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ARIN: WHOIS Database Search on 2008-05-14
- 86.0.0.0/8
Remote Access: Why I'll Never Advance on 2008-04-17
- Challenging authority and pushing the bounderies of change to tradition drives
  necessary change. Although it certainly leads to some stressful moments, I
  thrive off bringing dynamic and sometimes radical ideas to the table. I can see
  this being difficult if you have no support from your peers or your
  administration, but that is why we socially network..;).
- Being a model for other classroom teachers is a powerful, wonderful thing. It
  doesn't come with a nameplate on the door, but it comes with a lot more impact
  on the lives of students.
What makes Mathematics hard to learn? - OLPC on 2008-04-15
- In particular, it seems to me, that we should try to get children to learn
  use the “T-test” method, which is a simple statistical test, yet which handles
  huge ranges of situations. Also they should understand using square roots to
  assess variations. Example: Basketball scores are frequently not statistically
  significant!
The Declining Quality of Mathematics Education in the US || kuro5hin.org on 2008-04-14
- A key skill in mathematics, if not the key skill, is abstraction: the ability to
  abstract away from real world objects, and manipulate these abstractions to draw
  deep results, is vital. Abstraction is fundamental
  to mathematics; it is what gives mathematics both its power and its scope;
  it is the mechanism by which higher mathematics is built upon elementary
  mathematics. Abstraction and abstract thinking is one of the core skills that
  mathematics education should be imparting - and yet it is completely ignored by
  these math syllabuses.
- a core skill that mathematics education should imbue, logical structured thought
  and a systematic approach to dealing with abstract objects, is being ignored
E-Portfolios - the DNA of the Personal Learning Environment? ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2007-05-17
- The purpose of presenting the content isn't so that it can be evaluated by some authority but rather to place it in focus, in context, so it can be reflected on by the creator (and his or her peers).
41 Minutes Per Day... ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2007-05-15
- The skills are there, the tech's there, all that's missing is the desire of those not in the know to learn.
Mobiles, Micro Content and Personal Learning Environment ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2007-05-15
- I personally think that community as such is vastly overrated - community (group) implies a sort of conformity with which I am not comfortable. But content is also vastly overrated, so Leinonen. What do I think should be emphasized? Choice. Control. Autonomy.
Dave'S Top 10 Musings On the Encouragement of Community in Multi-User Virtual Environments ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2007-05-15
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  There should be shared or mutually supported goals," for example (why do people always insist on shared goals? meaning, of course, their own goals, that everyone should share).
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The Unbearable Weight of Infrastructure ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2007-05-02
- instead of the entire apparatus we fund today, we instead fund several thousand people with really good salaries and tell them to go forth and provide education to whomever wants it. Add to that perhaps personal coaches hired by local communities. Imagine... Jess Jarvis, Buzz Machine, May 1, 2007.
  [Link]
Young Economist — AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online on 2007-04-27
- How many of America’s uninsured could afford to buy coverage if they wanted to? The research, published last year in the Journal of Health Economics, found that as much as three-quarters of the uninsured population may be able to afford its own insurance. Even under the grimmest assumptions, one-quarter of the uninsured can already afford to buy coverage.