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impactology, 6 months ago to random

How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op by By Nick Romeo

"In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism"

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-mondragon-became-the-worlds-largest-co-op

impactology, 7 months ago to random

Really sad how we have compartmentalized and created dichotomies for ways of thinking, feeling for "creative" "artistic" pursuits and logical, analytical ones. Sucks that there's a schism between art and science

Ever wonder what if physics, math was taught alongside or via fine arts/performing arts? How interesting the pedagogy would be

Imagine learning about food science, biochemistry along with cooking! or fashion design, sewing, drapery along with Non-Euclidean geometry

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impactology, 7 months ago to random

The Supply Chain of a Computer
https://scmresearch.org/2018/09/28/the-supply-chain-of-a-computer/

The Semiconductors Industry: a Geopolitical & Geoeconomical Perspective by Edoardo Crivellaro
https://tesi.luiss.it/35302/1/730411_CRIVELLARO_EDOARDO.pdf

Strengthening the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain in an Uncertain Era by Antonio Varas, Raj Varadarajan, Ramiro Palma, Jimmy Goodrich, and Falan Yinug
https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BCG-x-SIA-Strengthening-the-Global-Semiconductor-Value-Chain-April-2021_1.pdf

impactology, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.

https://tech-coops.xyz/

impactology, 1 year ago to random

Wish there was some institution entirely dedicated to researching and experimenting on teaching people how to learn and how to teach each other, especially online (not current school of education ones that are more focused on teacher training on teaching to the test)

Like an institution solely dedicated to pedagogical creativity and pedagogical innovation for artists, designers, engineers where they publish open access research on how to break down complicated topics via interesting exercises

impactology, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

@missmythreyi https://bsky.app/profile/fmriguy.bsky.social/post/3koe6kyptoc2y

Post from Dr. Jens Foell
@fmriguy.bsky.social on bluesky

Found the original author's post, link below : Its by Kenny Boyle, a scottish actor who is also on twitter

https://twitter.com/KennyIBoyle/status/1566380967282999297

https://www.facebook.com/KennyIBoyle/posts/pfbid08Uz5QrtKZmRuxv549RXMQ7koQ2EQUu1zyNuwFAfGGesZ4kKKjZZuL2Lbd7BS6HiWl

impactology, 5 months ago to random

I was reflecting on why do I have this need of seeking folks with unconventional, non-traditional life trajectories, folks who are rebellious, inquisitive and carved out a niche for themselves, by themselves. Folks who not only stood their ground and rebelled but also made something for themselves and I think it’s about courage.

I’ve realized I get along really well with folks who experienced lot of friction in life & after experiencing had to make out something original, independently.

impactology, 1 month ago to random

Naledi Pandor: “South Africans fighting for Israel will be arrested”

"South Africa's foreign minister said her country's citizens who fight in or alongside Israel's armed forces in Gaza will be arrested upon their return, widening the divide between the two nations after South Africa brought charges of genocide against Israel to the highest court of the United Nations"

https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/14/naledi-pandor-south-africans-fighting-for-israel-will-be-arrested/

impactology, 1 month ago to random

I'm quite enjoying the vibe of mastodon lately, reminds me of my early days on twitter.

Using it as a personal diary, thinking out thoughts loud and yet all that is leading to really lovely intellectual discussions with people. Had forgotten what that felt like on the internet.

Hope it stays that way

impactology, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Going for yet another round of #introduction

Hi, I am Raghav from Mumbai, India. I am engaged in research and work towards developing open education tools, platforms, and environments to support self-directed learning and innovative teaching methods.

#introductions #introduction

impactology, 10 months ago to random

Any self-taught folks in tech industry who made their name in it, post-2010s, by creating entirely new domains/sub-domains for which there was no course/degree/formal credential/certification?

Like self taught non-credentialed folks who created such techniques and concepts on their own that spawned an entirely new industry and then courses around

Like a scenario where no job title or course in any UNI for their skillsets existed but then later it followed

impactology, 8 months ago to random

You Can't Teach What They Aren't Ready to Know By Cedric Chin

https://commoncog.com/you-cant-teach-what-they-arent-ready-to-know/

"A key corollary of Papert's critique of modern education is that by learning academic's formal representations of knowledge, students come to hate learning"

impactology, 7 days ago to random

So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps
https://akomaps.com/

"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"

impactology, 3 months ago to random

As the 'Delhi Chalo' protest by farmers entered its second day, Indian Farmers Fly Kites To Tackle Drones Carrying Tear Gas Shells

Using the long strings of kites to entangle the rotors of the drones, potentially causing them to crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXmJonn2IOs

The farmers, primarily from Punjab, have been steadfast in their determination to march towards Delhi, demanding a legal guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP) and other agricultural reforms

impactology, 5 months ago to random

TIL Michael Faraday who discovered electromagnetic was largely self-taught and didn't have formal math training

Faraday had only primary school education, and did not know higher mathematics, he became one of the most influential scientists in history. For the most part, he was an autodidact: he taught himself.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

impactology, 4 months ago to random

Normal people : I see a blue river

An old buddhist monk having fun trying to troll you: “An internal mental representation of a blue river rose into awareness from interplay of my eyes, cognitive schemas & some perceptual object."

Ask yourself how much are you missing out in day to day life coz of the delineations of reality via the words you use to describe life & your pattern of thoughts & behaviors that characterize you

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are

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impactology, 2 months ago to random

How to find misfits, mavericks, rebels, self-directed learners in any industry/domain?

How to find folks who carved their own niche, who are somehow deviant (by choice) from their social milieu's cultural default/center?

How does one find such people? Where might such people hang out

impactology, 4 months ago to random

Tech Workers Are Workers, Too by JS Tan

"Tech workers in China and the US recently united in the largest display of tech worker solidarity we’ve ever seen. It’s exactly what we need to prevent a global race to the bottom in tech"

https://jacobin.com/2019/05/tech-workers-chinese-solidarity-microsoft-github

Tech workers in China put together a project on Github calling for companies to end “996.” Chinese tech workers have coined the term to describe grueling practice of working 9 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week

impactology, 4 months ago to random

We were made to rote-learn science without adopting the scientific mindset and scientific ways of thinking, philosophy of science

The result is a population with bigoted, dogmatic people even having degrees in engineering and science without having the scientific temperament or critical thinking skills

impactology, 3 months ago to random

How do you feel a sense of tangible progress in life other than more money & prestige

impactology, 2 months ago to random

Better Work Together, Co-authored by Enspiral, a community of entrepreneurs experimenting at the edges of ownership, governance, decision making, resource sharing, and organisational design.

https://betterworktogether.co/

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112112730122739365

List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general. https://tech-coops.xyz/

impactology, 26 days ago to random

I'm looking for a department program that is at the intersection of philosophy of science, philosophy of education, philosophy of mind and graphic design

Has anyone come across something like that?

#philosophyofscience

impactology, 13 days ago to random

'I used to see them as a bunch of rioters': Brazil's radical farmers | The Guardian

Landless workers who occupied disused and degraded farmland were finally given plots and have transformed them into fields of bounty via agroforestry

https://www.theguardian.com/working-in-development/2018/jan/25/bunch-of-rioters-brazil-radical-farmers-agroforestry

In order to sell their produce, 26 of the families created a cooperative called Comuna da Terra, which delivers weekly baskets to consumers in the town. It follows a model known as community-supported agriculture (CSA)

The MST group at Mario Lago sells vegetable boxes to a growing number of local clients, who sign up for a year’s produce and are known as co-producers

impactology, 8 days ago to random

How I Learned to Teach Like a Scientist by Sally G. Hoskins

"My students were comfortable memorizing facts, but they lacked insight into how those facts were generated and how the conclusions were drawn. The ingenuity of research—what I loved most about being a scientist—was lost on them"

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-i-learned-teach-scientist

| wanted [my students] to think deeply about the research process. Some balked. "I'm not creative," they'd say. But I asked them to give it a try—adding a sense of urgency by announcing that, in a later class, we'd form "grant panels" that would rank their proposed studies and decide where to invest an imaginary pool of research funds. After taking part in the panels, the students changed their tunes. They were amazed by the variety of follow-up studies their classmates had thought up. They argued passionately about which ideas were superior, expressing surprise when other panels made different choices: "Isn't it obvious that No. 6 is best?" It was a thrill to see each student commit to an idea, in the process discovering something about their own powers of invention. Afterward, one whip-smart woman told me that—for the first time—she realized that it was OK to come up with her own scientific ideas.

impactology, 24 days ago to random

The Utopian UI Architect : An ex-Apple interface designer’s — Bret Victor's 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with them

https://medium.com/re-form/the-utopian-ui-architect-34dead42a28

“We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says.