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Sven A. Miller's List: Interesting Non-Scientific Online Articles
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Jan 03, 12
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
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Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
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Yet Sahlberg doesn't think that questions of size or homogeneity should give Americans reason to dismiss the Finnish example. Finland is a relatively homogeneous country -- as of 2010, just 4.6 percent of Finnish residents had been born in another country, compared with 12.7 percent in the United States. But the number of foreign-born residents in Finland doubled during the decade leading up to 2010, and the country didn't lose its edge in education. Immigrants tended to concentrate in certain areas, causing some schools to become much more mixed than others, yet there has not been much change in the remarkable lack of variation between Finnish schools in the PISA surveys across the same period.
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Jul 12, 11
With social media networks ubiquitous in American life, it’s time to shift the debate from whether it’s a good idea for educators to use this new medium to how to use it wisely and well. Here are 10 tips to help get you started in social media for school communications.
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Jun 15, 11
"A clearer distinction will benefit the reading public. The more distance that opens up between ethical journalism and professional intrusion into privacy, the more the public will understand what it is getting and what it can trust. And that is in the public interest."
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Feb 02, 11
According to the synopsis, John McCutchan, SCEA's lead for Game Systems and Developer Support, will be on hand to discuss the "Move Server project that will make it possible for academics and hobbyists to develop software using the PlayStation Move controller on their own PCs.
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Jan 28, 11
With the rise of easy-to-use Web publishing tools like blogs and social platforms, citizens no longer depend on mainstream media to spread word of activist campaigns and dissent. Thanks to social media, every protester, every citizen, has the power to be a journalist, to broadcast breaking news to all the computer-using, phone-wielding people on Earth.
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Jan 28, 11
Communication technology has proved to be the joker in the pack. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are playing a crucial role in the Arab protest movements, just as they did in Iran in 2009. And, of course, WikiLeaks. The diplomatic cables showed up the opulent lives of Arab dictators that would be unacceptable in any country; their weaknesses, their corruption, and their compromises were all exposed. In many ways, this could be the first Wiki-revolution.
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Jan 17, 11
The internet in this case has assumed the role of a very effective uncensored news agency from which every broadcaster and news corporation have been able to freely source newsfeeds, raw from the scene.
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Jul 30, 10
E-learning consultants invent crises and create divisions between students and teachers so they can sell their wares. Tara Brabazon analyses the rise of the digital Raj
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Jul 29, 10
a hugely successful initiative from marketing firm Wieden + Kennedy, achieving millions of viral video views quicker than past hits like Susan Boyle and U.S. President Barack Obama’s election victory speech.
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Jul 25, 10
Check out the current issue of Time Magazine at Time.com. Click around. Notice anything? On almost every story that comes from the magazine, there’s this phrase: “The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the July 12, 2010 print and iPad editions of TIME.”
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Jul 25, 10
So how is the great paywall experiment going at the Times?
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Jul 25, 10
As journalism’s existentialist crisis continues, Time magazine has resorted to what many readers dread: an online paywall.
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Jul 25, 10
For those of us who regularly frequent the comment sections of blogs and news sites, the revelation that anonymous comments don't always lead to "intelligent and meaningful conversations" doesn't come as a surprise.
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Jul 25, 10
IRL: In Real Life. It's used as shorthand all over the Internet, to distinguish what happens online from what happens offline.
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Jul 25, 10
Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic
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May 26, 10
The naysayers who argue it's only for consuming digital content are wrong
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May 26, 10
20 Jahre lang war er Chefredakteur der „Business Week", heute bildet er in New York Journalisten aus. Im Interview beschreibt er die neuen Anforderung an den Journalismus.
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May 25, 10
Jeff Jarvis gilt als einer der wichtigsten Experten für die aktuellen Veränderungen in der Medienwelt. Im Interview skizziert er die Zukunft der Nachrichtenbranche.
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May 25, 10
Pulitzer-Preisträgerin, Professorin: die US-Wissenschaftlerin Geneva Overholser über Journalisten als Bauleiter, ungewöhnliche Projekte und die Bedeutung der Hochschulen.
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May 25, 10
Mit dem Portal Spot.Us sucht David Cohn neue Wege für den Journalismus. Im Interview spricht er über spendenfinanzierte Recherche, mitarbeitende Leser und Apples iPad.
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