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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 23, 2017
Nietzsche For Tots
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What I like about the current age is that people have
started thinking about different ways of representing (and
different audiences) for all sorts of information. Today we
have by way of example Nietzsche in Shapes and Colors
http://amzn.to/2ltSEXn" target="_blank, "a board book aimed
at introducing Nietzschean themes to children by way of
simple phrases and beautiful illustrations, including
naturalism." And why don't we teach young children about
the wonders of nature, the varieties of perspective, and
personal empowerment? I had to wait until I was in
university before I discovered these things had names and
weren't the products of my imagination.
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Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for
K-12 Market
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As this article suggests, it's probably no coincidence that
Google, Microsoft and Apple each have a product named
'Classroom'. Though all are listed as 'free', each requires
the purchase of an expensive application or software suite.
The products are being targeted aggressively at schools
(especially in the U.S.) and the companies have created
associated 'classroom' communities. The tools are mostly
used to help students collaborate on documents and to
submit homework assignments. Related: are we innovating or
just digitizing traditional teaching
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Language ArtsTechnology in School Who Says I Don't Like to
Read? Sparking a Love of Digital Books Across Detroit
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This article describes the deployment of MyOn
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MyOn provides access to a library of 13,000 titles for
young readers. It works
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"by initially prompting students to take an interest
inventory to decide what types of books they are interested
in reading, and a placement test to determine reading
ability." We are told that "since adopting the platform,
the district has seen the number of books being accessed
and read by our students increase dramatically."
Interestingly, MyOn has no Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=MyOn&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1&searchToken=edbgxy4q3yqvx6avmahf901pm.
Previously a division of Capstone, it has just been
sold
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to Francisco Partners Linka
private equity firm. More coverage
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various media.
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