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Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      James O'Hagan on 05 Jan 12
       
      UNGH! Tool for Teacher use?
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With iPads, Olympia students have world at their fingertips - Olympia School District -... - 0 views

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  • “Textbooks have really great things, but they’re also very limiting,” said Underwood, who is in her 24th year of teaching at Olympia High. “Our kids are digital kids. They respond very well to this kind of tactile environment, where they can get immediate feedback.”
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Again, the focus is on the stuff. Not the pedagogy, or the changes in teaching. Really?
  • hasn’t used iPads because they don’t work with the district’s technology system
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And this technology system is some proprietary POJ from Albania?
  • as well as a pilot program at Olympia High where students in an intensive college readiness course known as AVID were issued district-owned iPads to use throughout the year for note-taking, research and organization.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And what has been done with teacher training? Shifts in pedagogy?
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  • The district is still training many teachers on how to incorporate the use of mobile devices in their classrooms,
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      GOOD!
  • “They put them back where they’re supposed to,” she added. “They never put French books back where they’re supposed to.
  • We have a French Blog where the students' class projects (videos, comics, writing, etc... all created on the iPads) are posted. This allows for students from different class periods to observe and interact not only with what their other peers are doing but also what the other levels of the language are working on. Another really useful hands-on learing experience.
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      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Glad to see the students getting in on making this the story it should have been.
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Why I'm Returning My Kindle Fire - 0 views

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    Telling.... The more I used the Fire, the more it felt like I was looking through the wrong end of a spyglass and all I could see was Amazon. I had read that the Fire is designed as a consumption device for Amazon products but I hadn't believed that they would go to so much trouble to hobble what should be a general purpose computer. 
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Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • This guideline is designed to provide specific guidance to Government of Canada departments on the use of externally facing Web 2.0 tools and services
  • James O'Hagan on 28 Nov 11
     
    Wow, Canada is really trying to clamp down on Web 2.0 while at the same time claiming they are promoting use.
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  • Scott Cleland left Precursor Group in 2005 to become the President of Precursor LLC, a consulting firm for Fortune 500 companies. Scott Cleland and Precursor LLC provide analyses of the future of the technology sector and identify potential changes in public policy and capital markets. In addition, Scott Cleland serves as the Chairman for NetCompetition.org, which represents broadband interests in the net neutrality debate. Scott Cleland also publishes two websites on Google. A watchdog site, GoogleMonitor.com, strives to make Google more transparent and accountable. Googleopoly.net compiles Precursors world-leading research on Google antitrust issues.
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    Googleopoly.net

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Author Asks the Question, Is Google Evil? - FoxNews.com - 0 views

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  • Precursor
  • “They are pack rats. They keep everything, and they actually have three copies of everything that goes in there. People have no idea they literally have a mirror of the online world and three copies on Google’s computers,” says Cleland.
  • “They have no respect for other people's valuables. They are a serial scofflaw of copyright policy, of patents, of trademarks, and of confidential information.”
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  • "Is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders?" asks Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich when Fox News requested the company's comment on Cleland's book. "Everyone knows that Mr. Cleland stopped being a neutral analyst years ago and is now paid by Microsoft and AT&T to criticize Google full-time."
  • is a consultant to some of Google's competitors, including Microsoft and AT&T.
  • Cleland refused to confirm it or reveal the names of any of his clients
  • "What happens is that Google is the company that most successfully takes advantage of the Internet," says Levy, who does caution that "there's a real concern because they do have a lot of information about us, and I think Google should be as transparent as possible. In most cases, I think they are pretty transparent about what they have on you and how it works."
  • On Tuesday, South Korean authorities reportedly raided that country's Google offices to investigate if the company "has been illegally collecting private data."
  • "I don't think there's ever been a U.S. corporation that has had so much control," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in Washington, D.C., who also teaches Internet privacy law at Georgetown. "It would be like a company producing automobiles, providing oil, and building the highways ... We're in a similar situation today with the Internet and Google."
  • "Any company with the power of Google has to be watched," says Levy. "But I don’t think Google is a company which is intending to take over the world in some sort of negative sense." But Cleland's version of Google argues that it does. "Google says overtly that they want to change the world," Cleland says, warning that "Google is leading us towards a collectivist society, a planned economy and one world government." "The more you learn about Google, the more troubled you will become."
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