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Unattributed - Teenager Repellent Mosquito Turned Into Ringtone - Ringtonia
It sounds a lot like an urban legend, but if true would be too funny: a report states that teenagers are now using ringtones audible only to them in an effort to use mobile phones in places where they are prohibited, like the classroom. "The kids call it Teen Buzz, and it's spreading it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth." [Link] [Tags: Children and Child Learning] [Comment] From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Jay Cross - Cynefin and a Girl's Birthday - Informal Learning
"Imagine organising a birthday party for a group of young children. Would you agree a set of learning objectives with their parents in advance of the party? Would those objectives be aligned with the mission statement for education in the society to which you belong?" It seems so obvious when you put it like that, and yet so many theorists insist that education (and learning) is something different. More from the Cynefin Centre - which really needs to create RSS feeds and to allow people to read articles without registering. [OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers - The Myth of Superman - Wired
Today's article in Wired tells a story about Superman. "His real-world origin is more humble: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish kids from Cleveland, created him as a character in a newspaper comic strip. But the strip didn't sell, so they reformatted it and flipped it to a publisher hungry to buy content for one of the first comic books... It's a classic American success story on a couple of levels. Two outsiders create a new art form, and Superman 'an alien in a strange land' takes off." Wired is reiterating the myth. The reality, though, is more illu From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Catherine Ann Velasco - Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom to Teach - Suburban Chicago News
More of the same. "The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck. "I feel like they are trying to control his freedom of speech. He is sitting at home on a computer on a Web site you can't access from school. He is saying, 'You can't bully people and we have a right to object and you can't throw people out of school for voicing their opinions.'" [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Laura Ascione - Site Connects Users to Education Research - ESchool News
Coverage of Rice's Connexions project. This is an odd article in that it describes Connexions as "an online library where colleagues can submit professional journal articles and review the work of their peers." This in contrast to the description at Connexions itself: "Our Content Commons contains small 'knowledge chunks' we call modules that connect into courses." The author seems to be more focused on an NCPEA project started in 2004, which did indeed produce articles and subject t From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

George Siemens - Learning in Synch with Life: New Models, New Processes - Complexive Systems
George Siemens has released a white paper created, as he says, "for Google's 2006 Training Summit." It's a nice breezy account of Connectivism, written in classic white paper style with many useful images and graphics. I am intrigued to note that it is copyrighted to "Complexive Systems Inc.," a consulting and reserach firm founded by Siemens. I will note that the last section of the paper ('Implementation') could have been dropped with no loss. Indeed, saying things like 'analysis before implementation can prevent costly errors' and 'develop the skills of le From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Alexander Hayes - [M]applications : Mobile Learning Inquisition
Sometimes the best conversations take a few months to gell. Like this one. Responding to January 4 post from Alec Hayes, Stephanie Rieger opines that we do not see student generated mobile content because "making mobile content right now is cost-prohibitive and available only to those with large budgets." That was in J From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Various authors - Pageflakes
Another entry in the personal aggregator sweepstakes, this application again looks like the way an e-portfolio should look, more or less (I sent a bunch of suggestions to the designers). Meanwhile, Michael Feldstein says the same of another service called Tabblo. Meanwhile, as Seb reports in his latest newsletter, EDUCAUSE has a nice RSS aggregator. Each From OLDaily on May 25, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

CrazyBusy
I have really been looking forward to Edward Hallowell's new book CrazyBusy, Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap, Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. The only ADD book I've seen that's better than his earlier Driven to Distraction is its sequel Delivered from Distraction. Last year Hallowell wrote an article for Harvard Business [...] From Internet Time Blog on May 25, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..