June 2012
1 post
“The sad reality is that, alongside spending her lunch breaks and evenings...”
– http://thepamster.com/?p=79
May 2012
1 post
“Kids should go to schools in the communities in which they live. If parents...”
– http://calmsea.posterous.com/school-handbooks-are-they-a-waste-of-time-and
April 2012
3 posts
Breakdown in communications
Unlike most previous oil spills, the ruptured Macondo well spewed oil and gas nearly a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. That was aqua incognita to the oil industry and federal responders, but it was a familiar neighborhood for oceanographers who had been studying the deep sea for decades.
BP as well as federal officials were under enormous pressure and did little to enlist outside...
“Geographies of language matter a great deal. New Yorkers, for example, denote...”
– http://speedchange.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/titanic-and-geographies-of-language-and.html
“Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a...”
– http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/04/microsoft_word_is_cumbersome_inefficient_and_obsolete_it_s_time_for_it_to_die_.html?tid=sm_tw_button_chunky
February 2012
1 post
“One, said Mahzarin R. Banaji, a professor of psychology at Harvard, is what she...”
– http://chronicle.com/article/Harvard-Seeks-to-Jolt/130683/
October 2011
1 post
“It is necessary to note that Finland never intended to be a world leader in...”
– http://www.pasisahlberg.com/blog/?p=29
January 2008
3 posts
“But little Timmy can’t do it. He never could. And yet when you talk to...”
– It’s time to overhaul copyright law | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“It is not the uneven quality of facts found on the internet that is to blame for...”
– Reference books? Give me Wikipedia | Magnus Linklater - Times Online
“The one click I am making less and less is the one that turns my TV on!”
– The Obvious?: “One click away from danger”
December 2007
1 post
“Perhaps he’s just afraid that a Nigerian schoolchild, empowered by the...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Give me rice, but give me a laptop too
November 2007
4 posts
“like quotations. Usually because the author manages to say in fewer or more...”
– A couple of insightful quotations… at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
“The bedroom of the average connected young person today is a much more powerful...”
– Miscellany
“You get £150 million for new buildings but you get absolutely zero to develop a...”
– Merlin John Online Ltd
“However, most of those countries that have a better education participation rate...”
– BBC NEWS | Education | Waving a big stick at teenagers
October 2007
3 posts
“They don’t do much, but that doesn’t stop RFID tags from being...”
– Tag, You’re It - TIME
“As a school administrator I see that funding and teaching of new technology...”
– Economist.com
“I still really have no idea what it means to learn something. Are we talking...”
– Remote Access
August 2007
6 posts
“The good news is that my daughter’s teachers are at last beginning to use...”
– Pointing in the Wrong Direction
“we were treated to a shooting star every minute or two and even tracked a few...”
– BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Meteor shower: Your comments
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education. We want another class...”
– John Connell: the blog » Blog Archive » Values and the Future of Education
“one of the best-kept secrets of Mac OS X is that it includes a number of...”
– TidBITS: Why Go Pro (Audio Hijack Pro, That Is)
“Here’s an area I know very little about: Classic Opera. I am familiar with...”
– Radio DavidByrne.com
“To me, the Italians and French excelled at incorporating elements of regional...”
– Radio DavidByrne.com
July 2007
7 posts
“TVP: But having said that, isn’t it a bit uncanny that all of the...”
– Boing Boing: William Gibson explains why science fiction is about the present
“Danny, the little Grizzly cub, frolicked in the tall grass on this sunny Spring...”
– 2007 Results
“Web video is entering its third era, TV quality,” writes our good friend and...”
– NewTeeVee Is Web Video Ready for an HD Upgrade? «
“treat students as citizens of a modern world in which cultures and ideas are...”
– Social Media: How do we create better schools?
“It’s odd, really, that the average supermarket has changed more in the past five...”
– Social Media: How do we create better schools?
“these bans seem to be the result of businesses failing to recognize that home...”
– FACEBLOCK: Facebook Blocked by British Businesses
“My goal is to convince educators and education stakeholders to understand that...”
– 2¢ Worth 