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gleuschk : Study: Baby Einstein DVDs Don't Help Tots Learn Words - TIME - net effect: nil
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deusx : Stryde Hax: The Spy at Harriton High - "This investigation into the remote spying allegedly being conducted against students at Lower Merion represents an attempt to find proof of spying and a look into the toolchain used to accomplish spying. "
Andy Baio : The Spy at Harrington High - digging into the tech behind the high school webcam spying scandal
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deusx : My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "After 26 long years, I can finally rest easy. Twenty-six years I spent standing in front of a camera, gritting my teeth, and shilling the latest works of every hack children's book author imaginable. For 26 years, I've told kids they could
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philgyford : Historical Blogging - Pretty fantastic. Students from The Anderson School in New York created blogs, IM chats and blog comments for American Civil War-era characters. Have a read.
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gleuschk : Mind - When a Parent’s Love Comes With Conditions - NYTimes.com - children who received conditional approval were indeed somewhat more likely to act as the parent wanted. But compliance came at a steep price. First, these children tended to resent and dislike their parents. Second, they were apt to say that the way they
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gleuschk : Op-Ed Contributor - Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think - NYTimes.com - In some ways, they are smarter than adults.
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joshua : Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek
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Linkorama : A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - When this happens -- be it in 10 years or 20 -- we will see a structural disintegration in the academy akin to that in newspapers now. The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of adjuncts alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses an
deusx : A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - "If the mainstream of "college teaching" becomes a set of atomistic, underpaid adjuncts, we'll lose a precious academic tradition that is not easily replaced."
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philgyford : Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards - Free software for learning stuff off flashcards.
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philgyford : Mathematics | Undergraduate Courses, Degrees, Diplomas, Certificates and Qualifications - Open University - The OU have a fairly flexible set of courses. Also, more helpful and flexible about choosing what level to start at.
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philgyford : Mathematics A level - NEC Courses - Looks like a fairly flexible way to build a self study A level course.
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philgyford : Mathematical Studies (Certificate of Higher Education), 2009/2010 entry (part-time study) - Birkbeck, University of London - Requires at least one evening a week of going to a class, but looks an interesting option.
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philgyford : Seth's Blog: Textbook rant - Why textbooks prescribed for college courses are a bad thing: "They are expensive ... They don't make change ... They don't sell the topic ... They are incredibly impractical." (via Preoccupations)
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deusx : The Benefits of Open to the Detroit Public Schools « Trek - "Think about the whole process in 2009: Patti was able get free consulting and find a solution to a very real problem with, literally, no money changing hands. Open advice, open process, open communications (all the way from teacher Patti to author C
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gleuschk : Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? - Chronicle.com - the $1000/week thing knocked me out of my chair
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WillPate : End the University as We Know It - NY Times
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philgyford : LISPA - School - Information - Film - LISPA has a new website and a promotional film. The pictures at the top are people from my year, the film features people from the year above. Very strange, and lovely, to see and hear all this stuff again.
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philgyford : Home Page | Flat World Knowledge - Creative Commons licensed textbooks, written by "experts" and peer-reviewed, which are then free to read online (or pay for a printable version). Little available right now, but promising. (via Preoccupations)
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philgyford : Wikibooks - How have I not seen this before? "Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit." Nice.
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deusx : University Computer Labs? How Retro! | Technologizer - "With almost every student owning a laptop, the school decided that the time was right to save several hundred thousand dollars by eliminating access to shared machines. (It’ll continue to offer space for students to share as they work together, so
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philgyford : Click opera - Art students (called Brian) observed - The student days of Brian Eno. (via Blackbeltjones)
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gleuschk : Students Then and Now - Compared with the students in the 1970s, today’s students are uneducated and unfit for a college education.
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philgyford : Snarkmarket: A Snarkmarket Book Project: The New Liberal Arts - Writing a book about "the new liberal arts" and asking "what are they?" Also, the most pointless use of video ever. (via Kottke)
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gleuschk : Teaching as a Subversive Activity (PDF) - Ch.1: Crap Detecting.
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gleuschk : THE DOCTOR FOX LECTURE: A PARADIGM OF EDUCATIONAL SEDUCTION - wow, I missed this
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