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		<title>Golden Swamp goes big picture with Handschooling.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new website Handschooling.com has been spun off of GoldenSwamp.com. Click this line to go there to see what is a big picture of exciting new serendipitously, wonderful brand new way to learn in the 21st century.

Here is why I created Handschooling.com, from the About section of the new website:
Handschooling will — at last — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/28/golden-swamp-goes-big-picture-with-handschooling-com/</link>
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		<title>Mobile access to school standards testing creates equality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let any child anywhere use his or her mobile to take the school standards tests. All the time now the corporate training world, people learn, are tested, and are certified using their internet connection. Take a look, for example, at the Adobe Certification center.

The Washington Post reports this morning that the &#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/19/mobile-access-to-school-standards-testing-creates-equality/</link>
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		<title>Learning basic history, science, math in kids&#8217; hands</title>
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Every boy in the picture above (by Griff Witte/the Washington Post) can learn basic history, science, math and more &#8212; in spite of what is reported today in a front page Washington Post story:
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN &#8212; With a curriculum that glorifies violence in the name of Islam and ignores basic history, science and math, Pakistan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/17/learning-basic-history-science-math-in-kids-hands/</link>
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		<title>Dwarf dance debuts new knowledge while standards setters lock in the old</title>
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Will school science continue to teach the long-standing problem in cosmology about how dwarf galaxies form? I don&#8217;t know if/where schools teach the dwarf problem, but I do know curriculum and testing standards lock in old knowledge to what is taught and tested.
When I watched the video above this morning, I was only the 302nd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/15/dwarf-dance-debuts-new-knowledge-while-standards-setters-lock-in-the-old/</link>
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		<title>Carnival of the Mobilists reviews recent Golden Swamp post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out Carnival of the Mobilists #206, online today at mobiThinking. The carnival is a weekly round-up of fresh thinking about mobile from the leading bloggers in the field. 
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		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/13/carnival-of-the-mobilists-reviews-recent-golden-swamp-post/</link>
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		<title>Texas is busy today setting standards for history to be taught for 10 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next ten years, what kids across America will be taught about history is being set out right now by the Texas State Board of Education. Yahoo!News describes what is happening in a news story today: Texas braces for fight over social studies lessons. We learn from this report that: &#8220;Much of the conversation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/13/texas-is-busy-today-setting-standards-for-history-to-be-taught-for-10-years/</link>
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		<title>Internet home access to low-income families de-fangs savage inequalities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home Access scheme to provide internet access to low-income families has gone live in England. Silicon.com reports:&#8220;PC giveaway for school kids is go: 270,000 low-income families getting internet access at home courtesy of the government&#8230;&#8221;  It is hopeful to think about the possibilities here in contrast to my post yesterday about the persistent and deepening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/13/internet-home-access-to-low-income-families-de-fangs-savage-inequalities/</link>
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		<title>Handschooling is a new weapon against Savage Inequalities</title>
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At the end of 2009 we read this headline: Detroit students&#8217; scores a record low on national test. This is once again the sad echo of what, in his 1991 best seller, Jonathan Kozol called Savage Inequalities: Children in America&#8217;s Schools. A quotation on the cover of Savage Inequalities from New York Times book reviewer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/11/handschooling-is-a-new-weapon-against-savage-inequalities/</link>
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		<title>Five Star OER: Scientists explain their major new discovery about Walking Tetrapods</title>
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NatureNews reported yesterday that the clock for four-legged creatures has been turned back 18 million years. Anyone connected to the internet can learn this new information from the scientists who made the discovery. The video above is narrated by one of these paleontologists and the report from NatureNews sketches the facts.
As OER (open educational resources) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/07/five-star-oer-scientists-explain-their-major-new-discovery-about-walking-tetrapods/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Tablet, as Imagined by Book Publishers</title>
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This video is described on MarketWatch as &#8220;Apple&#8217;s Tablet, as Imagined by Book Publishers&#8221;:
This video created by Coursesmart, a joint venture of five textbook publishers, shows how students might use tablet-based textbooks. It is based on their own renderings, not specific applications being developed with Apple.
Terrific as the use of textbooks on the imagined device [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2010/01/05/apples-tablet-as-imagined-by-book-publishers/</link>
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