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Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
“These children seemed to squirm at the implications of privilege, wealth, and power that ‘giving’ holds. The children denied their power, framing it as benign and neutral, not something actively sought out and maintained. This early conversation helped us see more clearly the children's contradictory thinking about power and authority, laying the groundwork for later exploration.”
legos  school  teaching  children  childhood  learning  capitalism  society  mutualism 
february 2008 by markpasc
dog or higher: phone sex with mars - or why latency matters as well as bandwidth
"Phone sex with Mars" should be the canonical example for explaining network latency. I deem it so
tech  net  learning  latency  bandwidth  phonesex_with_mars 
august 2006 by markpasc
The Chronicle: 4/7/2006: There Is Such a Thing as a Stupid Question
Remarkably similar to esr's How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, which properly implies asking for computer help is group self-education
questions  esr  information  learning  teaching  etiquette 
april 2006 by markpasc

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