next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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My nomination for one of the top ten sites on the web. It’s an amazing resource, a virtual museum/library of information. This is a must explore. And be sure to make time to wander. Here’s a quote from the about-us page re IA’s mission: “The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit [...]
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[From The Internet Archive:]
March 27, 2008
Internet Archive Brings Free Ultra High-Speed Internet to Public Housing
San Francisco – The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the Internet, today began offering free Internet service to public housing projects at speeds far greater than any [...]
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[Text from the Photoshop Express site:]
Amp up and show off your photos. You shot it — now do something to it. Make it pop. Make it impossible to ignore. Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to all your images. [...]
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See this video (first on the left) about “The Flip Ultra Video Recorder,” which could be everyone’s entry into shooting for web sharing. For about $200, we can all have a simple way to shoot and post videos on the web via the USB port. No tapes or discs — it records up to 60 [...]
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“Online advising” seems to have two general meanings: (1) self-advising via programed webpages and (2) interactive advising. The second version is divided into either synchronous (live) or asynchronous chat. The Lower Columbia College model is both interactive and live.
The LCC homepage has a very simple design, but this simplicity is its strength. Notice the prominent [...]
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Matt Baum (The Colonnade): “GCSU [Georgia College & State U] is set to enact a new and approved advising plan for students and professors as part of a system-wide initiative among schools in the University System of Georgia. The new system that will include, among other things, an online advising handbook for each major and [...]
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Marketwire: “Tomorrow and Wednesday, an anticipated 50,000 attendees from 40+ countries will log onto the World Wide Web tomorrow (March 25 and 26, 2008 — from 12:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT) to participate in CollegeWeekLive, the largest-ever virtual college fair. Designed to foster connections that are impossible in the physical world, the online environment [...]
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John Markoff (NY Times): “[Sun Microsystems] plans to announce on Monday that it has received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore the high-risk idea of replacing the wires between computer chips with laser beams. The technology, part of a field of computer science known as silicon photonics, would eradicate the most daunting [...]
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From: Ivan Sinclair [ivan.sinclair@gmail.com]Date: Fri 3/21/2008 9:21 AMRe: Invitation to Evernote
Hi Jimmy – I’ve been using Evernote and I think you’d like it. It lets me capture all things I want to save and I can easily find them anytime. Great for research. Check this…you can take a digital [...]
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Sam Dillon (NY Times): “Many states use an inflated graduation rate for federal reporting requirements under the No Child Left Behind law and a different one at home. As a result, researchers say, federal figures obscure a dropout epidemic so severe that only about 70 percent of the one million American students who start ninth [...]
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