 2012 and up to 72% of U.S. adults online in May 2013. 1

owever, in general, the industry needs to become less risk averse to new engagements with stakeholders to remain relevant in the overall healthcare discussion.

Mid-sized, specialized and consumer care companies are leading the change from uni-directional broadcasting of information to an engaging and relationship-orientated online conversation.

The things we invest in have to actually work.”

Ultimately, the decision to move forward with a deal takes into account the social impact of an investment and its economic viability.

Though the foundation’s biggest area of focus has been in health care, it has used program-related investments in other areas, like education, agriculture and financial services for the poor.

they have direct access to Mr. Gates, who looks over every deal.

Julie Sunderland, who heads the program-related investments, which is run independently of the foundation’s $43.5 billion endowment.

the Gates Foundation’s investment interests are primarily in the private sector.

The foundation, which has distributed billions of dollars in grants to improve health and living conditions in developing countries, is increasingly expanding its tool kit, using some of its capital to invest directly in companies that could help advance its goals

oncept of individual autonomy

oncept of individual autonomy.

the right to marry is fundamental because it supports a two-person union unlike any other in its importance to th e committed individuals.

it safeguards children and families and thus draws meaning from related rights of childrearing, procreation, and education.

Changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations

"The fundamental liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices defining personal opinions and beliefs," a summary of the opinion stated.

The first time, in June 2013, the high court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), allowing the US government to recognize same-sex marriages in states where they were already legal.

The Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage is legal nationwide,

In 2009, the new CIO of Microsoft, Tony Scott, argued that the phrase "dogfooding" was unappealing and should be replaced by "icecreaming", with the aim of developing products as "ice cream that our customers want to consume."[30

In 2007, the CIO of Pegasystems said that she uses the alternate phrase "drinking our own champagne".

Forcing those who design products to actually use and rely on them is often thought to improve quality and usability, but software developers may be blind to usability and may have knowledge to make software work that an end user will lack.

In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled "Eating our own Dogfood", challenging him to increase internal usage of the company's product.

in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs.

The risks of public dogfooding, specifically that a company may have difficulties using its own products, may reduce the frequency of publicized dogfooding

employees to test their company's products in real-life scenarios,[3][5] which gives management a sense of how the product might be used

InfoWorld commented that this needs to be transparent and honest:

dogfooding can act as a kind of testimonial advertising

Dogfooding can be a way for a company to demonstrate confidence in its own products.

Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to validate the quality and capabilities of the product.[1]

most teachers lack the curriculum and instructional support they feel they need to teach the standards effectively.

States are also concerned about whether they have the technological infrastructure needed to administer the computer-based assessments

Many state officials believe that the value of the information they receive from the consortia assessments is worth the additional investment, but some are concerned about spending more than they currently do for testing;

The assessments are still a work in progress, and it is unclear what they will look like when they are unveiled in the 2014–15 school year.

Business leaders also remain strong supporters of the CCSS.

Because so many states will be using the same standards for the first time, nonprofit organizations, membership groups, and private vendors have larger markets than ever before for their products and are working to produce the best materials. For example, Student Achievement Partners, a New York City–based organization created by the lead writers of the CCSS, has received an $18 million grant from the GE Foundation to create tools for teachers and provide support for them in using the tools.

Cost- e ffective Assessments Some of the most important challenges involve the assessments that are now being developed to measure student performance against the standards.

1. N EW D ESIGNS : I NNOVATION IN C LASSROOM , S CHOOL , C OLLEGE , AND S YSTEM D ESIGN This program seeks innovative designs that use people, time, money, and technology differently in secondary and higher education.