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#BIT15Reads: Passionate disagreement
“….ideas that inspire passionate disagreement can lead to success” (Clive Veroni, Spin, p. 27) At last I’ve found a common thread between three #BIT15Reads books (two books is easy). Veroni says that modern marketing has finally understood that being really disagreeable, can also make you memorable and he goes on to say that politicians have…
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Rethinking Learning Spaces
Source: Rethinking Learning Spaces A trait that I admire above all things is someone who is a creative risk-taker. When Mark Carbone reached out and asked me to talk live about my experience with redesigning learning spaces, my introvert hesitated for about 15 nanoseconds, before I responded “yes!”! Mark and Jamie and I come from…
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars An instant classic, The Girl on the Train is delicious from start to finish. With multiple narrators involved in the same crime, readers are sure to enjoy the twists and turns of reliability and complete dysfuntion that each voice brings to…
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#BIT15Reads Google hangout: Making Connections
This Sunday September 20th at 7:30 ET please join our Google hangout as we talk about the connections you’re making in your reading. To join the Google Hangout on Air you need the invitation link here: https://plus.google.com/events/c04tvql6btg4nhj40peum6b0iak and you need to be in your Google + account. If you have more than one Google +…
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#BIT15Reads: Connections text-to-text
This week Martha and Stepan made a connection to each other because they’re reading the same book and then made this beautiful connection to another text via Chapter 3 of Daniel Levitin’s book The Organized Mind Do you ever have a piece of music come to mind when you’re reading? As an English teacher and…
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#BIT15Reads: Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Vikram Chandra’s final words of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, he says: “Makers tend to fetishize tools that they use successfully, and computer geeks are no exception—hackers will tell you…
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