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why usage based billing will hurt online education (and other interesting things) | D'Arcy Norman dot net
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Literacy for the Information Generation
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Cairo’s trash city and lessons on recycling, trash…
For generations, the Zabaleen people have hauled away Cairo’s refuse and lived on the fringes of society. But thanks to an enterprising recycling school, the poor and mostly illiterate inhabitants of "Trash City" are receiving education and job training for the first time. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Egypt.
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Speaking Freely - Marshall McLuhan 4 Jan 1971, Public Broadcasting/N.E.T.
"Where would you look for the message in an electric light?" Spend nearly an hour with University of Toronto professor of English, Marshall McLuhan, as he discusses electronic technology, transportation, and communications. Also probing the issues of acoustic and personal space, McLuhan expresses his thoughts about print media and where it’s headed. Author of several books including The Medium is the Message, Canadian-born McLuhan was also director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Originally aired on PBS-TV, 4 January, 1971 at 8:00 p.m. (Philadelphia, PA area), McLuhan appeared on "Speaking Freely," hosted by NBC’s Edwin Newman.
Download the file. Take notes. Observe how current and relevant much of McLuhan’s message is in today’s Internet world.
Tagged with mcluhan media technology future semiotics u of t television best literacy communications
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‘Gr8 Db8’ Defends The Linguistics Of Texting : NPR
LOL. OMG. BRB. Text messages and instant messenger programs have spawned a variety of abbreviations and shortcuts that are sneaking into colloquial English. In his new book, Txtng, David Crystal takes on the h8ers who want to know why kids these days are too lazy to use vowels.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97700573
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Encouraging Reading - Stephen Kraschen
The development of reading skills is one of the most important goals of education, and Dr. Stephen Krashen of the University of Southern California is one of…
http://www.archive.org/details/WesleyA.FryerPodcast80EncouragingReadingbyStephenKrashen