"We are no longer a newspaper company."

To consider…

Jim Kirk, Editor-in-chief, Chicago Sun-Times Media Holdings, in a memo to staff. Crains. Sun-Times shuffles newsroom, stresses digital moves.

The ever important pivot that every traditional newspaper publisher is realizing: “We are a technology company that happens to publish a newspaper. We deliver content. And we will deliver content on many platforms and in ways that we haven’t yet fully considered.”

(via futurejournalismproject)

(via thelearningbrain)

Tags: now

"Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week and, if they’re serious about it, pre-season and post-season too. We never think, “Let’s have kids play baseball for eight weeks in seventh grade,” and then expect that in five years they can join the majors or even be on a college team. But for some reason we do this with civics. We say, “We’re going to have you do a penny harvest in fifth grade and a service learning project in tenth grade, and then we’ll teach you abstractly about government for a semester in twelfth grade.” Then our students enter the major leagues of citizenship, and we give them the vote and expect them to keep our country going. And that’s just crazy!"

Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)

Wow. Just, wow. Quote of the week.

(via motherjones)

(via motherjones)

Tags: education

inothernews:

Cell phone form factors before and after the iPhone.
(via @digeratii)

inothernews:

Cell phone form factors before and after the iPhone.

(via @digeratii)

(via kpcc)

Tags: conformity

infoneer-pulse:

If you think about it, printers are probably the worst-designed gadgets in our homes (unless you own the same awful Samsung Behold as I do). But despite the mythical advance of the paperless office, nobody has been able to kill them off. Until now. A new survey says that the iPad has finally doomed the printer, and is even saving trees.

The survey, conducted by Morgan Stanley Research and named “Tablet Demand and Disruption,” shows that as tablet adoption in business has grown, so the use of paper and printers has dropped. And for tablets here we can read “iPad,” as nothing else is really selling in significant numbers.

Morgan Stanley surveyed 700 tablet users in the U.S and found that 46 percent of them had reduced their printer use. It makes total sense. Even the Lady, a die-hard paper user, took her iPad to some official place or other last month to have them scan a barcode straight from the screen.

» via Cult of Mac

(via futuramb)

Tags: finally

Do you have a “Social Media Desk”?

newsweek:

npr:

The deadline for applications to the summer internship on the NPR Social Media Desk is February 15. If you’re interested in applying for this, or any other internship at NPR, check out the “Internships” page on NPR.org. —Wright

Awesome opportunity, people! Related: I’m going to start calling my work desk the Newsweek/Daily Beast Social Media Desk! It sounds so much more official.

Funny t-shirts aside, what’s the bigger story here about education and relevance?
laughingsquid:

School Pride

Funny t-shirts aside, what’s the bigger story here about education and relevance?

laughingsquid:

School Pride

thenextweb:

In New York City’s Times Square this past Tuesday, we saw one of the greatest marketing stunts of the holiday season; a live promotion for the release of The STAR WARS: The Old Republic game. Plainclothes warriors joined the battle among Jedi and Sith in the first ever lightsaber freeze mob duel to a crowd of over 100 awed fans. (via Star Wars Old Republic Flash Mob in Times Square)

futuramb:
This New App Turns Your iPad Into Your Classroom - Education - GOOD
What sets the Educreations whiteboard app apart from the Khan Academy and other virtual learning platforms is that anyone can create a lesson on a topic of their expertise. Teachers can tag their videos by subject area, then mark it as open to the public through the Educreations site or private to people who have the link.
This tool is an enabler for anyone to share their knowledge with others - an important next step when we are in the process of rewiring education and learning in our society.

futuramb:

This New App Turns Your iPad Into Your Classroom - Education - GOOD
What sets the Educreations whiteboard app apart from the Khan Academy and other virtual learning platforms is that anyone can create a lesson on a topic of their expertise. Teachers can tag their videos by subject area, then mark it as open to the public through the Educreations site or private to people who have the link.

This tool is an enabler for anyone to share their knowledge with others - an important next step when we are in the process of rewiring education and learning in our society.