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Michael Perbix is the school computer tech who is featured in a YouTube video explaining how to remotely activate the laptop cameras at the school district currently in hot water over spying on students. In this somewhat ironic blog post he warns other computer techs they should be blocking chatroulette in school firewalls.

From Robert Wesley McGrew's computer security blog. Describes how he busted the hacker GhostExodus.

A Ph.D. student who busted a hacker who infiltrated a hospital control system by analyzing YouTube videos that bragged about the process.

Flash Mob video about reading.

At 3:30 the attorney addresses the larger issue... that many have laptops with cameras at home that can potentially be remotely activated.

Sir Ken Robinson speaks about how our education system strips students of their creativity. It teaches us to not risk ever being wrong. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will not come up with anything original." The hierarchy of educational importance begins with math and science and ends with the arts. The system was born of the Industrial Revolution pragmatically. We're in post-Industrial Revolution times. Academic inflation is necessitating that one gets a MA for a good job.

This makes me think back to the other day in class when Dr. Wesch brought up excellent questions. Who decided in 16 weeks is enough time to be educated in a certain subject? We cram so much information into such a short amount of time. Even the way we are taught to learn is sometimes misguiding. Ken Robinson makes a great point when he states the following: "All children are born artists...either we grow into it or we grow out of it or rather we get educated out of it."

Professor thinks laptops encourage thoughtless transcription of lectures, give bored students something to do. It's only a matter of time before he goes this far: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80925439/

"And while men who challenged their professor's ideas in class had a decline in stress, for women it was associated with a decline in well-being."

A student shared this with our KSU Salina Networking class this week. Amazing how far we have come in such a short time.

It only gets scarier from :22, when the teacher instructs the students to feign comprehension and interest. From there on out, it's a string of ordered, brief ADHD spaz-attacks. Example of how not all change is change that works for everyone?

Structuring a class/course to engage and digitally mediate students and content.

A theoretical overview of the connections between the changing social environment facing students and teachers and a new approach to literacy pedagogy that they call "multiliteracies."

School accused of spying on students through webcams in school-issued MacBooks. I've seen a few stories like this- I've yet to see one come to any fruition. But it's something to think about as another way media can be pervasive- or a way technology could become pervasive. Does the battle for the view include the battle for being viewed (or not viewed)?

a comparison of phone usage in the US and Japan, two societies that are believed to have contrast ideology of society, come up with a similar trend of new technology using...

The ramifications of cutting teacher salaries. Scary.