Tag Archive | "privacy"
Managing Your Facebook Privacy
I developed a document for my work to provide an overview of the privacy options in Facebook. I’ve modified it a bit for personal use and thought that others might find it helpful. Of course, this will likely be out-of-date within a month, given the way Facebook’s privacy settings and offerings continue to evolve, but [...]
Continue reading...Freedom of Photography in D.C.
Monday, July 26, 2010
A good article in The Washington Post provides an overview of the tensions between photographers and law enforcement. The bottom line: photography in public places is protected unless explicitly stated otherwise. Courts have long ruled that the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to take photographs in public places. Even after the terrorist attacks [...]
Continue reading...Google Book Search and Privacy
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
From EFF: In the objection filed today, the coalition asks the court to require Google to create a robust privacy policy that gives readers as much privacy in online books as they have in a library or a bookstore and to ensure that the policy is enforceable and overseen by the court on an ongoing [...]
Continue reading...So Much Wrong
Monday, April 7, 2008
I don’t even know where to begin with this recent article from New York Magazine, “Testing Horace Mann,” about the fallout (or lack thereof) from offensive student postings on Facebook. It’s at the center of the current technology-related problems schools face. Part of this has to do with new problems the technology makes possible, but [...]
Continue reading...The Killer EdApp
Saturday, February 24, 2007
This Wednesday (Feb. 28th, 2007), I’ll be talking with Paul Allison and others on TeachersTeachingTeachers.org about various CMS (Community Management System) solutions for schools. Specifically, I’ll be talking about Joomla. I’ve written some notes on Joomla before, and have been talking to a few teachers in other districts about its potential for the classroom. For [...]
Continue reading...This is Getting Ridiculous
Monday, January 15, 2007
As if we needed more reasons for people to avoid the teaching profession and shy away from the use of technology: Norwich, Conn seventh grade teacher, Julie Amero has been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after her classroom PC displayed pornographic pop-ups in class. Slashdot | Teacher Found Guilty [...]
Continue reading...Important Things Require Vigilance
Sunday, January 14, 2007
As the end of the first semester closes in, it’s time to review what I’ve been doing in my classroom. I’ve been aware of the changes in my teaching and teaching philosophy over the last year or so, but only nebulously. I think I’ve needed to allow that vague drifting in order to stay free [...]
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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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Thursday, August 19, 2010
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