Most retweeters and Facebook reposters aren’t informing, or even arguing. They are using headlines the way one might use a bumper sticker: to express who there are and bond with others. > From a user’s point of view, every share, like or comment is both an act of speech and an accretive piece of a…

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> Those cultural logics include valuing logic over emotion, winning over negotiation, aggressive confrontation over accommodation, individual liberty over the common good, and a sense of entitlement wrapped in a defense of “free speech” – speech that can win by aggressively silencing others. One of the curious ways individuality in this context is expressed is…

> Personally, I refuse to embrace surveillance as a tool that fosters student learning.We wouldn’t accept it for ourselves, so we shouldn’t impose it on students. [source](https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/edtech-i-will-never-use-classroom)

> “For years, it allowed this equal footing, where a troll you didn’t follow and your best friend who you follow and interact with all the time were given equal weight, and that’s crazy,” a former senior employee said. “Seriously, if you were an alien and you came down to look at this thing, you’d…

>Some people react quite negatively to positive reinforcement, either becoming openly defiant or withdrawing in a show of passive resistance. Are these acts of sheer perversity? Not at all. They are reactions to a very basic but rarely noticed fact: the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but…

> While there are certainly plenty of unique scenarios that require a nuanced answer, in many more cases we have communities that are striving to learn more about common topics and asking similar questions. As a result various Knowledge Base Silos have arisen to meet that need. We have http://docs.reclaimhosting.com/, Emory has http://docs.emorydomains.org/, OU has…

Using extrinsic rewards to motivate creative tasks is generally actively detrimental. >Incentives will have a detrimental effect on performance when two conditions are met: first, when a task is interesting enough for subjects that the offer of incentives is a superfluous source of motivation; second, when the solution to the task is open-ended enough that…

> To assume that fairness always requires that people should get what they “earn” —that the law of the marketplace is the same thing as justice —is a very dubious proposition indeed. What’s more, as Morton Deutsch warns, ”the danger of conceiving of personal relations in terms appropriate to marketplace exchanges is that it hastens…

> Rather than building devices that could enhance human memory and human knowledge for each individual, education technology has focused instead on devices that standardize the delivery of curriculum, that run students through various exercises and assessments, and that provide behavioral reinforcement. [source](http://hackeducation.com/2016/07/13/memory-machines)