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Steven Szalaj

Thinking for the Future - NYTimes.com - 59 views

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shared by Steven Szalaj on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Steven Szalaj on 10 Dec 13
     
    Though-provoking piece about the kinds of skills might be needed in a future dictated by mega-data analysis.  It speculates how people might be needed to keep the "human" in "humanity."
Roland Gesthuizen

Henry A. Giroux | When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagog... - 1 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Aug 13
     
    "If the right-wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become "dead zones of the imagination," reduced to anti-public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory. Since the 1980s, schools have increasingly become testing hubs that de-skill teachers and disempower students."
Margaret FalerSweany

Gun Owners Aren't Always Gun Lovers - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Margaret FalerSweany on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • gun owners like Michael Kundu come from a largely unexplored middle ground — a place of nuance and contradiction.
  • these voices of ambivalence that policy makers say are likely to be drowned out by the passion at the extreme ends
Margaret FalerSweany

Living With Less. A Lot Less. - NYTimes.com - 17 views

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shared by Margaret FalerSweany on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me. My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30), but my relationship with material things isn’t.
Andrew McCluskey

The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Andrew McCluskey on 18 Feb 13 - No Cached

  • The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt

  • Andrew McCluskey on 18 Feb 13
     
    Phillip Lopate writes about the virtue of self-doubt and how it (self-doubt) is built into essay writing as a form.
Jac Londe

Word order: The internet as the toy with a tin ear - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 25 views

www.aljazeera.com/...2012428102410990102.html

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shared by Jac Londe on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Word order: The internet as the toy with a tin ear
  • How have communication advancements degraded the way people use languages today?
Trevor Cunningham

When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com - 17 views

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  • Trevor Cunningham on 29 Apr 12
     
    Food for thought.
Roland Gesthuizen

I want to give poor children computers and walk away - opinion - 14 December 2011 - New... - 6 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 11 - No Cached

  • A pre-pilot will start on 1 January 2012. Pre-pilot means that it will be small and there will be modest human intervention just to see children's reactions in order to better design the real, hands-off, dropping-out-of-the-sky format.

  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 11
     
    Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte .. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), even after giving out nearly 3 million laptops, is still criticised along the following lines: "Negroponte believes that you can give a child a laptop and walk away." Whether I ever believed that or not is now secondary. It became such a refrain that I finally asked myself about a year ago: "What if you could?"
tab_ras

Death to high school English - Education - Salon.com - 126 views

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  • tab_ras on 12 May 11
     
    Death to high school EnglishMy college students don't understand commas, far less how to write an essay. Is it time to rethink how we teach?
Jim Connolly

Viewpoint: Why education is not like business | Featured on eSchool News | eSchoolNews.com - 59 views

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shared by Jim Connolly on 16 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jim Connolly on 16 Feb 11
     
    Very clear explanation as to why schools- and other government services- shouldn't be run like businesses.
tab_ras

Teachers' Views on Technology in the Classroom - Video Feature - NYTimes.com - 78 views

www.nytimes.com/...20101121-brain-teachers.html

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shared by tab_ras on 13 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • tab_ras on 13 Jan 11
     
    The Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.
Ed Webb

TALL blog » Blog Archive » Does the Technology Matter? - 39 views

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  • Ed Webb on 18 May 10
     
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Sydney Lacey

Schools Matter: A Teacher in Florida - 37 views

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shared by Sydney Lacey on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Sydney Lacey on 12 Apr 10
     
    A Teacher in Florida
    by Jamee Cagle Miller
    2009 Seminole County Teacher of the Year

    This poem has reached the office of a Senator and may be read at the next voting of the bill (if it gets back to the senate). It is in the hands of the Orlando Sentinal and could be published there.
    She wrote the words many of us want to shout out:-)
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