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Audrey Watters analyses the recent statements that the OLPC project has failed because test scores have not increased.

How tech can result in bad outcomes through external bias and social failures. We can forget that there is more to tech than it being "just some software."

This controversial anti-piracy legislation is all about studios and other corporations making excuses for their technological backwardness and looking out for their short-term profit

Some lessons on the fall of Ning and some alternative options.

Atlantic article on SM in HE. Some good stuff about attitudes and the failure of the academy to maintain pedagogical control. Examples tho' seem to come from courses teaching 'about' SM, not 'through' SM.

"Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. In addition to the content of our course-which ranged across cognitive psychology, neuroscience, management theory, literature and the arts, and the various fields that compose science-and-technology studies-'This Is Your Brain on the Internet' was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning."

Linux article on a contentious keynote where Bruce Perens argues that the Open Source momenent has failed itself

Schuman's piece deriding the Mooc movement based on Thrun's 'pivot'. It's crap journalism but it's the article getting all the comments. As an academic maybe she should read Hattie before bigging up her own contribution to learning.

Delicious taking a lot of flak on social media after the relaunch. Will they get it right or fizzle out? More arguments for local storage with web services to join people and artifacts.

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