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Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
Sweden’s Vittra Telefonplan says goodbye to the “conventional classroom” and focuses on creative design. This means in place of desks, there are “sitting islands,” and students can collaborate with peers in “the village”—a tiny house for group work.
Check it out on GOOD→ 

…we obviously need to rethink eduction. this is a great place to start.

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Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?

Sweden’s Vittra Telefonplan says goodbye to the “conventional classroom” and focuses on creative design. This means in place of desks, there are “sitting islands,” and students can collaborate with peers in “the village”—a tiny house for group work.

Check it out on GOOD→ 

…we obviously need to rethink eduction. this is a great place to start.

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fun fact: netflix

about once a week, i pick up my ipad, open the netflix app, and start browsing. nearly 20 minutes later, i’ll have 3-5 new movies or tv shows that have been added to my instant queue. then, i put my ipad down. i now have over 100 movies and tv shows in my instant queue. i haven’t actually watched a movie on netflix in months.

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simplified: product. ux. ui. server. datacenter.

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the spectrum of user experience

the spectrum of user experience

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jawbone UP

if you’re already aware of the amount of sleep you get, what your exercise habits are, and the meals that you eat, the jawbone UP may be an unnecessary purchase.

the one thing it does well is make you aware. however, it’s a pain in the ass to constantly keep it current.

you can’t add past meals. so, if you don’t log your meal at the moment you start eating, it doesn’t get tracked.

also, you can’t add past sleep. so, if you don’t put it into sleep mode, it doesn’t track your night’s sleep. i will say, that on the nights that i put it into sleep mode, it did a great job of recognizing my sleep cycle and woke me up during a period of light sleep, just as advertised.

but, right now, i don’t see how it provides any long-term value. it doesn’t make recommendations. it only makes you aware.

you can add friends and create a “team”, which allows you to track all your habits, and compare them to your friends. i feel like jawbone tried to put a gamification layer on top of your daily health habits in an effort to make you compete to be healthier. 

eventually, people will get tired of games and need something useful and helpful. however, i’m unsure of jawbone’s long-term plan as to what they’re gonna do with all the data they’ve collected from each user. 

i would love to be notified, and given personalized recommendations, of ways that i can be a better person, or feel healthier, based on my past habits. i would love if the jawbone UP found holes in my schedule and told me the best times to schedule a workout. i would love if i got a push notification saying that i’ve average 6 hours of sleep for the past 5 nights and should make a plan to get a full night of sleep soon. i would love if it told me when i might be prone to having an unhealthy snack and that i should opt for baby carrots instead of a cookie. 

until jawbone figures out how i can input data easier, and how all of that data can be useful on a long-term basis, it’s more of a hassle than helpful.

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just when I thought microsoft couldn’t possibly be any dumber, it goes and does something like this… and totally redeems itself!

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knowledge is power

knowledge is power…

…that’s the problem that I have with major social networking sites.

when you confirm a request on a social networking site, you’re authorizing the knowledge of your life. your past interactions, moments, and photos, all become public knowledge. people can go through your conversations, and sift through past documented relationships.

the issue that I have is who people become when they are on these sites, and the problems that follow. when you hand over this power, a person is given two options… respect it, or abuse it. even if someone takes advantage of this given power, they should respect the fact that it was willfully given. unfortunately, I’ve found that most people abuse this power. drama ensues.

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incredibly fantastic.

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