Charles Arthur: Screens, not the internet, make us stupid (2)
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There's a meme going round that I think we need to stamp on, quick, because I know you won't give this piece much of your time. The reason for that is not because the internet is making you stupid, but because this piece will only appear on screens (unless you print it out onto paper, you environmental villain). The idea that "the internet is making me stupid" has gained some traction in recent weeks. Nick ...
Independence Day (1)
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths ...
Active Learning in Barabanki (1)
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Can a self-centred Bangalorean appreciate a bag of tricks in remote Barabanki? Ashok Kamath learns a trick or two...Sampurna and I landed at Lucknow’s Amausi airport at about noon – over an hour late and the delay was NOT caused by “late arrival of incoming aircraft” but because the engine did not seem to have enough power even to move. Our host in Lucknow, Dharmendra, had to wait.As we moved out of the airport, I ...
Reading 'round the Country (1)
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Pushkar Sharma from now from Pratham USA, earlier from Pratham's Research team, has been traveling around India since June visiting summer camps and Pratham programs.Please read about his unfolding adventures ......check out his blog
Academic Freedom Legislation: The Creationists Back Door? (1)
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While I despise the efforts of fundies to push their ideology, I have to give them credit for being so persistent. When the Bible speaks of a great pestilence, who new it could have its origin in the pews of the pious. Yes, I know that’s a harsh assessment of those who believe they are simply pursuing their beliefs…but when those beliefs are in direct opposition to scientific evidence, they can be nothing less than ...
How To Talk To Someone With Autism Without Pulling Out Your Hair (Or Theirs!) PT. 2 (1)
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Continuation of Part 1, yesterday's post on how to talk to a kid with autism. 3. Be HONEST. Just tell him you can't talk about that right now. That you are busy, maybe later you can discuss it. He probably won't be hurt by it, he will appreciate your candor. But if you tell him this, know he has the memory of an elephant and long after you have forgotten? He will find you. 4. ...
SLK Course Manager 1.0 Released (1)
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On the 1st July 2008 the SLK Course Manager package was uploaded to codeplex, this was something that I had been waiting for as there are plans to incorporate functionality into a project I am currently working on. Having installed and tested the solution I can say that I am totally under-whelmed, this add-on was expected to fill the Gap left after the move from Class Server to SLK/MLG. Please feel free to grab the ...
L’Université de Montréal sur iTunes U (2)
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Un message de Renaud Boisjoly, d’Apple, m’apprend que l’Université de Montréal offre désormais des podcasts et quelques vidcasts sur iTunes U. L’Université de Montréal devient ainsi la première université francophone dans le monde à se doter d’un portail iTunes U, et seulement la deuxième au Canada après l’Université Queen’s. Quoique je félicite sincèrement l’Université de Montréal de cette initiative, notamment d’une rubrique pour les sciences de l’éducation, je regrette cependant la présence d’une zone à ...
$100 Laptop Redesign (1)
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A new laptop design for the one-laptop-per-child project is being worked out. They have removed the keyboard and replaced it by a touch screen. This turns into a touch sensitive keyboard during normal operation, and the laptop can be used as an e-book reader otherwise. The price is $75, which sounds too good to be true. I used to be very critical of the OLPC project during its earlier stages because I could not understand ...
$100 Laptop Redesign (1)
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A new laptop design for the one-laptop-per-child project is being worked out. They have removed the keyboard and replaced it by a touch screen. This turns into a touch sensitive keyboard during normal operation, and the laptop can be used as an e-book reader otherwise. The price is $75, which sounds too good to be true. I used to be very critical of the OLPC project during its earlier stages because I could not understand ...
Schools scraping by? Give me a break (1)
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The Huntsville Times ran an editorial by John Ehinger today entitled “Schools scraping by.” The gist of the column is not that school tax revenue is falling, although Ehinger leads off by saying there is a “downturn in the taxes collected to pay for public education in Alabama.” In the third paragraph you get the real story. For the first nine months of the current budget year, education taxes grew only by 1.4 percent. But ...
The male and female privilege checklists (13)
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Here is the male privilege checklist. Here is the female privilege checklist. Robin Hanson, scientist, continues: "The next obvious step is to assign point values to such privileges, so we can add them up and compare totals." You can imagine how much fun we had at lunch on this topic and yes a woman was there too.
Sats stress 'blamed on schools' (1)
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Angrezi Hatao is now Passe…… (1)
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Angrezi Hatao was once a very potent slogan in the fiftys and the sixties and a campaign which made the destiny of many politicians of the time – both those who proposed it and those who opposed it. Prominent names who come to mind as leaders in the Hatao movement are Ram Manohar Lohia and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, then with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. The country had gained independence from the British ...
Whither IIT Kanpur (1)
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As another suicide brings IIT Kanpur into the news again, Nandz has an interesting theory. As a recent graduate of the same institution, he scoffs at the idea that tough grading or academic pressure could be a reason. He believes it might, in fact, be caused by the Werther effect. I find it quite an interesting perspective. I’m not sure how much the situation has changed from my times - and they’re not too far ...
昂贵的教科书推动P2P教科书下载 (3)
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美国的大学生越来越多的下载非法复制的教科书。出版社感到了威胁，开始加大压力阻止这一趋势蔓延。 其中一个叫Textbook Torrents的网站承诺将发布5000本以上的教科书PDF扫描版，用户只需要注册一个帐号，通过P2P软件BitTorrent下载。还有一些网站更方便，用户只要点击鼠标就可以下载电子版的教科书。美国每年的教科书价格都在上涨，某些书的价格超过了100美元。一些专家说盗版只会增不会减。
Arkansas school to trial iPod, WiFi-equipped school bus (1)
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Filed under: Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video If you thought taking a ride on the GamerBUS was a thrill, this one will really make you long to be a youngster in Arkansas again. Reportedly, the Sheridan school district is launching the Aspirnaut Initiative to bring laptops, iPods, and wireless internet right onto Bus 46, and amazingly, they expect kids to actually glean knowledge rather than hit up a round or two of Counter-Strike. The project ...
Who says that there are no standards? (1)
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Another loopy story from Britain.A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27
Hong Kong students bring PSP to school, compete in exams (1)
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Filed under: NewsNext time your teacher tells you to put away your PSP in class, point them to this. In Hong Kong, a program called the "Mobile Learning Platform" takes advantage of various electronic devices (PSP included) and uses them to give students quizzes. According to the PlayStation HK site, "students can use mobile devices including PDA, mobile phones or mobile gaming devices to log in to the mobile learning platform and then test their ...
