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When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:18:18 -0000

It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles of 20-something teachers unfurl like gift wrap on the screen, revealing a sense of humor that can be overtly sarcastic or unintentionally unprofessional -- or both.

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Clueless in America - New York Times

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:23 -0000

An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That’s more than a million every year, a sign of big trouble for these largely clueless youngsters in an era in which a college education is crucial to maintaining a middle-class quality of life — and for the country as a whole in a world that is becoming more hotly competitive every day.

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Stephen Heppell: The 'inbetween' time zone used constantly by children offers great learning opportunities. So why no public investment? | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:08:33 -0000

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Tom Watson MP » Blog Archive » Power of Information: New taskforce and speech

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:05:23 -0000

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The News Business: Out of Print

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:24:41 -0000

The Death of the American Newspaper

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The United States of Google

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:23:39 -0000

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Forget the Facts. Can You Learn?: Preparing Students for Future Learning | Edutopia

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:34:07 -0000

Edutopia

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The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:14:28 -0000

Great article on the joys and frustrations of Wikipedia with some useful thinking about how we should approach it from an editing stance.

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Broughton advises that you shouldn't write a Wikipedia article about some idea or invention that you've personally come up with; that you should stay away from articles about things or people you really love or really hate; and that you shouldn't use the encyclopedia as a PR vehicle—for a new rock band, say, or an aspiring actress. Sometimes Broughton sounds like a freshman English comp teacher, a little too sure that there is one right and wrong way to do things: Strunk without White. But honestly, Wikipedia can be confusing, and you need that kind of confidence coming from a user's guide.

My advice to anyone who is curious about becoming a contributor—and who is better than I am at keeping his or her contributional compulsions under control—is to get Broughton's Missing Manual and start adding, creating, rescuing. I think I'm done for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue—a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal. Like other middens, it would have much to tell us over time. We could call it the Deletopedia.

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Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:54:37 -0000

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Parents have a total misconception about what their kids are doing online.

They don't know how much time they're spending. They don't have the breadth of what's happening to the kids online. They think the kids are being attacked by predators all the time. They are way over-concerned about the technology that the kids are using.

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Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out - New York Times

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:00:58 -0000

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But the excited momentum has sputtered to a standstill, tripped up by unrealistic ambitions and technological glitches. The conclusion that such ventures would not be profitable led to sudden withdrawals by service providers like EarthLink, the Internet company that had effectively cornered the market on the efforts by the larger cities.

Now, community organizations worry about their prospects for helping poor neighborhoods get online.

For Cesar DeLaRosa, 15, however, the concern is more specific. He said he was worried about his science project on global warming.

“If we don’t have Internet, that means I’ve got to take the bus to the public library after dark, and around here, that’s not always real safe,” Cesar said, seated in front of his family’s new computer in a gritty section of Hunting Park in North Philadelphia. His family is among the 1,000 or so low-income households that now have free or discounted Wi-Fi access through the city’s project, and many of them worry about losing access that they cannot otherwise afford.

Mr. Meinrath said that advocates wanted to see American cities catch up with places like Athens, Leipzig and Vienna, where free citywide Wi-Fi is already available.

Mr. Meinrath pointed to St. Cloud, Fla., which spent $3 million two years ago to build a free wireless network that is used by more than 70 percent of the households in the city.

Meraki, a wireless networking company based in Mountain View, Calif., has jumped into the void in San Francisco with a program it calls “Free the Net.” The company sells low-cost equipment that can be placed in a person’s home to broadcast a wireless signal. The company also sells inexpensive repeaters that can be placed on rooftops or outside walls to spread the original customer’s signal farther. The combination of the two types of equipment creates a mesh of free wireless in neighborhoods. The company says it has almost 70,000 users throughout San Francisco.

Back in Philadelphia, Cesar’s older sister, Tomasa DeLaRosa, said she had faith that city officials would find a way to finish the network and keep her Internet service going.

“Our whole house is totally different now,” said Ms. DeLaRosa, 19, who had never had Internet access at home until last December because she could not afford it.

After signing up for a job training program and completing its course work, Ms. DeLaRosa received a free laptop, training and a year’s worth of free wireless service from Esparanza, a community group.

“For us and a lot of people in this neighborhood,” Ms. DeLaRosa said, “the Internet is like a path out of here.”

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John Connell » Blog Archive » Learning 2.0: The Power of Learning in a Networked World - part 1

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:54:47 -0000

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“It is this shift away from the notion that we need a top-down hierarchy of some kind to organise and operate education on our behalf that is crumbling under the impact of networks. The merely-smart education leaders are those who are trying to find a compromise between the two paradigms – but the truly insightful are those who know that such compromise can only be a holding pattern. The notion of the network is simply too powerful, and will prevail as the organising model for much that we do in future as human beings, including learning.”

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Conversation Hub » Ten Challenges for the Network Age

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:10:06 -0000

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Facebook | Accepted: University of Pittsburgh - Class of 2012

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:10 -0000

Another example of "ridiculously easy group forming."

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Ten Challenges for the Network Age -- Part One - Practical Theory

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:27 -0000

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How this relates to the way schools adapt to the digitial world is simply this -- we no longer have the luxury of assuming that we don't have to teach about this stuff. Every school should and must teach students the idea that "We are the stories we tell." Every school should and must teach digital ethics, teach the idea of creating a deliberate and thoughtful version of ourselves online. Every school should and must challenges students to think about their behavior -- on and off-line -- as if the world depended on it, because, quite honestly, it does.

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