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N8's adventures living, teaching, & making in the city of detroit.

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What if Detroit was upsidedown? IG: n8paper

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test 2A

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wanted to see this one again

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After the rain fall #summer

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Music making at porous boarders

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At the EMP museum horror exhibit (at EMP Museum)

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Today Susan Crawford speaks to Fresh Air’s Dave Davies about the battle over high-speed internet. Internet service providers, especially cable companies, are not required to treat all websites equally. They can provide faster service to some sites and slower, interrupted service to others who refuse to pay them extra fees.  In fact, when a video is buffering, it might not be the video loading at all. Crawford explains:

"Arstechnica did a great article about this called “Why YouTube Buffers.” Why do you sit there in front of what you thought was going to be your favorite YouTube clip and you see nothing but a multicolored wheel spinning in space? You may think it’s the YouTube application. You may think there’s something wrong with your computer. It’s probably the Network provider making life unpleasant for YouTube because YouTube has refused to pay in order to cross its wires to reach you. And we’ll be seeing much more of that kind of activity in the future…

[This will become the case with] anything that requires a high-capacity connection—so…streamed video, home security services, anything where the cable operator feels that it could be providing a service that you would love more, they’ll try to get you hooked on their service, and make life commercially unpleasant for the other service and you will follow suit.”

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Great article by Detroit Future Media and Detroit Future Schools Alumni Allie Gross, about how difficult it is to hold charter schools accountable in Detroit.

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Making School more human |Detroit Future Schools & Michigan Radio

Last week I had the amazing honor of being featured in a small piece by the amazing Zak Rosen of Michigan Radio. The Piece is called "Making School More Human" it is a peak into the work that is happening in Detroit Future Schools Classrooms, like the one at The James and Grace Lee Boggs School.

So please check it out! Here http://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/making-school-more-human

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Matching Monsters, A Tumblr Blog That Adds Illustrated Creatures To Photos That Match the People In Them

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I just like this so much!

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Mother’s first steps.

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New Carlos3 Track - hey little birdy

My little brother Carlos3 has dropped a new track "Hey little Birdy" from his upcoming collection, Super Marker Songs. 

Its been three year since his last EP Super Marker you can find it here http://carlos3.bandcamp.com/album/super-marker

I love making stuff with this kid! 

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P.S. 321 High-Stakes Testing Foes Hope for a Win After Years of Battle - Park Slope - DNAinfo.com New York

Park Slope's P.S. 321 has long been a leader in the movement against high-stakes testing.

Brave Folks at PS.321 taking on standardized tested for young students. Wonderful example of parents, teachers, students and the community working together to improve our education system.

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How To Successfully Link GED Tests And Jobs

LaGuardia Community College in New York goes beyond GED tests to prep students for better jobs.

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The Power of Empathy

Via Fast Company:

Dr. Brene Brown’s 2010 TED Talk on “The Power of Vulnerability” has gotten nearly 12.5 million views online. And it’s no wonder: Brown delivers insights into human connection, vulnerability, authenticity, and shame with humor and deeply personal stories that avoid the kind of platitudes and sugarcoating that self-help skeptics love to hate. Now, a clever new animation from RSA shorts, animated by Bristol-based Katy Davis (AKA Gobblynne), brings Brown’s wise words to life with cartoons of a sad fox, an empathetic bear, and a judgmental reindeer.

Important for reporters and their interactions with subjects. More important for all of us and our interactions in life.

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Watched this video this weekend on http://www.swiss-miss.com/

It's a nice framing of Empathy but I want to watch the entire speech b/c it doesn't go far enough to say why, empathy is vital. The video stops short, and leaves me feeling empathy is a nice thing, it doesn't say why I need to use it beyond just being nice.

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A Comic Illustrating the Heartbeats of Animals Over Ten Seconds

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This becomes infinitely more entertaining if you do what I did and turn each panel into the last part of a love song lyric:

"Girl, you make my heart go _______"

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Going into my 7th grade science class with this one ASAP!

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Our School Song - Boggs School Detroit

As apart of my Detroit Future Schools residency at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School, we put this video together. 

Just before the Bizarre we decided to make a music video, some of the students would not be able to make it to the bizarre but still wanted to be able to participate. So, in one day in 5 hours we planned, recorded, shot, edited the audio and video. This is the resulting product.

For more check out

http://boggsschool.org/ and http://alliedmedia.org/