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All it Costs to Fix the World is 60 Million Dollars
First, let’s get clear about this: sixty million dollars is not a lot of money. Let’s think about a few things that cost in that price range. The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » ...
Richard Scoble on the State of Blogging, Commenting, the World, etc.
Normally I make it a personal mission to tune our Richard Scoble. He would fall under the classification of "celebrity blogger", someone who's influence over "what's hot" in the tech community ...
Education Week Article Makes Me a Prophet
The latest Education Week issue has a profile of teachers embracing "open resources", those that are free to the public and easy to tweak for whatever your personal needs may be. ...
An Open Software Services Ecology :: autonomo.us
One of the suggestions of the Franklin Street Declaration is for programmers to “[d]evelop software that can replace centralized services.” I’ve taken that suggestion to heart in creating ...
An Amazing Workshop Starts Tomorrow–Would Attend if not for Freakin Grad School Orientation
A hands-on approach to Third World aid - MIT News Office via kwout I must say that it's a bit comforting knowing that I live down the road from M.I.T. ...
Oamos Opens Up Meta-Search for Embedding on Websites
Affected Clapping previewed the new Oamos meta-data search engine back in May, and it seems the developer has been busy. Registered users can now embed the search engine right into their ...
Excellent Article on the “Difficulty” of Learning Math
Written by Marvin Minsky, a contributor to the One Laptop Per Child Organization. What makes Mathematics hard to learn? - OLPC via kwout
A Student’s Revealing Speech
Two weeks ago my school had a dinner for all the mentors, a celebratory affair thanking them for their hard work. Several students spoke. I asked to reprint one student's speech, as ...
Sir Ken Robinson Addresses a Group of Superintendents @ The Apple Education Leadership Summit
If you've seen Sir Ken Robinson's speech at TED, this will seem very familiar. However, this time Robinson addressed a bunch of Superintendents from around the world at Apple's ...
Open-Source Professional Development: Teachers Are Already Doing It!
I stumbled on this post this morning, which led me to a Powerpoint presentation teaching educators how to use Google Docs, EDITED BY OVER 500 people! ...
Open-Source Sewing?
Yup, that's right. Over at Burdastyle they're doing what's called Open-Source Sewing. Make your own design, "improve" on other people's. Mix and match. It's a loose application of the term ...
“Bronx 8th-graders boycott practice exam” (From NY Daily News)
A revealing article in the NY Daily News (who knew?) on Wednesday about 8th graders protesting "yet another" standardized test. You can read the article here. What's more interesting are the ...
Xoost Offers Real People (Shocking!) Helping You Search Online (revenue model to come later this year)
My name is Xoost and I'm here to show you a new way of searching the web. This is the deal: with me you will search what you like, you will connect ...
“Students discover beauty through their cameras” (in Rwanda)
From Global Venture I found this article, published in Rwanda's Sunday Times from Global Venture, via Paul Allison's excellent blog, New Journalism. To know Rwanda is to know ...
SourceForge: Open-Source Software Depository
What has SourceForge done for you lately? As of today (it's updated daily) there's 273,633 pieces of software available to be downloaded and opened up: take a look at their guts ...