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Authors@Google: Howard Rheingold - A conversation about Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (55min video)

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"On April 11, 2012 Howard Rheingold joined Mamie Rheingold in a conversation about his latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online.

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully."

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow

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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."

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The Most Astounding Fact

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Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.

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Robert Trivers: Why Do We Deceive Ourselves? (The research behind Lie To Me)

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Robert L. Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers is most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratiodetermination, and parent-offspring conflict. Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception and intragenomic conflict.

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Howard Rheingold's talk on a new culture of learning (Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media Jan 23/12)

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Howard recounts some of his early work as an 'Electronic Ethnologist', dispels the myth of the digital native, and describes his latest experiments combining technology and pedagogy in participatory media. Drawing from master theorist of critical pedagogy, Paulo Friere, Howard speaks about scaling the banking model of education towards a new "Peeragogy".

See more about Howard's latest adventures at: http://www.rheingold.com/university

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Humanity 4.0

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WELCOME TO THE CONVERSATION HUMANITY NEEDS TO HAVE.

This is a conversation about what we can learn from the basic pattern of all living systems. It seems that this pattern offers important clues about the future of humanity.

Start with the slideshow to the right to get the context for the conversation. And then jump into whichever topic you're most passionate about.

Feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or offers of help! :-) May the conversation be full of life. - Michelle Holliday

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Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (First Lecture, Part 1 of 7)

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This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

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New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy | Centre for a New American Dream

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This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor

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The Soulful Company | Changing the DNA of organizations to both tap and feed the soul | TEDxRainier - Gideon Rosenblatt

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Gideon Rosenblatt explores how companies can be good for the soul -- for customers, employees, and for keeping the bottom line aligned with the greater good.

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Elevate

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Elevate is an ever-expanding band of innovators and evolutionaries crafting creative solutions that unleash human potential. Our initiatives include PlayItFWD, a revolutionary viral distribution platform for film and media; Elevate Films, a full-service production company focused on transformational film; Elevate Film Festival, the world's first international socially conscious filmmaking competition; theXperience, a new genre of live entertainment designed to elevate consciousness; and Elevate Presents, a live event production/innovation initiative.

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The WaySeer Manifesto

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ATTENTION: All you rule-breakers, you misfits & troublemakers, all you free-spirits & pioneers... Everything the establishment has told you is wrong with you - is actually what's right with you...

Go here: http://WayseerManifesto.com Get it on iTunes: http://bit.ly/eM2jy4 Friend us at http://facebook.com/Wayseers

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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain - New insights on right vs left brain activity and the effects on human behaviour, culture and society

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In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA's free public events programme. To view the full lecture, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUHxC4wiWk

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Jeremy Rifkin, 'The Third Industrial Revolution' How lateral power is transforming energy, the economy, and the world

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Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!

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Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And then things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too.

OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

You'll be on y our way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And IF you go in, should you turn left or right... or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or the waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for the wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.

NO! That's not for you!

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

With banner flip-flapping, once more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy!

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't.

I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.

On and on you will hike, And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never foget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, You're off the Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

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Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!" - YouTube

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Quote from 5:49-6:27 "...Obama functioned as a brand in the same way that people of colour or HIV-positive models were used by Benetton and Calvin Klein -- to associate their products with a risque lifestyle and progressive politics. But, as with a function of all brands, we confused a brand with an experience. Obama won Advertising Age's top annual award "marketer of the year" because the professionals knew precisely what he'd done -- he beat Nike, Apple, Zyppos. And that's what he was -- you know, to quote Cornel West, he became essentially a black mascot for Wall Street".

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Mimi Ito: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online

"We can debate outcomes of engagement all we want, but the thing that's really important, I think, to have on the public agenda is really the question of 'Who is getting access to the kinds of experiences that are productive and engaging, and who is not?' And what are the factors contributing to that?"

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Mimi Ito is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and serves as Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub in the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute.

This past October, Ito spoke at the New School's biennial conference series, The Politics of Digital Culture. In her talk, "Learning with Social and Mobile Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online", she examines the diversity of youth experience with new media and how it relates to questions of equity, access, and learning opportunities.

"We can debate outcomes of engagement all we want, but the thing that's really important, I think, to have on the public agenda is really the question of 'Who is getting access to the kinds of experiences that are productive and engaging, and who is not?' And what are the factors contributing to that?" (3:30)

"I think there's still a persistent perception among parents and teachers that activities like gaming and social media use are a waste of time and a distraction from learning, rather than something that is inherently a support for productive forms of learning." (6:25)

"It's often profoundly uncool to care deeply about something [...] kids have mechanisms for hiding these kinds of identities[...] Now, the online world suddenly offers an opportunity for kids to affiliate and connect with others who share these passionate interests in a way that's not bound by the social status hierarchies of high school." (12:46)

"Now what was extremely interesting about Clarissa that made her different from [...] almost all of the kids who we talked to as part of our study was she was able to take the work she did in the role-playing world and make it visible and consequential, in a positive way, to the adult-facing world." (15:33)

"We're doing work right now in trying to develop some alternative assessments, ways of thinking about dispositions, metacognitive capacities, preparation for future learning [...] that can really enable us to make an argument why it's not domain-specific knowledge that we should be looking at as much as an underlying disposition for learning and capacity for future learning that's the most important outcome." (22:27)

"Our theory of change, it's really centered on the fact that--in the best circumstances--new technology can really lower the barriers of access to connected learning experiences. That it can help really connect the dots between these diverse spheres of learning that young people navigate through in their everyday lives." (27:09)

Video Credit: MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit (http://mobilityshifts.org)

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What the Mayan Elders are Saying About 2012 by Carlos Barrios

Carlos Barrios: "Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It's just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed."

"We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes."

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