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Ando Endano

Dean Kamen - Don't Tell Me It's Impossible - 0 views

  • “Don’t tell me it’s impossible,” he says, “tell me you can’t do it.” “Tell me it’s never been done. Because the only real laws in this world–the only things we really know–are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell’s equation–no, scratch that, the only things we really know are  Maxwell’s equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That’s all we know that’s true. All the rest are man’s laws…”
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    A quote from Dean Kamen, Inventor of the Segway, regarding innovation
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    ""No one's got the model that's going to work yet," said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who specializes in computer and Internet law. "I expect all the current ventures to fail, because the expectations are too high. People think something will catch on like wildfire. But more likely, it's maybe a decade later that somebody figures out how to do it and make money." "
Tomoko Matsukawa

Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say - 0 views

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    Comments from Kids and Parents complaining the way how teachers teach/assessment is conducted. (very short video clip)
Cole Shaw

COPPA regulation and ed tech game developers - 0 views

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    A couple of youth-oriented websites settled with the government recently because of COPPA (law that protects children's private information online, if they are under 13yo). Now legislatures want to expand COPPA, so it may significantly impact learning games developers, too.
Susan Smiley

Free Online Education is Now Illegal in Minnesota - 0 views

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    Thought it was April Fool's for a minute
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    I just saw this and was about to post to Diigo--this is quite depressing! I don't understand people's logic, sometimes. Maybe the law should be changed instead of trying to enforce an antiquated rule on new technology...and so does that mean things like Open Course Ware are also illegal in Minnesota?!? Or even syllabi or any sort of "instruction"--web page, article, etc.? Craziness...
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    Wow, so online education is a political issue? How could Minnesota government think an arcane law to pay fees is going to deter anyone?
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    Update: apparently this article went viral and the MN state government was so embarrassed by the outcry that they have backed off and said that they will introduce legislation to amend the 20-year-old law in question, noting that it "clearly didn't envision free online classes from accredited universities." Read more about it here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/19/minnesota_coursera_ban_state_won_t_crack_down_on_free_online_courses_after.html
Allison Gevarter

High Court's violent-game sales ruling: Why now? | Politics and Law - CNET News - 0 views

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    An update on the ongoing case of whether or not a law banning the sale of "violent" video games to minors is constitutional.
Ashley Lee

Editorial - Twitter Tapping - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    privacy law needs an update in the post-Internet age--the government is monitoring social networking sites
Sunanda V

Idaho Voters Repeal Online Learning, Performance-Pay Measures - 1 views

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    Voters in Idaho voted 2:1 to repeal a RTTT-inspired state law that would have brought 1:1 laptop programs to all high schools and required all students to take 2 online or blended courses in order to graduate from high school. The public felt that the law would have "diverted taxpayer dollars to technology corporations and marginalized teachers."
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    Idaho voted down several education measures including one to require participation in an online course before high school graduation and a shift to 1-to-1 computing in schools.
Deidre Witan

Minnesota Coursera ban: State won't crack down on free online courses after all. - 1 views

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    Minnesota government uses a decades-old law to ban online classes, then reconsiders after public outrage.
Amanda Bowen

Regulators Say Social Network Violated Child Privacy Law - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Skid-e-Kids says it offers children help with homework and parents a dashboard to keep tabs on what their kids are up to. "Skid-e-Kids is the only social network that is truly committed to not only keeping our children safe, but also making sure that they are systematically learning while they are having fun," the site promises."
Chris Johnson

A copyright black hole swallows our culture (Financial Times - Opinion) - 0 views

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    This is a very salient issue in modern education and the results of the Google Books issue will have a great impact on academia.
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    This is an article by professor of Law at Duke. His argument focuses around Google's Book search service and the recent litigation surrounding it. He criticizes both sides and recommends that we collectively rethink the ideas behind copyright.
Ashley Lee

Chapter 2 - Facebook and Student Engagement.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    can social media use increase the student's social engagement?
Maung Nyeu

An open letter to Peter Thiel | Social Entrepreneur Guide - 0 views

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    "The world is ripe for another revolution - this time in education. Technology has advanced so much over the last two decades that we can virtually change the way we educate." - Vivek Wadwa, senior research associate at Harvard Law School and director of research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship.
Maung Nyeu

An open letter to Peter Thiel - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    "We can do to schools what PayPal did to banks and do to college networks what Facebook did to friendships. We can now make education affordable and pervasive. All this requires is investment in the right technologies and the type of mentoring and support being provided to students, such as the Thiel fellows. You could impact the lives of billions" - Vivek Wadhwa, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship.
Maung Nyeu

Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    After School officias from Little Falls, Minn., visited Apple HQ, they decided to spend $1.2m on 1700 iPads. Late Mr. Jobs in an interview with Wired mangazine said, "what's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology." "Mr. Jobs blamed teachers' unions for the decline in education." Walter Issacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, writes Bill Gates and Steve Jobs "agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools - far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law."
Brandon Pousley

Kyle Parry on Trees and Physical-Virtual Borderlands - 0 views

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    Berkman Center Video on the implications of integrating digital technologies into traditionally analog worlds in nature. How can they help and how can they distract?
Janet Dykstra

Minnesota Bans Free Online Education - Forbes - 0 views

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    Invoking a decades old law that requires any degree granting academic institution to obtain a license to operate in state (and pay a hefty fee for said license), Minnesota has banned universities from offering free online courses through education site Coursera, prompting the site to issue this notice to all Minnesota users: Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.
aybüke gül Türker

Khan Academy: Out of the Screen, Into the Physical World - 6 views

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    Interesting article that shows the next step that Khan Academy wants to take
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    "He [Sal] added: "If nothing else, I'd like a kid who's gone through the Khan Academy to be able to say, 'I've learned accounting, law, and I can write as well as someone who's graduated from Andover. That's empowering." Could that also be "disrupting the class"? traditional educational institutions bettter take heed of new technologies.
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    This idea can be seen as an alternative way for teaching methods however we have more sophisticated educatinal tools other than video . Unless this project includes other tools such as 3D and learning by doing , it will be flawed for some sides of teaching ways.
Uche Amaechi

Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Wikipedia Revisited: the Wikipedia Community's Xenophobia - 0 views

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    The professor's argument on why wikipedia will fail
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    Armed Forces America!
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