Life in Links 2015-04-12

From Pinboard: bookmarks for johnjohnston for the most part.

Mediocre Failures | Disappointed Idealist A really powerful post on meeting all children’s needs rather than aiming at passing tests. As it has garnered >600 comments in 4 days I guess it strikes a few nerves. The 4 capacities never looked so good. As I tweeted, if you only read one education blog post…

Donald Clark Plan B: Sir Ken Robinson: ‘Creative’ with the truth? I’ve never shared the general enthusiasm for Sir Ken that is expressed by many of my colleagues and usually fell like a grump at the party when his name comes up. This makes me feel better.

I listened to episode 5 Today In Digital Education (TIDE) by Doug Belshaw and Dai Barnes this week and enjoyed it. The podcast seems to have sprung from the death of edtechroundup from way back in 2011. An enjoyable mix of EduTech and Tech.

Contributions and Connections. What Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart) found out about how influence and credibility circulate in academic Twitter. It feels pretty much relevant to the other two sectors too. Teachers lack the training in judging relevance and importance of their colleagues that in a central part of academia but still conversation is what counts.

A couple of posts about things slipping of the web: Where do you go for community? Preserving the Past. I am always interested in this. I recently adding some indieWeb plugins to this site to try and address the roll yr own vs community problem. The Roll Your Own is important in in addressing the preservation one. (posterous to wordpress for edutalk.info)

OUTSLIDE is pretty silly, a tumblr of strange slides scraped from slide share. I found this via the @katexic Katexic Clippings newsletter which is great.