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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet challenges 'deficient' Kindle Fire - GeekWire - 1 views

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technology tablet nook fire amazon

shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Nov 11
     
    Let the tablet price war begin!
Graham Veth

Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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washington dc progress grading teachers

shared by Graham Veth on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compared with others in their grade.
  • Michelle A. Rhee, the schools chancellor in Washington, fired about 25 teachers this summer after they rated poorly in evaluations based in part on a value-added analysis of scores
  • heir use spread after the 2002 No Child Left Behind law required states to test in third to eighth grades every year, giving school districts mountains of test data that are the raw material for value-added analysis
  • Graham Veth on 01 Sep 10
     
    DC is keeping/firing teachers based on "grading" teachers in their successes with their students on standardized tests.
Jason Hammon

Texas schools begin tracking students with computer chips in ID Cards - 0 views

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Tracking

shared by Jason Hammon on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Hammon on 26 Oct 12
     
    Texas schools are using technology to enable their attendance tracking. Like always, parents are fired up about it.
Zachary Wagner

DAWN.COM | Sci-Tech | Google, Skype under fire in India after BlackBerry reprieve - 3 views

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communication crackdown

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  • Zachary Wagner on 02 Sep 10
     
    Worried about security, India threatens to ban messaging services
  • Margaret O'Connell on 02 Sep 10
     
    Articles like that make me glad I live in the USA ... but, then again, "they" are probably monitoring all our messaging. In any case, the article was interesting to me in that it shows, once again, how companies who want to play world wide need to build in more capabilities to their product in order to accommodate government ordinances.
Matthew Ong

This camera can capture things at the speed of light... - 0 views

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light emerging technology tedtalks amazing creative

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  • Matthew Ong on 24 Sep 12
     
    It isn't so much the fact that this camera can do what it can. It's how its inventor conceptualized the possibilities of firing packets of photons many times and capturing it to form an image. There were ripples of light! Amazing possibilities in store for the imaginative educator...
Erin Sisk

For-Profit Colleges Under Fire - 2 views

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shared by Erin Sisk on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Erin Sisk on 31 Oct 11
     
    Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM EDT A muckraking journalist enrolls in a for-profit higher education, and finds a mess. We’ll tackle the controversy. For-profit universities promise to make higher ed convenient, accessible and powerful for all comers, and they’ve got the testimonials to back that up.
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