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Disrespect in Educationlukepalmer.wordpress.com
I was sitting at a large, round table with all the teachers of the CHOICE middle-school program sitting around me solemnly. They had called me here to inform me that, in my final year at middle sch... -
OnLive shuts down streaming games service, sells patents to Sonyarstechnica.com
The industry's first experiment in server-streamed gaming comes to an end. -
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Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Oneyoutube.com
First of a 5-part series. Playlist: http://goo.gl/ilCrn5 Part two: http://youtu.be/a1yBP5t-fSA ► Question? Email me: stu@rtbrown.org Or ask on Twitter: http:... -
Meet the most fascinating part of the F-35: The &u0024;400,000 helmetwashingtonpost.com
To truly understand the F-35, the most expensive weapons program in the history of the Pentagon, forget the plane for a minute. Consider the helmet. -
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Massive study on MOOCsnews.harvard.edu
A Harvard and MIT study’s findings suggest that teachers often constitute a significant portion of the participants in MOOCs; that learner intentions matter; and that those with financial stakes have higher completion rates. -
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Thinking (very) small to give dream houses to the homeless | Al Jazeera Americaamerica.aljazeera.com
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How constantly moving as a kid helped me discover my love of computer sciencewashingtonpost.com
When my family moved from Mumbai to New Mexico I knew no one. Then my dad lost his job. -
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Why Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi is so expensive (and why it blocks video)fortune.com
Michael Small discusses the huge demand by airline passengers for the Internet, congestion problems, and his plan to get more bandwidth to planes. -
The Economist’s Tom Standage on digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertisingniemanlab.org
"The Economist has taken the view that advertising is nice, and we’ll certainly take money where we can get it, but we’re pretty much expecting it to go away." -
As analytics enlighten across sports, tennis remains stuck in dark agetheguardian.com
Tennis has an analytics problem – and it’s time for the decentralized powers governing the sport to play ball with the public -
What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Moneyhyperallergic.com
When I was editing our story about Canadians "spocking" their $5 bills, I discovered something curious: you can't Photoshop money. -
Fast-growing Canadian startup VarageSale raises $34-million from Silicon Valley investorstheglobeandmail.com
VarageSale, a Canadian-made app that serves as a virtual garage sale, aims to bring back ‘that small-town feeling’ -
Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF paymenttelegraph.co.uk
'We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,' says senior Greek official -
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