EPS 415 Media and Democracy

"A Discussion on China's Recent Education Reform on CCTV 9"

"# Why the perceived weaknesses of American education are actually its strengths. # How reform proponents, business executives, and politicians have misjudged American education. # Why China and other nations in Asia are actually reforming their systems to be more like their American counterparts. # What really matters for an education system and what really counts as educational excellence."

"To fulfill its desire to become an "innovation-based" economy, China needs a diversity of creative and innovative talents. China has fully recognized the damages of the gaokao and has been working on curriculum and pedagogical reforms in order to mitigate the negative consequences of gaokao. It has also been trying to reform the gaokao. But until now it has not touched the root cause on a national scale"

So, whatever happened with Google in China anyway?

blog about Chinese news

"Yesterday, Google announced its plans to re-route Chinese traffic to avoid censorship. Google will no longer censor google.cn. Instead, Google will now redirect all Chinese traffic to google.com.hk as a loophole around censorship imposed by Chinese government where it is no longer legally obliged to censor its content. * Google Reroutes China Traffic to Avoid Censorship In a statement, Google said it has discovered that the Gmail accounts of some of the human rights activists in China were being "routinely" accessed by third parties. "

Story about the little lip syncing girl at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and how the other little girl who was originally supposed to sing was deemed unacceptable for the show at the last minute because of her buck teeth

Excellent Australian Video I'd like to embed in our site that explains how China is filtering/censoring media

I wish I'd found this site earlier. Someone has set up an RSS feed which compiles news about China (from a range of U.S. media sources in English)

Part III: How do these problems relate to activities across different areas of life - not only in formal educational institutions per se, but also in informal contexts and activities of learning? Using fresh data from the Trendstream Global Web Index-a recurring survey of more than 50,000 users of social platforms in 18 markets-we mapped by country how people are sharing information about themselves online. We looked at five broadcast behaviors: blogging, managing a social-network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and microblogging.

Great graphic of how various countries across the world are using social Internet or social media. Includes China and the U.S.

Melanie/ Mary (filtering) "China has delayed a plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with internet filtering software. The Green Dam software has become a major topic of discussion in the blogosphere."

The Green Dam ? a software proposed in June 2009 to be installed on all Chinese computers - plan has stalled. people can get through it. Intention was to block pornographic content and allow "comprehensive net surveillance"

"policemen blocking the lenses of foreign journalists"

"the 20th anniversary of the army's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators"

Software for filtering must be installed on all Chinese compturs Jan. 2009

"Comments, rumours and opinions can be quickly spread between internet groups in a way that makes it hard for the government to censor. So instead of just trying to prevent people from having their say, the government is also attempting to change they way they think. To do this, they use specially trained - and ideologically sound - internet commentators. "

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