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Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) argued it was one thing for Trump to travel to Iraq to visit U.S. troops during the shutdown and another for Pelosi to do so. "I think the president of the United States represents the entire country as commander in chief, I think if he wants to speak to the troops, that it certainly honors our entire nation," Turner told CNN's Wolf
Greg McVerry"There is a saying that I was taught by my parents, 'De todo lo malo, siempre sale algo bueno,' which in English means, 'From everything bad, something good will come of it,'" Cárdenas said in his statement.
Greg McVerryAnother vapid non report from #edreform movement and a shame as I generally agree. Some points: This study is about reading assessment not instruction. It doesn't site one study that since the 80s finds moderate to high effect sizes for strategy instruction especially for struggling readers It doesn't cite any empirical research just a drive by citation of E
Greg McVerryGo Sportsball! Important education dollars at work. Though I do agree cultural investments like the arts and sports are important for a shared identity. But wow, that is expensive. This would be so much better invested in #BringBackTheWhale. I mean if we are investing $42 million dollars for sports for "play an important role in the life of the university an
Greg McVerryRules for accreditation... Let's see what problems the fed makes when trying to fix others.
Greg McVerryawesome article on history of electric guitar. Need ot read book.
Greg McVerrythe danger of women and children? A massive drop off in illegal crossings from migrants...where is the crisis.... How can race have nothing to do with this when the people complaining most about immigrants live in places without brown people? If terrorism was the reason we would build the wall in Canada not Mexico. The wall is a symbol of hate.
Greg McVerryAnother great piece that has me thinking about ants and social networks Primarily, in a distributed process, there is never central control, while in division of labour there might be. A leader can tell one citizen to make candles and another to make shoes. In a distributed process this would happen through local interactions, for example with people who wan
Greg McVerryh/t to @lauraritchie for stumbling on the metaphor of the ant colony and social networks.
Greg McVerrySnarky #WordPress Technical debt piece.
Greg McVerrycatching up on blogging quotes from 1600's
Greg McVerryThinking about this and the web. Coincidence I named #edu522 "What's Your Flow" I was going more with a stream vibe and hiphop connotation. Glad it works for psychology as well.
Greg McVerryStarting this book and thinking about the web and Flow...funny when I designed https://edu522.networkedlearningcollaborative I was unfamiliar with this work but that is what I wanted to go with when using "Flow" But I also meant it etymologically in the hiphop sense of someone's flow. Cool it works both ways to mean same thing.
Greg McVerryVernor Vinge's third book in the Knowledge Zone series suffers problems of many third books in a trilogy but for those who love the tales s of Pham Nuwen, The Olisidot children, the group mind dog like creatures the tines the third book is worth the read. Part of the let down of third tale has to be the the overwhelming perfection in the first two books, "A
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