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5 Things Adults Can Learn from Children. | Rebelle Society
Instead of facilitating my obvious desire to learn and be challenged, my teachers tried to control me and stuff me into a box. As a result, by the end of my time in organized education, I couldn’t stand school and I looked at authority figures as cowards instead of role models.
Educators spend a lot of time being stifled by limited resources in their classrooms. They also don’t feel like they get the respect they deserve from their students. And the entire education system reeks of missed opportunities.
We have to understand, kids are smarter than us. We can’t teach them the same way we used to. They are now the ones teaching us. And if we can get over our pride and pay attention to what’s in front of us, we can give them just the right push to help shape the future of powerful young leaders.
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
~ Margaret Mead
Here are 5 things I learned from my students that have made me a better person and a much better educator.
via 5 Things Adults Can Learn from Children. | Rebelle Society.
Tall storeys: Lucinda Grange’s daredevil photography | Art and design | theguardian.com
This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood – Wired Science
Theranos requires only a pinprick and a drop of blood. With that they can perform hundreds of tests, from standard cholesterol checks to sophisticated genetic analyses. The results are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than conventional methods. The implications are mind-blowing. With inexpensive and easy access to the information running through their veins, people will have an unprecedented window on their own health. And a new generation of diagnostic tests could allow them to head off serious afflictions from cancer to diabetes to heart disease. None of this would work if Theranos hadn’t figured out how to make testing transparent and inexpensive. The company plans to charge less than 50 percent of the standard Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates. And unlike the rest of the testing industry, Theranos lists its prices on its website: blood typing, $2.05; cholesterol, $2.99; iron, $4.45. If all tests in the US were performed at those kinds of prices, the company says, it could save Medicare $98 billion and Medicaid $104 billion over the next decade.
via This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood – Wired Science.
The Academic Feminist: Melanie Klein on Yoga and Feminism
1) You credit feminism and yoga with being the two main influences of your work. Can you describe how the two are linked for you?
Ultimately, for me, they’re both equally about raising consciousness, wiping the fog from the mirror, seeing the world (including ourselves) through fresh eyes, thereby moving in the world from an authentic and grounded place. And, in the end, this means we’re capable of being a more effective agent for social change, whether you’re making changes in your home, the workplace, the media or politics.
Feminism provided the intellectual and ideological framework to recognize, deconstruct, analyse and critique the structured inequality that is the hallmark of the system of patriarchy. That veil was lifted when I found feminism and my first mentor, a Radical Marxist feminist who is now well into her eighties. One of my biggest “a-ha” or “click” moments is when I realized, “It’s not me! It’s patriarchy.”
via The Academic Feminist: Melanie Klein on Yoga and Feminism.
Northwestern University offers new online graduate degree in Global Health | Vaccine News Daily
The Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies recently announced it will partner with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Global Health to offer students a new graduate program in Global Health.
The new program will offer graduate students the option to earn a Master of Science in Global Health degree beginning fall 2014. It is the only program of its kind available online and was developed to meet emerging global health threats.
The new program seeks to empower leaders in global healthcare to address emerging health threats, including the emergence of almost 40 new infectious diseases since 1973 and the re-emergence of other diseases, such as malaria. The program sets out to fight emerging health threats globally through increased healthcare technology and expertise.
The new program, which includes 12 online courses, was created to empower healthcare professionals to address growing global health concerns. Multidisciplinary courses are available to prepare students to improve healthcare systems and address global health concerns by evaluating the results of health program initiatives.
“Graduates of the MS in Global Health program will be prepared to identify needs, navigate complex political, sociological and regulatory environments and deliver impactful health care solutions,” Director of the Center for Global Health and the John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases at Feinberg Robert Murphy said.
via Northwestern University offers new online graduate degree in Global Health | Vaccine News Daily.
Tim’s El Salvador Blog: News drone covered El Salvador election
What’s that buzzing I hear as I line up to vote for president? Last week El Salvador’s La Prensa Grafica newspaper and media outlet used a remote drone-mounted camera to provide scenes from El Salvador’s elections. As reported on one website:
During El Salvador’s recent presidential elections, Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica found a unique angle from the skies. LPG used a quadcopter to capture scenes on voting day as voters flocked to the polls in the Central American country. It’s fascinating to see drones find more acceptance in journalism, but the story also serves to highlight the fact that US journalists currently are barred from doing the same thing.
via Tim’s El Salvador Blog: News drone covered El Salvador election.
Head Shots | Work | Jon Burgerman
An ongoing series of interventions staged in public against the backdrop of advertising panels.
The performances are photographed, digitially added to and then documented and shared online.
The Positive Futures Guide
Creating and sustaining the Positive Future you desire may well begin right here…
I have created the Positive Futures Guide to assist you in creating & sustaining a positive future for yourself, your family, organization, community, or the issue that fires your passion.
Ned Hamson (that’s me stuck into the photo above): Activist, Author, Researcher, Innovator, and Believer in creating Positive Futures Now is your Chief Guide here.
You may “guide” yourself with the content here at no charge. I’m offering these 30 plus years of experience creating and researching positive futures that “work and stick” to you as “payback” to the world for what thousands of people, animals and the earth taught me.
The practical “how to” tools and examples of how these tools, processes and methods have worked for others are all free for individual use. If you need, or want help, for-fee services are readily available here too.
Please see the articles matrix below to begin your journey.
Lebanese inventor makes “alive” app for war-torn regions | Green Prophet
“I’m alive.” I’ve made that call, maybe you have too. That surreal statement instantly erases panic in whomever’s on the other end of the line. It reconstructs a momentarily unglued world.
When I made that call, mobile phones were in their infancy, and landlines were choked by overloaded phone networks. Now a Lebanese woman has developed an app to let you get that most urgent message out loud and clear, “Hey, I am alive!”
Bombings are a frequent reality in Lebanon, and Syria, and Egypt, and Iraq. Sandra Hassan, a Lebanese-born graduate student studying abroad in Paris heard about a car bomb in a Beirut suburb; and the idea was hatched.
“It was a little bit frustrating that, in Lebanon at least, we’re living in a situation that makes such an application necessary or useful,” Hassan told National Public Radio in a recent interview. “My way to express that frustration was to publish this app, kind of as a statement against what was happening, a statement of discontent if you will.”
Lebanon was bombed several times in January, and Hassan said it was stressful trying to contact family and friends to check on their safety. So this student of public health decided to develop an app that allows users to quickly get the message out. With one click, using the internet and avoiding potentially disrupted phone networks, they can instantly tweet the message: “I am still alive!” using with the hashtags #Lebanon and #LatestBombing.
The app is based on Twitter, but Hassan plans updates so that it is compatible with Facebook and could work like an instant messaging independent of social media; a single click to update everyone who wants proof that you are okay.
via Lebanese inventor makes “alive” app for war-torn regions | Green Prophet.
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