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Writing Workshop, Part 1 | huffenglish.com
Writing Workshop, Part 1 | huffenglish.com
Of the subjects I proposed in my previous post, Writing Workshop received the most #1 votes. Google Docs rubrics received more votes if you count #2 and #3+ votes, but since I technically didn&#821…
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Writing Workshop, Part 1 | huffenglish.com
We still haven't reached the tipping point in Ed Tech.
We still haven't reached the tipping point in Ed Tech.
Over the past two weekends I have attended regional conferences where teachers that teach the sciences and that teach academically advanced students, gathered for professional development. On both...
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We still haven't reached the tipping point in Ed Tech.
Obama’s Flip-Flop on Spying
Obama’s Flip-Flop on Spying
By Jacob Sullum - President Obama claims he welcomes the public debate over government surveillance programs that track personal information about millions of innocent Americans. But if it were up to him, the debate never would have happened, since the programs would have remained secret. Furthermore, his administration is treating the whistleblower who made the debate possible as...
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Obama’s Flip-Flop on Spying
Corner Office Lessons in Leadership
Corner Office Lessons in Leadership
From time to time I like to pick up useful advice intended for people in business, and apply it to education. One of my favorite sources is the New York Times feature “The Corner Office.&#822…
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Corner Office Lessons in Leadership
Schneier on Security: Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Ba
Schneier on Security: Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Ba
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps the Internet backbone through secret agreements with major US telcos., but the US government still hasn’t admitted it. In late August, the Obama administration declassified a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Footnote 3 reads: The term ‘upstream collection’ refers to NSA’s interception of Internet communications as they transit [LONG REDACTED CLAUSE], [REDACTED], rather than to acquisitions directly from Internet service providers such as [LIST OF REDACTED THINGS, PRESUMABLY THE PRISM DOWNSTREAM COMPANIES]...
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Schneier on Security: Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Ba