What are you learning?
Just a little demo of what the LinkedIn Lab Connection Timeline shows you. A visual representation of who your connections are from different phases in your life.
Here’s How:
Enjoy!
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This is a delightful exercise that everyone seems to love. WolframAlpha will provide you with an extremely detailed analysis of your own Facebook data including visualizations, world clouds, graphs, and more.
Here’s how:
Note: Sometimes the report seems to stall after 100% of the data is analyzed. If this happens, simply repeat steps 1-3. The second time, the report seems to load just fine.
Enjoy!
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Khan Academy Idaho is a grant-funded initiative to help K-12 teachers in Idaho integrate digital devices and the Khan Academy program into their math classrooms. Yesterday I gave a keynote there called “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” about (1) the challenges facing math educators and (2) Data Sleuthing, a way to encourage math curiosity and data literacy in students.
Resources from this presentation:
Homework from the Presentation
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The single most important tool I’ve found for improving Digital Literacy is Wolfram Alpha. At your fingertips, whether on your phone, tablet, or laptop, you have access to all the world’s readily available data. All you have to do is ask. The best thing I can do to improve data literacy is to teach students (and other adults I know) to question the facts they are being quoted as gospel. Here are a bunch of searches I’ve done recently to verify or refute data someone has told me in conversation.
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For the last three weeks, in preparation for a presentation, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Future of Working. Not the Future of Careers per se, but the future of working and work-life – what will it be like to work in the year 2020?
So after much thinking (usually while doing mundane tasks like weeding gardens and sanding the house), discussions with other futurists, reading, and consideration of the outside pressures on the workplace and work-life, I’ve built a new presentation on the Future of Working. I do have an audio transcript, which I hope to have my assistant transcribe soon, but for now you can get the general gist of what was discussed by clicking through the Prezi.
The illustration for this Prezi is really incredibly impressive (kudos to my illustrator, Mat Moore). The setting is an office/industrial/agricultural complex, except the whole complex is built from computer parts. We’ve worked together on these illustrated Prezis for years now and Mat leaves me blank spaces to incorporate the “slides” in the presentation, as you see in the image below.
Mat leaves open spaces in the illustrations for me to drop in photos and frames on the path of the presentation. Click on the image to enlarge it.
You won’t notice the incredible level of detail in this illustration until you view the zooms during the presentation. He’s really put in some incredibly tiny details like streetlights and trees. I think I’ll have to print a poster-size version just to find all the easter egg details in this one.
Note the details like trees and street lights that Mat has drawn into the illustration. Click on the image to enlarge it.
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