Quivering in States.
  An inertia unleashed
in sinking wells
falling in  passive tells of
patterns in nothing
A coupling of
 fates stuck in
form
Am I a frozen in
 vibration
a sublimation
building on the Nadir 
of our soul?
Enthalpy of a system
seething in resistance
to acceleration
Vessels of
  swine
drowning
 demons 
in
  Legions
of voices
Now
lost rejoices
hoisted on
  befallen 
masks
 dripping
     in
gamesmanship 
 of Gadarene
idolatry

#smallpoems

Nymphs dance
sailing on knotted 
  trails beneath
loose soil
A bright truth caught
 in two worlds
in whimsical 
 syncretism.
Tied to roots
of floodplains
situated downwards
while singing
 mycorrhizal musicals
in tongues of
 Tangri
Nymphs of
Damp Mother Earth
Voice 
of the 
World
Tree

Dark Mare of Light

Light tossed on
 dark ways or
kinship burn in
fires crackling
a Birch's sting to
Heterodox thought lost
in the Who of the Tree
That flew, flew like birds
leaving eyes blinded
as knowledge shines White
 son arises
sixty days of slumber
shepherded by Spirit Owner
dwelling in towers of white
atop the Black rock
  First tree of Ogham
Chasing spirits at Samhain
 cradling saplings and
newborns alike
Green leaves drip 
   in Loki's luck
and Heimdal carries 
Odin's Staff
yet light cast hides
our  Old Gods hiding
 spirits in t
Dark Mare
 while truth shrivels
a sapling felled
 cinnamon bends on
winds of commerce
  and purses peppered
in roots to seed a
Channeling 
unimpeded flow
and so the they toiled
 As Alexandria has risen
Caravans fall and Caravel fly
on monsoon winds
while Sailors belt
Solomon's Songs
And so they toiled
 For the spice

Dramatis Personae

Finally got around to an election poem

#smallpoems

Dramatis Personae
sashays on branches
of writhing White Birch
  climbing
    past  Vetala's
vaulted stories
slender and serrated
 twigs lisp
  as Sedklin's Chickens
dance to tunes of people
 desolate in Villages  lost
And so
Yima begins to dig
while milk rivers and
kissel banks of the Potomac
overflow, 
leaves shrivel
ill disposed toward the living
  an unclean death for
Simek forgets
warnings of wise men
 and the Apprentice
grabs the Broom
 once Again

ia601504.us.archive.org/31/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.118920/2015.118920.Exchange-And-Power-In-Social-Life_text.pdf ia601504.us.archive.org

Blau, P. (1964). Exchange and power in social life. Routledge.

Panegryic Passages
 purging disasters
from surging sensory
 induced fools
who let loose
abuse and praise
chasing juice
as New Jacks
attack
attempts to
 circumvent 
monopolistic
 power
as the goose quill 
spllls and laws
take flight
we bound
sin in skin of
 Anser atavus
in placcid answers
to Gaggle at
Inconvenient Existence
chasing a  false
brilliance in  face of 
persistent resistance 
to spews of 
incomprehensible
 evidence cast
at distant audiences.
A subsistence on nonsense
in hope of another
remittance. A Pittance for pestilence
at Providence of
Incompetence
When
  first 
flower blossoms
begin to fall,
petals caught 
in a 
wind,
you hear the dog's
howl
  songs
  for
Galia spilled
 in pages of
tears
 Notes who soak
into  soul
so our beloveds
can frolick again

#smallpoems

What if
  my friend
Did not charter
a Funeral Dirge
 "Phenomology of Spirit"
But shipped
 a manuscript
with my OG intent
an etymology of
"Systems of Science"
would history be 
  different?

#smallpoems

Week Two in EDU106: Two Easy Hacks for College

Shape of a Story Week II

In week one we looked at the shape of popular media and myths. I then asked you to look at the text structure of common texts you come across in college

Here are two brief overviews to wrap up what we learned in week two. If you use text structure well in College you can cheat in every class:

  • skim any research article and identify the text levels of the headings. Organize notes this way
  • when you write , always prewrite, turn your outline levels into your heading levels

these two hacks will 100% raise your grade in all your class that require reading and writing #edu106

How is Quantitative Research Organized archive.org/details/q…

Intrpduction to Quantitative Research Text Structure archive.org/details/t…

Fellas
 develop
medicinal plates
of ceramic pfp
enhancements to allow
minimal enchantments
of liminal
 distate
in fates of info 
spaces dripped
 in
  subliminal
hymnals 
sung in
 criminal
tongues through
 imbecile debates
of truncated
  principles
Ostinatos of
emaciated
 play dough
  reshaped
to rape, and reap
hate
  in disinfo spaces
disgraces in 
    cadence
nested in
  cradle of
     tonality
serving
  festering ladles
dripping in pronounced
nonsense
  sipping on the
soup of my enemy

Calling #writingcommunity looking for few volunteer poets. Help raise $$ for @U24_gov_ua to get kids in #ukraine tablets for remote and bomb shelter learning

Do something like our poetry port: bit.ly/3CZ3lsm

Make a donation, get a poem and #nafo fella with day’s word

Hello friends

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East Haddam Chess ub with the kids

Russia Today Announces New Reality Show "Roses of Reunification

An example of political satire. Earlier online we were discussing the role of satire in online political speech. Someone was trying to discuss the focus of what people often refer to as the “demographic problem” in Russia.

This was my quick example I wrote as a satire News article


Earlier today a new sensation gripped Russia as citizens everywhere celebrated our historical foundation and the liberation of four Oblasts who faced Western Satanic demise choked by EU and NATO.

Roses of Reunification, a new hit Reality TV show from RT, matches Russian women with strong Russian men, formerly known as Ukrainians, liberated from Oblasts under attack in NATOs proxy war to destroy Russia.

Roses of Reunification presents men of strong Russian, formerly known as Ukrainian, stock to women of Russia. Women who lost cowardly weak men who became Western agents and abandoned Mother Russia.

Each week lucky Russians take a cruise over the Dniper River and have a luxury stay in a hotel. A Russian woman then gets a chance to interview three men for a chance at making Russian babies. Bonus shows can include a secret Russian child liberated from Ukraine as a party gift for the live studio audience.

Then legions of fans vote on VKonkante picking a couple who will make most beautiful of Russian babies. Winning couples marry in a Season Finale and get new property in our Glorious and historical Caucus Mountains. A luxury property recently freed up by fodder left in Donestk.

Lady GreyFoam, in this exclusive report, has learned Roses of Reunification has support at the highest levels of Government.

The hit show has full backing as a long term goal to address Western schemes at depopulating Russia. "Due to influence of foreigners our women have 0.4 babies to Finland's 0.8 babies," noted Olga Golodets, Chairman Commission on Minors’ Affairs and Protection of Their Rights. She continued, "The Ministory of Defense can plan to equip a 0.8 man. Most Russian conscripts have lost some kind of body part, but we need more than a 0.4 soldier."

Roses of Unification was launched as a brainchild of the 143 Service, a specialized unit in the Intelligence Information and Spermatic Glorification through Unification of the Federal Security Services of the Russian Federation. The unit now lead by Colonel General Segery Beseda deals with demgographic challenges in Russian Federation.

"We had so many weak men turn their back on Russia. When mobilsation was announced cowards fled to our borders. Now we have liberated strong Russian bears held captive by Kiev. Russian women can not seem to get enough of these liberated war heroes freed in newly annexed territory," commented, Besada. "True Russians, from Ukraine," said Beseda.

Russians can not get enough of the TV show or online fan discussions. "You see the #OblastBearRide hashtag everywhere" said one woman, "I can not wait to get a Ukrainian, I mean, freed Russian, to replace my Vatnik of man."

Roses of Reunification airs every week. The show gets carried in 14 languages and is available on RT, OAN, and Fox Business News.

regrets of reason
   form prisons in our minds
treason of thought now
torn
fraught with futures
once
defined 
  doors behind
bars of delusion casting
illusions of
  freedom
Reasons of
regret
#smallpoems

Hoping to see Judge take the record.

Think Before you Click

Your #phishing training needs to focus on increasing thinking not converting silly KPIs of phishing tests.

Focus more on Awareness of “Think before you click”

Make employees aware of how your filter works Train your employees on your SPAM folder Train employees on you quarantine process Train employees to never share credentials in an email Train employees to never share credentials

If a phishing email reaches an employee upstream defenses have already failed. It is not the users fault for clicking on the link.

Most phishing tests are an assessment of writing quality of the attacker and not vulnerability of employees.

Instead of playing Gotcha Ball to raise KPI scores teach people the kinds of email to ignore and train them often on your company email policy and procedure.

MouseBrain by jgmac1106 licensed with a CC-BY-SA. A a remix of: “Alas, poor Yorick” by byzantiumbooks lnkd.in/eBFj6cMv is licensed under CC BY

Ben Werd

Gentrification as a Service and Don’t even make the term sheet would be great titles for your social equity and design book.

We had a hipster trailer park open in my town. Bought an old 4h camp. People pay hundreds a night to live in a trailer park while others scrape up that much for a month’s rent in real trailer parks.

You can even pay extra for a cellphone lockbox outside to help you “disconnect” (don’t tell anyone there is barely any service anyways).

But the disconnect to community happened already. Look at the rise of plus 55 housing to meet affordable housing set asides. People wanted all the taxes and none of the children. Now school budgets are decimated and active communities going bankrupt.

Flow city. Maybe this is how Racoon City started. Worst case you get an idea for a dystopian novel.

Remix of Internet Archive Book Images lnkd.in/gMN8VDHn is licensed under CC CC0

“Self” by Magdalena Roeseler lnkd.in/gFJSM8Yu is licensed under CC BY

and

“Binary.Ring, Gallery of Computation” by jared lnkd.in/gkYWiuj7 is licensed under CC BY

The next sticker in the design. A remix of This one a remix of “Invisible” by mondi lnkd.in/ent9Fvmp is licensed under CC BY

My Rubric for Measuring Learning in Affinity Spaces

Never been a fan of 21st century skills. Beyond the fact we are a fifth of the way through., the term never resonated. I must admit, I even added to the hype; publishing a set of skills using the latest trope of alliterative “C buzzwords” in a white paper and then a special issue on 21st Century Learning. More so, Ian and I have taken a stab at “measuring” these “soft” skills through research into self-report instruments.

We need to think of 21st Century Skills as practices of pedagogy rather than of performance. Instead of focusing on the learner we need to intentionally design the learning space to cultivate these practices.

NetworkedSkills

The term “21st” century skills is dated. The Internet has seen more birthday candles than the students who walk the halls of our schools. The web outdates many of the teachers as well. We need to prepare students for the future not catch up to the past.

Instead of 21st century skills I think about our networked society. Castells and Cardosa discussed the need for self-programmable learners. So instead of the consonance of constant change, I tried to think about what the “soft skills” (stop calling them soft) people would need to be a self-programmable learner in a networked society.


I settled on: create, communicate, think, lead. I then wanted to start thinking about a map. Actually the thinking about the map started first. It lead me to the four practices found in participatory learning environments.

I was reading an article by Paul Deane on “Rethinking K-12 Writing Assignment” when he discussed competency models as a “detailed map of the skills that should be assessed.”

CBAL
Dean, P. (2012). The CBAL Competency Model.

The infographic is great. So many layers of meaning in so few words. It also “mapped” writing in a way that I had never really seen before.

I was also, of course thinking about the Web Literacy Map and the working group efforts to release a second version of the Map. If you have been following the developments a series of focus group interviews is being conducted. Reading the questions being asked it seemed many people are trying to answer what are “21st Century Skills” we are trying to teach.

I am beginning to wonder if that is the right question. Maybe we should be asking, “What practices should our learning spaces require and reinforce?”

Choosing Practices

I settled on these four practices because they are essential to self-programmable learning. I dropped collaborate because learning never occurs alone. We are social animals and I believe in many ways our humanity begins when behavior must conflict with instinct. When we run simulations in our mind, delay gratifications, weigh consequences, and consider others we become human.

I then placed a series of practices in concentric circles. I was intentional in my design hoping the practices grew in scope and impact on society.

I then looked around for the types of choices and practices I would want to see in participatory learning environments.

I lifted the entire Create category from an etherpad published by the Web Literacy Working Group. It is cool stuff. Gets at the whole design thinking thing plus puts a focus on making.

The Communicate practices are a mix from the Dean article and writings about rhetoric, reading, and writing.

The Lead category is something new to me. Garnder Campbell sparked my thinking around leadership and learning. The recent focus on leadership in the Mozilla Learning Networks has also honed my though.

In the Think category I dropped critical. Maybe its my natural aversion to totally useless and unnecessary modifiers. I find them redundant and repetitive.

Part of it is just plain confusion. If I can think critically when do I think uncritically? When do I use my dumb thinking skills? Instead critical thinking usually refers to a specific subset of processes and practices. Yet these subset of competencies changes if we are talking Spache’s critical reading or the camp that grew from the Frankfurt school and Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

I went with Think. You can Think Different, but just think.

Levels of Engagement

I then played with the idea that each circle represents some level or characteristic of learning. I tried using two dollar words like enculturation. I attempted to sound like the cool kids by using in words like affinity spaces.

Nothing work. So I tried to settle on simple:

engagement

self->others->Mes->Us->-Everyone

Not sure if this works though. Still I would rather us invest time into ensuring are learning spaces afford the agency for these practices to be built rather than spending time and treasure chasing variance in scores.