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		<title>What the dickens?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the new UK education minister is channeling Thomas Gradgrind: Pupils must learn about Miss Havisham, says Minister They don&#8217;t know enough facts, he says. Maybe it&#8217;s the fact that Mr. Gibbs does not know enough about Charles Dickens, the age of information and learning theory. Not to mention that his frame of reference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital literacy across the curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not about the tools and the testing, it&#8217;s about the learning and the thinking. Digital literacy is an important entitlement for all young people in an increasingly digital culture. Every school should have an organized policy for language across the curriculum… Two documents, two eras. The first from FutureLab (UK) &#8211; a wonderful introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The death of education as we know it may be the birth of learning as we need it”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m more than a bit late with my NAIS annual conference round up but then …excuses, excuses…what with returning to Poughkeepsie with a rotten cold,  the remaining effects of a  mega storm that closed school for three days (ably dealt with by Steve Mallet and the division heads) and then all the catching up…. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“School reform today is like a freight train, and I’m out on the tracks saying, ‘You’re going the wrong way!’ ” I’ve always respected Diane Ravitch even as I have often disagreed with her.  And her on-line and ongoing exchanges with Deborah Meier Bridging Differences have been a model of intelligent debate conducted with an informed  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I know you are into technology &#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well – yes – I suppose I am, and I always have been. As I child I haunted the school library and, while I didn’t quite read every book, I was certainly familiar with every shelf. I had a town library card at five and usually reached the limit of two fiction and one nonfiction [...]]]></description>
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