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In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.Photo credit: Victor HabbickInside this Media Lit (Read More)
Boing Boing:
In today's Observer Business column, John Naughton discusses what a ripoff it is for ebook vendors to "sell" you books with abusive, multi-thousand word "license agreements," pretending that because you bought your book over the network, it wasn't a sale, and so you don't get to own it. These "licenses" aren't about uphold (Read More)
New York Times:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to spend more on health care and education and make it easier for foreign investors to participate in India’s $1.2 trillion economy.
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The Guardian:
The government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists.The schools minister, Diana Johnson, has confirmed the plans will be included in a blueprint for a new curriculum to be published in the next few weeks.It follows a letter signed by scientists a (Read More)
Engadget:
For those who've never really understood the mystique and allure surrounding Leica's retro-styled cameras (and their stratospheric price tags), here's a gallery of shots that might just lend a little insight into the fixation. The outfit's X1 was announced back in September, though initial shipments aren't expected to begin (Read More)
The Guardian:
Just as in my childhood, winning or losing together remains a basic lesson on the great field of lifeOne thing in life does not change. Here I am, back on the school touchline again. Mums are holding bottles of water. Noisy dads are shouting "Push up, son" or, more crudely, "Get stuck in, blues". Bored sisters are chatting (Read More)
The Guardian:
Yoani Sánchez says she was abducted, beaten and threatened for criticising Cuba's communist governmentCuba's most prominent dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez, said she was abducted, beaten and threatened by state security agents in Havana.Three men forced her and another blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo, into an unmarked car, rou (Read More)
The Guardian:
Contrary to Emma Thompson's scandalous association between Exeter and the BNP (BNP would love it here, actor tells students, 7 November), we know that the university is not racist. Not only is Exeter an especially welcoming place, but why should we feel guilty for belonging to a community perhaps more representative of the (Read More)
The Guardian:
As a parent with two children at Oxford School, one of the two schools the United Learning Trust is proposing to replace with an academy in September 2010, it was with dismay that I read your article about the ULT's failings with its existing academies (No more academies until standards rise, sponsor told, 6 November).My co (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Twelve months on, Martin Johnson has yet to display the flexibility needed to devise a winning England game planThe sight of Matt Banahan trundling back to retrieve yet another ball kicked high over his head, a big white container ship lost in a sea of green and gold torpedo boats, was perhaps the cruellest glimpse of Engla (Read More)
The Guardian:
Legendary mathematician whose work on integral geometry was vital to medical scannersIsrael Gelfand, who has died aged 96, was a major figure in mathematics for seven decades. His research ranged over most of pure maths, including algebra, analysis, and geometry. He also worked in mathematical biology, opening up the field (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Aqaba, JordanTo go to the sea as a Bedouin, is a strange thing. I am used to mountains, sand, more sand and even more sand. But water, that is something else.I started to feelo the water with my toes, but soon I went further. I saw p (Read More)