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Jeremeanie started me thinking again with Too many topics, too little time. » This note’s for you » One Laptop Per Child? about the One Laptop Per Child issue, and then I found this on SlashDot below. I think what’s bugging me is that old standard of ‘what was good enough for me is good enough for everyone’ nonsense. When was ( Read more... )

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Slashdot | College Freshmen Struggle With Tech Literacy
an article on the E-Commerce News site [E-Commerce News: Trends: Generation M’s Surprising Struggle With Tech Literacy] about techno-literacy problems with incoming college freshmen. Some schools, like CSU, are planning on including a technology comprehension test ( Read more... )

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I love tom waits. I love ’scary’ children’s stories. And here’s one altogether.

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Rochelle sent me this article which is really interesting: The Chronicle: 10/6/2006: E-Mail is for Old People: “As students ignore their campus accounts, colleges try new ways of communicating….” While I’m very happy that people are thinking this through, they don’t seem to be thinking that wisely or deeply. I did post ( Read more... )

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Slashdot | Professor Sells Lectures Online
“Students at NCSU have the option of purchasing the lectures of a professor online. The Professor did this as a way to help those that missed class, didn’t take good notes, or from another country and have trouble understanding an English speaking Professor. The reactions on campus were ( Read more... )

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Do I Need to Know This?

You can survive without the things you learn in college. People survive scrounging out of dumpsters and sleeping in doorways. If you want to talk about quality of life, we need to be a bit more demanding.

Professor Dutch has this quote an others on an interesting page that Buridan shared with me; ( Read more... )

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Preservenet has the FULL TEXT of many of Ivan Illich’s works including Deschooling Society which is, to me, the one book any one who pretends to be an educator must read.

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I was over at the AGO yesterday. A number of ECE faculty will be consulting with the AGO on some issues relating to learning. We saw a bit of this project which will be opening July 1, and it sounds really exciting. If you want to get your portrait in a gallery, here’s your chance… and since the project is ongoing, there’s no ( Read more... )

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Interesting article about Photography on the Open Source Blog that might be of interest for my course. I like how digital images are becoming a blogging language of their own, and how it comes down, in the end to what choices people make as to what is important to them to capture.

A group ( Read more... )

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Catspaw’s Guide to the Inevitably Insane:

When Google announced that they would be deploying a censored Google China, the subject of internet censorship received media attention like it never had before. It became a topic that the general public discussed and protested. But this isn ( Read more... )