Taran Rampersad wrote:
After the Axial Age, everyone became an expert.
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No one since history began has ever believed this
In fact, just the opposite- there are wonderful tales from all parts of
the world where persons were aske
I think that you should consider a comprehensive literature review of
databases in technology, economics, social sciences and business for a
resource list on this topic including using Google Print (new), Google
Scholar, and Scirus all on the web free. The commercial fee based
databases of servi
This is already happening in a number of cities: Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Albuquerque, etc. Internationally, there are a number Asian countries, with
the help of large corporations, is planning the implementation of wireless.
I know of implementations in Indonesia, Singapore, India, China and
Phi
Rest assured that it can be suppressed - it's not the same across China as
it is in many other places - but that's the least of it's power. A 12 year
old kid who does something meaningful and self-publishes on the net is
indistinguishable from an insightful Harvard faculty member with a chair.
Unli
Dear Will
I too will be at the conference so I look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
Ken
Ken Callaghan
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c/o Belfast Education and Library Board
40 Academy Street
BELFAST BT1 2NQ
Tel 028 9056 4263 (direct line)
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Hi:
Regardless of one's feelings toward MTV programming, I think a
high-profile project that rewards positive community work on a weekly
basis is a great thing-- especially if it's disseminated to the enormous
MTV audience.
Networks like MTV are amoral. They pull in audiences. They'll air great
p
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Sabra:
I attended the regional N-TEN meeting in Chicago couple of months ago. Found
the meeting impresesive. The vendor booths were particularly informative.
Now to the punch line.
It would be interestin
While Ms. Coombs is quite right that education as we know it requires a
teacher, her argument is an excellent example of the problems faced by
professional educators. She raises a false premise that technology and
teaching are somehow alternatives, and the quality of one affects the
quality - or pe
Ghana Opens Information Centres
The Government is to establish Community Information Centres (CIC) in
all the 230 constituencies to help create awareness on ICT in the rural
communities. It will also bridge the ICT gap between rural and urban
centres and expose the people to the relevant inform
Audrey, a good starting point would be a website specifically addressing to
this huge issue:
http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/
--davis.
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"Computers are useless...they only give us answers." --Pablo Picasso
Davis Park, Director of Community Technology Progr
That's all true, although there's also the risk that, for young people, any
act of altruism is linked to publicity - it's the "Extreme Home
Makeover"-ing of America. If the only motivation for doing good is to get
your 15 minutes of fame, that's a bad cultural shift. But I think we
started
Andy Carvin wrote:
> The reason why they're not showing up is that this thread is
> overwhelming the mailman software and is slowing down the list. All
> messages are being approved but are taking many hours to post. Once
> this thread dies down posting should speed up again, but until then,
> ple
I think that people who have mastered creative uses of technology could have
an impact on helping young people (and adults) move from random acts of
kindness to strategic, on-going actions of kindness, that have a greater
benefit than what might be the outcome of good intentions such as the MTV
pro
Siobhan,
I can do nothing but thank you for sending along the message about thinkMTV. I
hope you don't think that any of my railing was directed at you; I saw you as a
messenger on this. I really appreciate that you thought enough of DDN to post
the information.
Sincerely,
Jim Lerman
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There are many good websites on municipal and community wireless, but
I just saw a link today to a new one: CommunityInternet.us
http://www.communityinternet.us/
It includes six sample business plans, something I've needed in my own
efforts to establish community wireless in the Lower East Side o
Hi All,
I have been watching this discussion with a certain amount of
facscination. Having completed some research into the impact of
technology in education it is interesting to see the same rhetoric -
provide the technology and they will come. Students know what to do with
it. Not so according to
One of the things that I love about the DDN is this dialogue. I see the
word grant and youth programs and media, and think DDN!!! And I didn't
think of any of the other aspects, influences, etc of MTV. I appreciate
that this dialogue is taking place. We do have to be careful not to sell
out for the
The Library of Congress has useful free information. A good place to
start is with "Functional requirements for bibliographic records" at
http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF.
Doing a search from the LC homepage http://catalog.loc.gov/ for
particular items yields a screen from which you can c
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