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You don't have to whisper . . .: Carol Smilgin Speaks

You don't have to whisper . . .: Carol Smilgin Speaks: Come meet Carol Smilgin and hear about her new novel, Provenance : "When Jeffrey Lawler inherits a pair of masterworks by two famous Eu...

NY Times Article: Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad

ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools.

A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.

As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20 to the students and teachers in two humanities classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students . . . (More)

Bohemian Rhapsody, for Four Violins

Joe Edmonds

Information Overload

Article in the Boston Globe about Information Overload which gives a great history of information overload and discusses the role of librarians and information organization. Also, an interesting reflection on the new era of information overload in the age of digitized information.

Wikileaks leaks over

Wikileaks article in the Harvard Business Review discussing the private speech and public speech.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8473

How to use cellphones in High School Classrooms

Here's a great way to use cellphones in High School Chemistry classes, provide the kids with a high-quality learning experience, and save the school money. It doesn't get any more useful than that!

Camera Phones as Spectrometers

Set the bar high for kids, encourage the use of technology, show them that science is accessible and a daily part of their experience, and you will find yourself surrounded by excited and eager future scientists.

Set a mediocre bar, ban the use of technology, and make science about fact recitation instead of self discovery, and you will find yourself surrounded by bored and sullen teenagers.
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