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17 Nov 09

Corporate law firm targets whistle-blowers and anonymous commenters - Boing Boing

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easily offended corporate giants track down and sue anonymous Internet forum posters
will also target whistle-blowers. They specialize in figuring out how to get ISPs to turn over their subscribers' personal information.
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- One growth area is identifying individuals involved in leaking confidential information, such as client or financial details, to competitor companies.

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? - WSJ.com

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A typical subject: Discuss the artistic value of graffiti.

03 Nov 09

Education Week: State of Mind

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how to identify, retain, and support the most effective teachers
effective teachers are distributed among all schools,
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- “Disheartened,” “Contented,” and “Idealists.”
- Members of that group, which accounts for 40 percent of K-12 teachers in the United States, tend to have been teaching longer and be older than the Idealists.
- More than half teach in low-income schools.
- school administration
- disorder in the classroom
- undue focus on testing
- Only 14 percent rated their principals as “excellent” at supporting them as teachers
- 61 percent cited lack of support from administrators as a major drawback to teaching.
- viewed teaching as a lifelong career
- three-fourths feel that they have sufficient time to craft good lesson plans.
- 94 percent have been in the classroom for more than 10 years, a majority have graduate degrees, and about two-thirds are teaching in middle-income or affluent schools.
- the Idealists—23 percent of teachers overall—who voiced the strongest sense of mission about teaching.
- 4 percent strongly agreed that all their students, “given the right support, can go to college,
- 36 percent said that even though they intend to stay in education, they plan to leave classroom teaching for other jobs in the field.
- half the Idealists believe their students’ test scores have increased significantly as a result of their teaching, a higher percentage than the other teachers in the survey.
- “Good teachers don’t join for the money or bonuses. They join because they want to make a difference.”
- bitterness characterized the Disheartened
- Twice as many spoke of likely burnout as did the Contented and Idealists.
- student-behavior problems and a lack of a supportive administration are major issues feeding discontent among teachers, alongside the perception of low pay.
- Perceived lack of administrator support, discipline problems, class size, low pay, and lack of prestige loomed as much larger negatives for the Disheartened.
- Low salaries and “little prestige” were not top issues,
- The Disheartened were more likely to mention higher pay
- removing students with severe behavior problems from the classroom
- More than a third of Idealists voiced a desire to move eventually into other jobs in education.
- Others may be good teachers trapped in dysfunctional schools and, in the right environment, might change their views and become Idealists.
  - Am so glad to see that this article recognizes that it is not all about the teacher - sometimes it is a FUNCTION of the environment. - on 2009-11-03
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- “Copers,” whose main focus is successfully completing the work of each day, and “Transformers,” who aim to change the schools they manage.
- he degree to which the most idealistic teachers could be Transformers, effectively helping struggling students become eager and accomplished learners,”

28 Oct 09

flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software

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Skype.
we sit down and really think about it
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- Our project ( WFS) will be u
- like the administrating works and stuff,
- PayPal
- Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA)
- iphones
- Calenders

19 Oct 09

Digital Citizenship. All aboard! haha ;) - Digi Teen

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The most important rule in life is also the most important rule on the net. Treat others as you would want to be treated
Anything that is hard to say face to face is said on the internet.

My reflection on the Educational videos concerning DIGITAL SAFETY - Digi Teen

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I have realized that in today's "internet society", many people, (youths especially) tend to use the internet as a venting place.

15 Oct 09

The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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He would get rid of the double slash “//” after the “http:” in Web addresses.
Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes.

12 Oct 09

Call for Artwork :: Mission 10,000 Rockets

! Of the first 10,000 drawings submitted, every school that submits at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win a $5,000 donation from Bing™ and a portion of the book proceeds.

We understand this is quite a tight deadline. To help you out, we are going to provide you with some educational materials. The first 500 teachers to fill out an information request form on Artsonia will get a poster for the classroom, along with a satellite and rocket fact sheet and some fun rocket trading cards. You may also download pdf printable versions of the educational materials.

In addition, students can watch the Delta II rocket launch video on www.10000rockets.com. Then, in early November, Bing™ will have a panel of scientists talking about rockets and you can use that for further inspiration in the classroom.

As the students are learning about rockets, we want to get 10,000 of them to draw the rocket of tomorrow. Drawings can be uploaded on Artsonia from 10/8/09-11/25/09. We will do a few things with the drawings:

* The first 10,000 drawings will be published in your Artsonia school gallery and showcased on a dedicated gallery website, www.10000rockets.com.
* Schools who submit at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win* one of eight $5,000 donations.
* Each drawing will be judged by a panel of Microsoft employees in conjunction with scientists. The judges will select one from each grade group (K-5, 6-8, 9-12) that inspires them and turn these student drawings into 3-D models to honor their invention.
* The first 10,000 qualified drawings will be placed into a commemorative book and sold on 10000rockets.com. Proceeds from the book will be donated to 8 of the schools who have students featured in the book, chosen at random.

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science art contest edu_news

Every invention starts from a simple drawing on a paper. To celebrate the DigitalGlobe™ satellite launch that will capture high-resolution pictures for Bing™ Maps, we want to borrow kids' imaginations to create the rocket of tomorrow.
Of the first 10,000 drawings submitted, every school that submits at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win a $5,000 donation from Bing™ and a portion of the book proceeds.

06 Oct 09

4 Advantages to Outsourcing

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but ultimately they work for different shareholders and ethically must (and will) place their parochial interests first.
savings only occur if outsourcers can combine the volumes of multiple clients.

14 Sep 09

Becta Government & partners - Research - Reports and publications - Evidence on the impact of technology on learning and educational outcomes

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relationship between technology and the learning outcomes of school-aged learners.
there is a strong body of evidence linking the use of technology to improvements in learning and outcomes for learners
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- Time taken to embed the use of technology, school-level planning and learner competency and focus of use, and link to models of learning are all important in mediating the impact of technology on outcomes.
- Schools that take a systematic and planned approach to using technology to support learning achieve better outcomes with technology than other schools.

31 Aug 09

TechCrunch Japan’s Tokyo Camp: 12 Startups Demo Their Wares

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Akira Jinzaki has single-handedly programmed what appears to be a powerful TCP traffic controller with the potential to change the way Internet traffic is currently being managed (99% of the Internet traffic is TCP-based). Jinzaki says his Jin-Magic software manages TCP traffic in a cost-effective way that is transparent to the network to get the most out of the exiting plumbing.

20 Aug 09

Study Finds Online Students Outperform Classroom Counterparts

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on college and continuing education programs
online students ranked in the 59th percentile -- markedly higher than the 50th percentile score achieved by those in the classroom.

15 Aug 09

Minti - Angry Child? Fix the Behavior, Not the Feelings

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The primary goal of behavioral change is to get people to do something different when they’re upset, angry or afraid.
“The next time this happens, what can you do differently?”
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- Make the shift. Focus on your child’s thinking, not his emotions.

07 Aug 09

Best Homework Apps? - iPod touch Fans forum

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But I don't use it anymore, because we are not allowed to use iPods at school, so we have to write it down in our agenda anyways..

05 Aug 09

Harvard trademarking everyday phrases - UPI.com

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"Ask what you can do,
"Lessons
learned"
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- "Managing yourself,"

31 Jul 09

Andrew Hargadon: On managing innovation

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I can't recall a single innovative new product that was obviously and unambiguously valued in it early days by the organization. So there is more to innovation than simply exploring for new ideas.
It's the process of converting an idea, even a prototype, into a set of resources, procedures, metrics, and marching orders that can enable an organization to effectively replicate, scale, and manage the new venture.
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- of developing the people and processes that facilitate the routinization of novelty. Of turning good ideas into practical processes that the larger organization can value, adopt, implement, and manage.

Andrew Hargadon

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the number of doctoral students in science and engineering who take jobs in academia versus industry, and questioned whether their graduate training gives them the right skills to generate scientific findings that address (or can feasibily be applied to) real world problems.
60-70% of graduating PhDs in the life sciences and engineering are going into jobs outside of academia.
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- is to prove their value in a world that has fewer resources to devote to greater social and environmental crises.
- with pressing social and environmental problems, and a system that has undermined science's ability to lead in the changes we desparately need.

How Breakthroughs Happen

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In fact, innovation is really about creatively recombining ideas, people, and objects from past technologies in ways that spark new technological revolutions.

29 Jun 09