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21 Nov 07

JOHO - November 19, 2007

  • But Grafton seriously underestimates the existing and coming
    discontinuity. In fact, Grafton is so insistent on defending
    libraries that he lets his nostalgia overcome his logic.
  • Grafton is thus pointing to the needs of a tiny fraction of scholars to
    support
    his case for the broad necessity of libraries
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20 Nov 07

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Future Reading: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

  • Last year, Kevin Kelly, the self-styled “senior maverick” of Wired, predicted, in a piece in the Times, that “all the books in the world” would “become a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas.” The user of the electronic library would be able to bring together “all texts—past and present, multilingual—on a particular subject,” and, by doing so, gain “a clearer sense of what we as a civilization, a species, do know and don’t know.” Others have evoked even more utopian prospects, such as a universal archive that will contain not only all books and articles but all documents anywhere—the basis for a total history of the human race.
  • The hype and rhetoric make it hard to grasp what Google and Microsoft and their partner libraries are actually doing.
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13 Mar 07

Beyond School: More on the Abuse of Student Blogs for Potential Young Writers

  • You will write. For years. And you will write according to standards of high quality for content and style. But beyond that, you're beyond school-writing. You're writing to find your own connections, your own interests, your own ideas, voice, and style. You're writing to become, to the best of your potential, an actual writer. And we're here to guide.
  • But--I think that whole class blogs are the place for that, while individual student blogs should contain freely written posts reflecting the individual student.
08 Mar 07

The Totalitarian Urge

  • “Older mechanical technologies make us see the world as deterministic, knowable and manipulable. New emergent technologies like the Internet teach us that control is an illusion, the universe is out of control and laughing at us, and that the more we watch and control, the more problems we have.”
03 Mar 07

Dangerously Irrelevant: Social justice

  • -solving ways. I
  • opportunities because
    their families and communities are less likely to have the means to
    provide such opportunities outside of school. I read a quote from
    someone (and I dearly wish I could remember who said it) that said
    something like “poor kids have th
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02 Mar 07

Publishers OK Online Book Browsing

  • Publishers OK online book browsing
  • The dusty world of book publishing has taken a step into cyberspace as Random House and HarperCollins let customers browse books online.
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08 Feb 07

How high are the walls on your garden?

  • Online interaction between students, parents and other members of the community have already started and will continue whether the school provides space for it or not. At this time, schools are not deciding if their students and parents will be online, they’re just deciding whether they will be central or peripheral to the online experiences of their community members.
30 Jan 07

Pedagogy defines School 2.0 at The Thinking Stick

  • Too much educational software just attempts to turn these really powerful devices into the next version of the workbook. That’s criminal.

Futurelab: ‘Teachers as Innovators’ event at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk

  • With a personal learning space accessible by him 24 hours a day, however, the situation is completely different. He should know what to do next and look to the teacher for guidance, not as a ‘gatekeeper’.

Apple pays sites' legal fees in free speech victory

  • And the court specifically declined to use the term "blog" in its decision, noting in a footnote that the concept was still too amorphous to form the basis for legal precedent. Instead, the court broadly affirmed that online reporters—bloggers or otherwise—were entitled to the same legal protections as their dead-tree counterparts, without regard to a site's format or level of professionalism.

SCHOOLS and the NEW e-Discovery RULES


  • all Federal lawsuits there will be
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    automatic discovery of virtually all types of electronically created
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    or stored data which might be relevant to the legal issues
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  • Federal Courts could construe the failure of a school district to be
    in strict compliance with statutory requirements as the basis for
    imposing sanctions or for instructing a jury to infer that relevant
    evidence had been destroyed.
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29 Jan 07

Why the future needs us: educational reform, collaboration, and social action

  • Therefore, it necessary for us, the blogging and edublogging communities, to make education and read/write technology a social/economic priority.
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