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Live blog from Learning 2006 Opening Session
Learning 2006 This is a live blog post from Learning 2006. ItTMs Sunday evening. 1800 people fill the ballroom at the Coronado Springs resort. Opens with 10-year old playing MozartTMs Goldberg Variations. Elliott asks us all to contemplate what it takes to acquire these skills. Practice, love, feedback, and a sense of opportunity and joy. “Learning 2006 [...] From
New York Times: Education on November 5, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..
Online Maps Aid Eco Mine Fight
Stop whacking the tops off our mountains! Opponents of mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia use Google Earth to show the real impact of the scarred countryside with aerial photos. From
Wired News on November 5, 2006 at 3:46 p.m..
Dems Challenge Post of Iraq Docs
The Bush administration posts classified documents detailing Saddam's nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal website. Democratic senators question the timing of the posting, which includes weapons' design info, just days before midterm elections. From
Wired News on November 5, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..
Interpreting the Web like Scripture? A podcast with AKMA
Tom Matrullo has posted a lovely and insightful review of AKMA's Faithful Interpretation, along with incisive and engaged comments from The Happy Tutor. They dig deep into perhaps the central question AKMA's book poses: If we accept the idea that interpretations are only right or wrong within a community, do we then have to embrace ideas of interpretation—say, a literal fundamentalism—that (a) dispute this interpretation of interpretation and (b) may be dangerously wrong? One of the many things I like about AKMA's approach is the insistence that interpreting is a mor From
Joho the Blog on November 5, 2006 at 1:49 p.m..
Snapping the leaflets
Betsy Devine writes: On the last Sunday before Election Day, Republican operatives go out in force with a last-minute message to stick under windshield wipers. And mainstream media is too slow, too divided, to report on what people are being told. But those "secret messages" won't be secret if you and I take the time to make them public. So, she suggests that we go to our local churches, photograph the flyers, upload them to Flilckr, and tag them Election2006. Betsy apparently only came up with the idea this morning, which means it's not going to have time to make... From
Joho the Blog on November 5, 2006 at 12:48 p.m..
Forum with Michael Krasny - this Monday
I'll be in SF for a couple of days this week - doing an event for Institute for the Future. And though I was unable to secure a bookstore event at such late notice (I was hoping for a lunchtime talk at Stacy's, but they were booked up months in advance) I will be doing the best radio show in town,
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasney on Monday at 10am. The topic is my latest book, Get Back in the Box. But, as always, I'm sure we'll venture from there into new turf. If we're going From
rushkoff.blog on November 5, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..
The Threat of the Network
Alex Reid has a pretty provocative post at his Digital Digs blog that looks more deeply at some of the reasons this all is such a struggle. Here’s one section that jumped out to me: In other words, they [his students] continue to view their profession as one that will be founded on a discrete, unchanging [...] From
weblogged News on November 5, 2006 at 10:47 a.m..
The Overconnecteds
What does it mean to be in touch with all those friends, all at once, all the time? Listening in on students' digital conversation... From
New York Times: Education on November 5, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..