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		<title>Paraguay’s Landfill Orchestra: the creative urge knows no bounds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece in today’s Guardian led me to this amazing example of human endeavour and creativity in the worst circumstances. Wonderful!]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming the Schooled Mind</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean Connery, in his thoughtful memoir Being A Scot, tells the story of finding himself on a plane seated next to a compatriot, a young woman. Talking to her, he found that she was a literature student at the University of Edinburgh, and that she was currently studying Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. “Do you see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educated, not State-Educated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed reading the reaction in the UK media following Eddie Mair’s typically relaxed laceration of The Man Who Would Be King on Newsnight at the weekend. Mair, for me, as someone who listens to a lot of radio, has been one of the best radio journalist in the UK since I used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digitizing the Parish Pump</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evgeny Morozov dismantles the lazy thinking and the fundamentally anti-progressive notions outlined in Gavin Newsom’s recent book: Citizenville:How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government [bad book, so no link!]. California’s lieutenant governor is taken apart in an article in Bookforum. [It is his] lack of any basic curiosity about the technological solutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Risk of Learning Without Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, German philosopher and provocateur, Peter Sloterdijk, proclaimed ‘the end of the belief in education’. Despite society’s declaration that Knowledge Is Power, young people, he said, live… …with the risk of learning without prospects. Those who do not seek power will…not want its knowledge…and those who reject both are secretly no longer citizens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education’s Conspicuous and Abiding Fallacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a conspicuous and abiding fallacy residing at the heart of formal education, namely that what is taught is what is learned, that what the teacher teaches is what the student learns. Education systems, schools, college and universities around the world today rest, as they have done for much of their existences, on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celestine Talks to Education Fast Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are strategies that teachers and schools can employ to ensure that technology becomes purposeful and systematic. There can be little doubt that its potential is very great, as it provides the opportunity for effective teaching of skills, of finding and using information within a context of high student interest. This unique combination is too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EFF White Paper: From Learner Voice To Emerging Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The knowledge necessary to function successfully and follow a career was seen to already exist: it could be handed down from experts and leaders to learners and workers. In the Industrial Age, curriculum development was a matter of selecting the most important knowledge to transmit to students; experts decided what knowledge to mass-prescribe and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 16 Hackneyed Lists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, they are not the top anything — just 16 I happened to lift out of Twitter in the space of an hour or so last night Am I the only person who now automatically ignores any tweet or post that starts with either a number or with ‘Top X…’? 10 steps technology directors can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howard Gardner, speaking in a video on the DML Central site: I don’t believe for a moment in technological determinism. I believe any technology can be used benignly and malignantly. You can use a pen to write beautiful poetry. You can also use a pen to poke peoples’ eyes out. Gardner doesn’t ‘believe’ in technological [...]]]></description>
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