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Ken Fisher - The Question of Banning Laptops in Class: It's Academic, Silly - Ars Technica
The Chronicle of Higher Education has come out with yet another vaguely anti-technology article, this time about giving professors the capacity to shut down wireless access in a classroom. But more interesting is this essay in response by Ken Fisher pointing out that shutting down wireless will not only annoy students, it merely delays the inevitable. "Telecommunications companies such as Verizon already offer high-speed wireless EVDO to laptop users in major metro From OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Jay Cross - More Signal, Less Noise - Informal Learning
A nice write-up by Jay Cross of the current ADETA Newsletter (well worth a look) but with some nice irony. Cross writes about the A-List blogging set, "The A-list blogosphere is an immense echo chamber," and comments, "The training and development world sometimes suffers the same narrowmindedness." Well maybe. And I certainly agree with him when he says we should consult "non-traditional sources." But who is featured in the ADETA Newsletter? Jay Cross, George Siemens, Harold Jarche. Maybe these are non-traditional sources - but to me, they are From OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Miles Berry - Becta Open Source Seminar - Miles Berry : Weblog
Summary coverage of an open source workshop hosted by BECTA. Good comprehensive set of notes, including "a whole of host of possible strategies" to promote the use of open source in institutions. "Key points included the need for the open source community to focus on additionality and adding new value rather than mere replacing existing systems, the need to focus on real world problems and demonstrate to government what open source solutions to particular government policies would look like." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Unattributed - http://www.captaincopyright.ca
Clarence Fisher points to a new website for students and teachers, Captain Copyright, providing free lesson plans and materials. The site, which appears to be promoted by Canada's copyright clearance industry (see the heavy-handed IP notice), is thinly veiled propaganda - the copyright violator in the kids' carton actually steals the drawings from the comic book artist before selling them in the hall for a quarter each. Interesting that t From OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Sian Harris, ed. - Consensus is Difficult in Open-Access Debate - Research Information
Stevan Harnad writes, via email: "Research Information has just published a series of interviews by editor Sian Harris on Open Access." Some provocative quotes: "'Open access is much wider than just readers not paying,' Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals; 'Academics have access anyway,' Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier; 'Self-archiving should be mandatory,' Steven Harnad, U Quebec at Montreal and U Southampton." [Link] [Tags: Infor From OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

James Daly - Editor's Note - Edutopia
Via Chris Lehmann, I agree with this: "Just as supermarket magnates realized that when people shop for groceries, they want to do more than stock the fridge, we need to understand that the final result of a dozen years of education isn't just a gilt-trimmed diploma. It's about creating a brighter and more compassionate society. First, however, we must devote as much energy and thinking to our schools as we do our food emporiums." On a related note: my talk at the Open Univ From OLDaily on June 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

A 'hole in the wall' helps educate India
An experiment in public computers offers opportunity to children in slums. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on June 1, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in April, 2006
Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in April, 2006 From ClickZ Stats on June 1, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..