Joshua Davis on Juarez Correa's work on Student Centered Schooling in Matamoros Mexico. He began reading books and searching for ideas online. Soon he stumbled on a video describing the work of Sugata Mitra... “If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will Self Organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”... His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”... Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College who studies children’s natural ways of learning, argues that human cognitive machinery is fundamentally incompatible with conventional schooling. Gray points out that young children, motivated by curiosity and playfulness, teach themselves a tremendous amount about the world. And yet when they reach school age, we supplant that innate drive to learn with an imposed curriculum. (more)

Magazine Publishing piece of Time Warner. (more)

aka KickStarter, Indie Gogo, etc. (more)

Brain Fart Of The Day - I think there's an opportunity for an app that helps "compose" a tune for an amateur - someone who probably plays an instrument, can read music, has some snatches stuck in hir head, but no way to get it down. (more)

These are 2 separate Ski Clubs in Barrington Il. I've found it frustrating getting info, so I'm sharing what I know here. (These notes are from fall'2012.) (more)

Library open to the public (more)

Brewster Kahle project (Internet Archive), involving Aaron Swartz (more)

not an EBook, but something more (but digital is a complement to a primary-traditional artifact)... (more)

Kno has announced plans to launch a 2-piece Tablet aimed at the College Education market. (more)

Core Value (more)

Jason Calacanis predicts that Google "Wins Everything". Google’s founders have no interest in giving dividends or doing stock buybacks. They have control of the company and more money than can be spent in 1,000 lifetimes, so they are playing for legacy. 200 years from now, few will know that Google started as a search engine. They’ll probably think of it as the company that cured cancer, made the internet free for humanity and built self-driving cars.

aka Expo (more)

Blog Network started by Jason Calacanis. (more)

Author of Mirror Worlds and other books. (more)

a Trade Guild? (more)

typically government-paid Infrastructure

Massive Open Online Course - pun on MMORPG (more)

author, A New Kind Of Book and Breaking The Page (more)

stuff "below" what you want to think about :) - and yet we call it OverHead! (more)

by Erik Larson ISBN:0375725601 (more)