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		<title>New book by Steven Brill describes how schools do not work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schools simply do not work as a way of teaching many individual children up to their potential. Schools do not work in teaching groups of children so that every child in a group has equal knowledge. Schools do not work so that a student in a failing inner city school has the same opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/08/20/new-book-by-steven-brill-describes-how-schools-do-not-work/</link>
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		<title>Untether student knowledge access from curricula, grades, tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I watched and listened to a recording of Lynda Weinman interviewing Will Richardson. The title of this free Webinar: Personal Learning Networks Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education &#8212; which is the title of a new book by Richardson.
The webinar is an hour long. Richardson describes his work aimed at making schools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/08/11/untether-student-knowledge-access-from-curricula-grades-tests/</link>
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		<title>Underlying tension for millennials against standardized education</title>
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The way Millennials live their lives &#8212; creating their own iPod playlists, designing their own Facebook pages grates against one-size-fits-all, industrial-era public education policies . . . . The preceding words are adjusted to education from a point made this week by conservative columnist Michael Barone:
In the wake of the 2008 election, I argued that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/08/03/underlying-tension-for-millennials-against-standardized-education/</link>
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		<title>The best that schools offer is never for everybody, mobile fixes that</title>
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Until mobile browsers existed, there has NEVER been a way to proved equal schooling to all children. The usual situation is for elite kids to have better schools. The effect of that is for the highest achieving kids in worse schools often to get a worse education than the low end achievers in the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/31/the-best-that-schools-offer-is-never-for-everybody-mobile-fixes-that/</link>
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		<title>Trees communicate using mycorrhizal network</title>
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Learn some fascinating facts about forest interactivity from Brian Lamb&#8217;s post Do trees communicate? Networks, networks… and from the 5-minute video by Dr. Suzanne Simard embedded there. Wow: Nature&#8217;s use of networks for sharing and managing ideas is awesome. We learn here that a forest is able to communicate among its trees which are in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/23/trees-communicate-using-mycorrhizal-network/</link>
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		<title>Challenge shows the innovative behavior of parrots and crows</title>
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A Public Library of Science (PLoS) One article describes challenging birds in the boxes shown above. Titled &#8220;Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New  Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm,&#8221; the article is an example of the excellence of science outside of the garden walls of online journals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/11/challenge-shows-the-innovative-behavior-of-parrots-and-crows/</link>
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		<title>Ocean Topics from Woods Hole go deep into watery knowledge</title>
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Dive into Ocean Topics with Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution experts. The Deeper Discovery page is a node in the network of knowledge from one of the world&#8217;s preeminent institutions in the field of ocean studies. Topics in the Deeper Discovery collection: Antarctic ecosystem, season, circulation, ecosystem, abundance, and human impact. There are also links chosen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/08/ocean-topics-from-woods-hole-go-deep-into-watery-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>BBC presents the British History Timeline</title>
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The challenge of making clear the long, complex history of Britain is met admirably by the interactive digital timeline across which the BBC has locked events and people into their positions. The timeline begins at 6000 BC marking the separation of Britain from the European mainland. As of this post, the most recent year is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/06/bbc-presents-the-british-history-timeline/</link>
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		<title>Tables of elements show how online subjects endure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 3 websites for periodic tables of elements that have been the most popular ones on the internet since the 1990s. The article that follows describes them. These three are examples of many excellent websites about academic knowledge that are created by experts in a subject and kept up-to-date and authentic by their authors.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/05/tables-of-elements-show-how-online-subjects-endure/</link>
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		<title>Duck-billed Platypus found in the EOL</title>
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The Duck-billed Platypus is designated an exemplar node in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), cataloged as Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799).

As the EOL website explains:
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Our goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldenswamp.com/2011/07/02/duck-billed-platypus-found-in-the-eol/</link>
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