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21 Nov 09

Empowering Youth-directed Learning in a Digital Age | DMLcentral

"Each portfolio is personally curated by youth like Tashawna to offer an audio and visual tour of their social media productions that highlights the literacies developed through each social media project. This stands in contrast to the Digital Transcript, which is official and controlled by Global Kids."

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12 Nov 09

Repetition of flawed schooling models will not improve education | Education | guardian.co.uk

England's education system contains elements of "insanity" in its repetition of models of schooling which have been demonstr

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08 Nov 09

The Thinkers: Teachers offered a lesson in urban vernacular

"As with any language, she said, "there's a much richer meaning if you can understand the intended colloquial meanings that go with the expressions."

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07 Nov 09

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101

Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research.

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Little Brother >> Blog Archive » CC licenses help readers, Part MMXII

Espen Andersen writes, "After buying 'Little Brother', I discovered that a page was torn out. Rather than exchange it, I just printed out the missing page from Cory's webpage."

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Sex, drugs, music and a pension: why 1948 was the luckiest year to be born | UK news | The Guardian

Free healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to have been born than 1948?

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  • Free healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to have been born than 1948?
  • Those of every generation are inclined to believe themselves more fortunate than the previous. But in Britain, 1948 keeps ticking the boxes. "We are, indeed, the blessed people," says the author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, who attributes their timely conception to the "bitterly cold and austere" nights during the 1947 fuel crisis.
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A child's eye view of the Kingsmead estate | The Guardian

Children from a deprived London housing estate were given cameras to record the detail of their daily lives – with beautiful results

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03 Nov 09

podcastingpd / Audacity | educator wiki

A fantastic resource on using audacity for podcasting from a dedicated teacher.

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25 Oct 09

Spotter cards: What they look like and how they work | UK news | The Guardian

"This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public."

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20 Oct 09

free download of Media Meltdown crashes publisher server | Publishers Weekly

Oct. 1, the download has attracted more than 106,000 hits to its Web site and about 25,000 downloads of the book—indeed at one point the Orca servers crashed from the traffic

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18 Oct 09

Easily distracted: why it's hard to focus, and what to do about it | Psychology Today

"People everywhere seem to be experiencing an epidemic of overwhelm at work. I believe it's a function of two things. Firstly it's the amount of information we now process, which our brain may not be used to. I read somewhere that The New York Times on Sunday contains more information than the average 18th century French Nobleman learned in his lifetime (now, if only I could remember where I read that...)"

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