HighTouch: Education: Adopting the worst practices to make the …

The NYTimes has this interesting article on: In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History, Where it has some interesting things on electronic textbooks I found the comments on the future of education of most interest. …

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Why Open Source Rocks (and the music industry does not) « exit's …

Can someone enlighten me as to why the music publishers would impose such a restriction on them? If I were an artist and you came asking for my lyrics, I would gladly give them to you and thank you for listening to my stuff

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Colorado Independent » Colo. online education still expanding …

Then- education commissioner William Moloney explained that resources had not kept pace with the growing popularity of online education . Legislators agreed, passing SB 215, which created new guidelines and a new Division of Online …

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Sign the petition to open travel to Cuba | Gadling.com

Americans today have the right to travel to any country in the world except Cuba. Recently, the OpenCuba.org campaign, which gives people a way to petition U.S. leaders to end the 50-year Cuba travel ban and give all Americans the …

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Spotlight on Education 08/04/2009

One the largest collections of education -based (over 100000) trivia questions * Educational games that allow you to: o Challenge friends around the world in one-on-one trivia games o Join a tournament on education based topics or set up …

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Science, publishing, and such – elearnspace

Discussion of science and publishing in the digital age is growing in popularity. A surprising uniformity of need (open, shareable data), collaboration, and systemic change (incentives, publishing process, etc) is found in various …

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The internet of things – elearnspace

The “ internet of things” fits into the category of “potential but not actual” as well. Have a look at some developments in the field: Henry Holtzman on Internet of Things

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