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• Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons | PI

  Fri Jul 28, 2006
  • Whoops, that line at the end of paragraph 1 read, take a look at Sodexho Marriot's profits from prisons...

• Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons | PI

  Fri Jul 28, 2006
  • I don't think that the U.S. justice policy assumes that incarceration solves many problems. The prisons are not designed to help people learn other modes of life. In fact, more and more prisons are being run by for-profit companies.

• Techlearning > > Podcasting 101 -- How Educators Can Use This New Technology > July 1, 2006

  Sun Jul 30, 2006
  • I have recently become a huge fan of podcasting. I and others are currently enrolled in the Webcast Academy, where they train you on how to run your own live webcast (and podcast it later it's free!). People can listen to you live and can chat with you while you are doing your show.

• Colleges at Newsvine

  Mon Apr 3, 2006
  • University of Michigan Teachers College, Columbia University

• SPU might shut down computer science curriculum

  Mon Apr 3, 2006
  • Wow, incredible story. I attended the Computer Science Teachers Association meeting this past summer where we discussed the drift between high school computer science programs and college ones. None of the discussion included possibilities of college programs disappearing...tragic.

• FIRE - NYU’s Shame

  Fri Mar 31, 2006
  • Contraversial topic to say the least. I can't say that I agree with the University decision, but I also understand their concerns.

• Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class

  Wed Mar 29, 2006
  • Carefull of jamming technologies though, the FCC is strict about that type of stuff. I can't include the link (Newsvine newbie status), but Google "fcc blocking wireless"

• The 8th Grade Editor in Chief - Positive Student Use of the Internet

  Wed Mar 29, 2006
  • To be fair, he seeded an article about him, but not BY him. It was by me though...so this might be self-defense or something like that. I would love to talk to high-schoolers who are using Newsvine or other websites for interesting and positive stuff.

• Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class

  Wed Mar 29, 2006
  • I wrote a review of this from an educators perspective and it mainly challenged the quotation by the teacher who said that the laptops created a "picket fence" between her and the students.

• Slashdot | Adapt to New Technology or Die

  Mon Mar 13, 2006
  • Aine, there are many of us who feel like you do. We don't want to be trapped by the major media companies who make textbooks, websites and other media. Try the course infowiki project that some of us are working on.