Filosofitis Ideaclips

Entre el weblogging individual y el software social. La versión, micro-, mini-, para-, hiper- del grandulón textual

Jan 18
How A Flipped Classroom Actually Works [Interview] (via How A Flipped Classroom Actually Works [Interview] | Edudemic)

How A Flipped Classroom Actually Works [Interview] (via How A Flipped Classroom Actually Works [Interview] | Edudemic)


Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA. The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. (via End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google)

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA. The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. (via End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google)


A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. (via Amazon.com: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction eBook: Brian Boyd: Kindle Store)

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. (via Amazon.com: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction eBook: Brian Boyd: Kindle Store)


Jan 17

Jan 16
Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic (via Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic | Royal Pingdom)

Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic (via Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic | Royal Pingdom)


Jan 15
Ideal para los fanáticos de la red social y para los que gusten de la militancia 2.0. Y, sobre todo, de quienes que no tengan interés alguno en profesar ese concepto que la intelectual estadounidense Naomi Klein proclamó hace algunos años, aquello del No-Logo. (via Presentan la cama de Facebook)

Ideal para los fanáticos de la red social y para los que gusten de la militancia 2.0. Y, sobre todo, de quienes que no tengan interés alguno en profesar ese concepto que la intelectual estadounidense Naomi Klein proclamó hace algunos años, aquello del No-Logo. (via Presentan la cama de Facebook)


Jan 11

In that book by Walter Isaacson, Mr. Jobs told him that he wanted to transform the textbook market by hiring prominent textbook writers to create electronic versions of them for the iPad. Mr. Jobs told the author that he believed Apple could get around state certification processes for textbooks by making them free. (via Apple Aims to Take On the Textbook Market - NYTimes.com)

In that book by Walter Isaacson, Mr. Jobs told him that he wanted to transform the textbook market by hiring prominent textbook writers to create electronic versions of them for the iPad. Mr. Jobs told the author that he believed Apple could get around state certification processes for textbooks by making them free. (via Apple Aims to Take On the Textbook Market - NYTimes.com)


Google Social Search Update (by Google) Take a look at our updates to Google Social Search, which we launched in 2009. Our new improvements enable you to get even more information from people you are connected to, whether they’re publishing on Twitter, Flickr, Blogger or other publicly available sites. When you sign in to your Google Account, you can get ideas and recommendations from people you trust, right in your search results. Go try it out for yourself.


Jan 9