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Everything wants to be free
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting bit on Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future Of A Radical Price (read online), where he pulls out some points that are potentially important to the educational realm as well as economics in general. “From the consumer’s perspective, there is a huge difference between cheap and free,” Anderson writes.…
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The thin edge?
For some reason, my reply to one of the comments on the Liberating Learning review doesn’t seem to be coming up, so I thought I would post it here. Gordon Otto wrote: In Canada, there are about 6 million K-12 students. About $2,000 per year each is spent teaching them math. That’s $12 billion per…
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Technology or Unions – which is the problem?
I saw this story pop up on WSJ in my reader this morning and then I noticed it in Growing Up Digital as well. Liberating Learning (Moe, T.M. and Chubb, J.E.) claims that technology might be the way to get around many of the “blocks” that have been put up with regards to change in…
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Scott McCloud on Comics
If you have 20 minutes, take a look at this TED talk on comics. It is interesting how he explains how comics gain their power – channeling all elements through the visual media that they use. It is really interesting how he takes a look at how ancient glyphs worked and how the first CDs…