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Gnuosphere on File Sharing
Peter Rock has been graciously helping me continue to think about copyright over on his blog. It started with his post "sharing denies nothing" in which he says: Most certainly, file sharing does not include payment (hence “sharing”), but that’s very different than an active “denying” of payment. While the difference is subtle, it is [...]
Continue reading...Lessig on TED
Friday, December 21, 2007
I’m still reading Larry Lessig’s Free Culture, which is excellent so far. In the meantime, while following the Lane Hartwell controversy, I found a link to Lessig’s March, 2007 talk at TED (posted Nov. ’07). He ends with a strong emotional appeal about how this controversy is affecting and will continue to affect “kids”: We [...]
Continue reading...More on Books and Reading
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Over the last week or so, reading and the role of books have been popping up everywhere, it seems: Reading is getting a lot of play in the press: the NEA warned that Americans are reading less and their proficiency is declining, though it appears the NEA needs to learn how to read data. Then, [...]
Continue reading...Helping Students Cheat
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between teaching knowledge and teaching skills. As the internet changes how we find and use knowledge, it becomes increasingly clear that what we should be teaching are the skills: research, critical analysis, writing, reading a variety of texts, speaking and presenting, etc. When I hear teachers bemoan the [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2007
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