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The New Kindle 3

This looks like something that every one of my students would enjoy. Finally, a technology to get even the most apathetic student reading. What can’t digital technology accomplish?
I also like their tagline: “So advanced, even illiterates can use it!”

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Prop 8: The Musical

This video just points out the absurdity of Proposition 8 and ideologies that inform referenda like it. It reminds me of something the late, great George Carlin said (and I paraphrase poorly): right-wing anti-abortionists should be pro-gay. Who has less abortions than homosexuals?
Thanks to Becca for the original post on FB. While you’re there, sign [...]

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Don’t Need Anything

I’ve got gardens growing, got quiet days
clothes on my back, food on my plate
got friends to help me if I call for them
don’t need anything I don’t have
got eyes to see this beautiful land
feet to take me where I want to stand
if there’s work to be done, I’ve got these two strong hands
I don’t need [...]

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Giroux on Education

Henry Giroux states, in “Obama and the Promise of Education“:
One of the most important challenges, especially for educators, facing the US in a post-Bush period, is to take seriously the educational force of a culture that is central to constructing a new type of citizen. What is needed are citizens defined less through the hatred [...]

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