Present Tensed

Found on Web Between January 6th and January 10th, 2010

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Jan­u­ary 6th through Jan­u­ary 10th:

• 100 Amaz­ing Comic Cov­ers From The Last Ten Years — Comics — io9 — | art comics design lists
• Project Based Learn­ing Resources (Tech­nol­ogy Resources for Teach­ers) — | projects pbl resources edu­ca­tion edtech
• The New Slave Trade in South Africa — TIME — South Africa’s New Slave Trade and the Cam­paign to Stop It | southafrica slav­ery crime human.rights
• Researchers Explore Grow­ing Ocean Garbage Patches — NYTimes.com — | pol­lu­tion envi­ron­ment ocean
• Chicago Stu­dents, Look­ing For Safer Schools, Sue City — Law Blog — WSJ — | law chicago edu­ca­tion cps
• Vir­tual Stock Exchange — Home — | busi­ness games econ­omy free
• In Malaysia, Uproar Grows Over Use of Word ‘Allah’ — NYTimes.com — | reli­gion malaysia cul­ture
• State of the Art — Get­ting Fit Is the Goal, With 2 Bits of Help — NYTimes.com — | health fit­ness gad­gets
• Race and power in South Africa: Trou­ble at the grid | The Econ­o­mist — | southafrica race.relations
• Africa­Knows: An African Photo Project — WhiteAfrican — | africa pho­tog­ra­phy
• A Peek Into Net­flix Queues — NYTimes.com — | net­flix films maps data visu­al­iza­tion trends
• 3 Ways Edu­ca­tors Are Embrac­ing Social Tech­nol­ogy — | social_media social_networking teach­ing edu­ca­tion
• The Tem­pered Rad­i­cal: More on Inter­ac­tive White­boards… — | iwb interactive_white_board edu­ca­tion
• One Hash­tag Helps Edu­ca­tors Change Their Schools — | twit­ter edu­ca­tion
• Quan­ti­fy­ing Teacher Effec­tive­ness — Freako­nom­ics Blog — NYTimes.com — | teach_for_america_-_TFA teach­ing train­ing
• …My heart’s in Accra » Yemen and the prob­lems of ADD jour­nal­ism — | jour­nal­ism media middle-east
• MagicJack’s next act: dis­ap­pear­ing cell phone fees by AP: Yahoo! Tech — The size of a deck of cards, it plugs into a PC, which needs a broad­band Inter­net con­nec­tion. The device then detects when a com­pat­i­ble cell phone comes within 8 feet, and places a call to it. The user enters a short code on the phone. The phone is then linked to the mag­ic­Jack, and as long as it’s within range (YMax said it will cover a 3,000-square-foot home) mag­ic­Jack routes the call itself, over the Inter­net, rather than going through the carrier’s cel­lu­lar tower. No min­utes are sub­tracted from the user’s account with the car­rier. | cell_phones tech gad­get
• Lex­ing­ton: Inte­grated, but irked | The Econ­o­mist — The ten­sions of being Mus­lim and Amer­i­can | reli­gion culture-war usa soci­ety
• Sci­ence Super­pow­ers: Let­ter from China : The New Yorker — The cen­ter of world sci­ence, for instance, was in France in 1740, before it moved to Ger­many, then Britain, and, later, Amer­ica, car­ry­ing with it, in each case, a major dimen­sion of global lead­er­ship. | sci­ence
• Free Doc­u­men­taries Dot Org — | free films doc­u­men­tary
• The Cove | TakePart Social Action Net­work: Con­tro­ver­sial Issues, Activism, Envi­ron­men­tal, Human Rights, Polit­i­cal News — | japan movie envi­ron­ment doc­u­men­tary dol­phins activism
• From the Desk of David Pogue — Reader Responses to Review of Google’s Nexus One — NYTimes.com — The most plau­si­ble the­ory, though, is that Google’s Android phone soft­ware is a more open and hack­able oper­at­ing sys­tem than the pro­pri­etary soft­ware on the iPhone, Black­Berry or Palm. There­fore, Android appeals to pre­cisely the sort of frus­trated, anti-establishment peo­ple who have no trou­ble writ­ing abu­sive notes. It brings them out of the wood­work, gives them a new coun­ter­cul­ture cham­pion. | soci­ety tech culture-war google
• Expe­di­tionary Learn­ing — This is the group that works with Reavis Ele­men­tary | expeditionary_learning non­profit reavis
• Where good old-fashioned debate still rules school | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com — Born out of philoso­pher Mor­timer Adler’s 1982 book “The Paideia Pro­posal,” the method hopes to restore “clas­si­cal” edu­ca­tion to pub­lic schools by teach­ing chil­dren crit­i­cal think­ing, debat­ing and syn­the­siz­ing infor­ma­tion. Ide­ally, it includes for­eign lan­guage and fine arts as part of the reg­u­lar school day, but those fea­tures haven’t sur­vived bud­get cuts in many schools. | edu­ca­tion
• Outcome-based edu­ca­tion — Wikipedia — | edu­ca­tion wikipedia
• The back­fir­ing of the sur­veil­lance state (Glenn Green­wald — Salon.com) — Every debate over expanded gov­ern­ment sur­veil­lance power is invari­ably framed as one of “secu­rity v. pri­vacy and civil lib­er­ties” — as though it’s a given that increas­ing the Government’s sur­veil­lance author­i­ties will “make us safer.” But it has long been clear that the oppo­site is true. | law ter­ror­ism racial.profiling reli­gion safety
• George F. Will — BCS brings up a peren­nial com­plaint: Col­lege foot­ball as big busi­ness — washingtonpost.com — | sports
• Mile­stones on Minori­ties and Poverty in South­ern Schools — NYTimes.com — | edu­ca­tion education_reform states stats poverty
• Schwarzeneg­ger Seeks Shift From Pris­ons to Schools — NYTimes.com — | prison edu­ca­tion cal­i­for­nia law.enforcement
• The Tem­pered Rad­i­cal: Wast­ing Money on White­boards… — | iwb tech interactive_white_board

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