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I am heading to MacWorld today and plan to publish via iPhone. Already off to a bad start with the rescheduling of David Pogue to Wednesday.

Just finished watching a lecture by Lawrence Lessig from Stanford.  His latest book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy deals with the need to update copyright/fair use laws to reflect the way it is being used as a communication platform by kids.  Had to include this fabulous mash-up he gace as an example:

This is from Dan’s posting a few days ago.

Deborah Meier is an advocate of smaller community-based schools. Her piece in the November 2002 Boston Review Educating a Democracy: Standards and the future of public education sends a welcome shot across the bow of the misguided ship HMS Standards-Based Reform Movement. Citing the school board of Lynnfield, Massachusetts’s attempt to end METCO, a program bringing minority children of color into nearly all-white, middle class, suburban communities because the program wasn’t helping “raise their standards” as an example, Meier asserts that such attempts reveal, “a dark side of the standard’s-based reform movement in American education,” which she describes as a “a fundamentally misguided approach to school reform.” Meier does not believe that standards should be tossed out. She questions the political motivation behind the movement as well as the assertion that weaknesses in public education were responsible for undermining the economy. She believes in a different approach embracing smaller schools and Sizer’s belief that standards must be “held by real people who matter in the lives of our young.”

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I was reading Tim Wilson’s blog looking for information about purchasing equipment when I came across a couple postings I will republish – one a list of ways podcasts can be used in the classroom and the other an interesting way of encouraging administrators to drink the podcast Kool-Aid.

The post I was looking for is below:

The Podcave (an update)

December 24th, 2005 | by Tim Wilson |

I posted a while ago about my new podcasting microphone, but I
thought I’d post an updated photo of the podcave. If you click through
to the photo on Flickr you’ll be able to see some additional
information about the equipment. The new gear includes a Heil PL-2 boom, Electro-Voice RE20, and Model 309 shockmount.

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The How session notes

Looking forward to hearing how to deploy new systems.  However, I started my day with a Keynote from David Pogue of the NYTimes – an excellent choice.

Macworld Live! with David Pogue

Feature Presentations  9:00am – 10:00am      West Hall 3010

Speakers:                  

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The Why Session Notes

3 excellent sessions

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Event Notice

Kicked off this year’s macWorld by attending the John Lennon Bus event Tuesday night sponsored by the education group at Apple.

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