In Defense of Favoritism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"In a consumer society," Ivan Illich says, "there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy." Today's culture tries to spare kids the pains of sibling and peer rivalry, but does so by teaching them to channel their envy into the language and expectation of fairness—and a reallocation of goods that promises to redress their emotional wounds.
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A better way to integrate fairness and favoritism for kids is to show how opportunity and outcome are part of a process.
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The paradox of fairness - 0 views
Why ebooks are a different genre from print | Books | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
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There are two aspects to the ebook that seem to me profoundly to alter the relationship between the reader and the text. With the book, the reader's relationship to the text is private, and the book is continuous over space, time and reader. Neither of these propositions is necessarily the case with the ebook.
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The ebook gathers a great deal of information about our reading habits: when we start to read, when we stop, how quickly or slowly we read, when we skip pages, when we re-read, what we choose to highlight, what we choose to read next.
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This is certainly a concern from the perspective of a Library Media Specialist taxed with maintaining patron privacy. It will be interesting to see how libraries handle this with the publishers once the publishers are truly on-board with selling ebooks to libraries. In the meantime, if you want your privacy with an ebook, turn off the sync features and turn off the WiFi on your device as you read.
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readers remaking the text, much in the manner of the fan reaction to The Phantom Menace, The Phantom Edit.
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This is a concern for the future, for this author of this post. eBooks could also become self aware and set up a bot net to take over the world's tablet devices and start WWIII, but I'm not going to start losing sleep over that, and I'm not going to stop reading ebooks out of fear of this either. ;-)
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Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice? - 1 views
In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captive - 1 views
Pro Con on Standardized Tests - 0 views
Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller is Researching Ways that Bad Memories Can be Made Less ... - 0 views
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“My conclusion,” says Schiller, “is that memory is what you are now. Not in pictures, not in recordings. Your memory is who you are now.”
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“The only way to freeze a memory,” she says, “is to put it in a story.”
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