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When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web

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

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

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

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The News Business: Out of Print

The Death of the American Newspaper

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The United States of Google

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

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The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books

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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Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key?

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

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

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When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web

Clueless in America - New York Times

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

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The News Business: Out of Print

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Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key?

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

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