Standards-Based Education

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Cybersecurity needs education,
standards, partnerships

Cybersecurity needs education,
standards, partnerships 07/22/2004 08:19 PM

Earthlink Launches Standards-Based P2P
Network?

Earthlink Launches Standards-Based P2P
Network? 09/16/2004 03:43 AM
While ISPs were perhaps the one entity that benefited the most from file sharing, recently they've been very hostile to the concept -- mostly due to being inundated with take down letters from the entertainment industry. However, Earthlink seems to have figured out that the more people using the internet to do more, the better off they'll be and has released their own "proof-of-concept" SIP-based file sharing network called SIPShare. To back this up, they say: "An open Internet means users have full end-to-end connectivity to say to each other whatever it is they say, be that voice, video, or other data exchanges, without the help of mediating servers in the middle whenever possible. We believe that if peer-to-peer flourishes, the Internet flourishes." Good thing they released this before the INDUCE Act becomes law, or Earthlink might be in trouble.

Home-Based Computer Education Program
Links Seniors, Children

Home-Based Computer Education Program
Links Seniors, Children 09/15/2004 06:14 AM
Detroit News Sep 15 2004 10:52AM GMT

IBM, Unisys Deliver Mainframe Abilities
to Standards-Based Servers

IBM, Unisys Deliver Mainframe Abilities
to Standards-Based Servers 05/03/2004 09:42 AM
The companies introduce new systems that stress flexibility and manageability.

ITU and Inmarsat sign 'Distance
E-learning Initiative' to bring
satellite-based Internet education to
rural sc

ITU and Inmarsat sign 'Distance
E-learning Initiative' to bring
satellite-based Internet education to
rural sc 12/13/2003 02:37 AM
AME Info Dec 13 2003 1:10AM ET

NEW ROUND OF RELEASES EXTENDS MOZILLA
PROJECT'S STANDARDS BASED OPEN SOURCE
OFFERINGS

NEW ROUND OF RELEASES EXTENDS MOZILLA
PROJECT'S STANDARDS BASED OPEN SOURCE
OFFERINGS 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name : Firefox .. Mozilla invites you to play with its newest experiment: .. Mozilla Firebird version 0.8 has being released .. ha cambiado de nombre .. the press release .. Firefox

mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-02-09.html
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Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control

Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Partnership extends the reach and availability of CCXML and SIP-based call control for IVR solutions [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform 12/19/2004 03:46 PM
RTI's NDDS Publish-Subscribe Solution for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS Now Available for Advanced Distributed Systems [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Real-Time Innovations Introduces
Industry’s First Tool Suite for
Developing Standards-Based Distributed
Systems

Real-Time Innovations Introduces
Industry’s First Tool Suite for
Developing Standards-Based Distributed
Systems 03/14/2005 05:58 PM
Smart Tools for Connecting Smart Devices in Simulation, Telecommunications, Industrial Automation, Medical Equipment, Factory Automation and Avionics Applications [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]

Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier

Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier 04/30/2004 09:20 AM
UMass president criticizes student's column .. Boston Globe .. hammer:

boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/04/29/umass_p resident_criticizes_students_column_on_felled_soldier
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Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today)

Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today) 07/23/2002 05:15 PM

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too?

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too? 11/06/2003 07:39 AM
move everything to a built in copy-protection scheme .. Buy Digital TVs, VCRs and DVD players NOW .. The end of recording TV shows approaches

pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113285,00.asp
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Web-based Timesheet Provider Replicon
Inc. Launches Web-based Resource
Scheduling Software

Web-based Timesheet Provider Replicon
Inc. Launches Web-based Resource
Scheduling Software 04/06/2005 02:38 AM
Replicon’s Web Resource to Replace the use of Traditional Spreadsheets for Employee Project Scheduling [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection

Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection 06/23/2004 06:58 PM
Just as the open source movement has changed attitudes to software and software vendors, so phenomena like RSS may be changing attitudes to the creation and maintenance of industry standards.

Spry Launches Windows Based Virtual
Private Server Hosting Based on
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Spry Launches Windows Based Virtual
Private Server Hosting Based on
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 03/14/2005 04:40 PM
Virtual Private Server (VPS) technologies have allowed webhosting users on Linux for years to have control of their own servers while minimizing cost. Spry now offers this ability to the Microsoft Windows hosting community. Spry is known as a leading VPS hosting and colocation provider in Seattle, Washington. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Self-education

Self-education 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
I grew up in an abusive household, but I'm determined to be happy. Am I capable of it?

Education and Words

Education and Words 03/15/2003 01:48 AM

Tyler is worri ed that college cheaters might get an unfair head-start in the job market.  In my experience, he has nothing to worry about.  GPA is certainly something we look at when reviewing resumes, but students often fret about GPA with an intensity that is rarely justified by subsequent life experience.  Good grades can sometimes play a part in getting a candidate invited to an interview (which is admittedly important for people starting out), but again I wouldn't worry too much about cheaters.  My sense is that people normally don't cheat unless they feel that they need to -- in other words, people cheat in order to avoid getting kicked out of college, not as a way to get the sort of GPAs that might stand on their own to get someone into an interview.  You could argue that it's unfair for a 2.0 student to perhaps get a job based on a fraudulent 3.2 GPA.  But with a 3.2, it isn't going to be the GPA that plays the major part in that person getting a job anyway.  And if they are the sort who need to cheat on college exams, they'll be left behind and Tyler won't be working anywere near them five years from now.

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This makes a nice segue to a rant that's been building for awhile.  Nothing annoys me more than those who whine "the government doesn't do enough to educate our children!"  This seems to be a very popular political tactic, but turns education on its head and does more harm than good.  Education is not a passive thing that students have done to them, but rather an active thing that students do for themselves.  If a person wants to learn Calculus, History, or Music; but doesn't, he has nobody to blame but himself.  It is not the parents' fault, it is not the teachers' fault, and it is certainly not the government's fault.  There are plenty of good Calculus books available, and the cause of failure to learn isn't lack of government funding or lack of quality teaching -- it is lack of reading the book.

It is true that children don't normally teach themselves to read, but this is really the sort of thing that parents should teach their children.  Even if 50% of children enter first grade without being able to read, teaching kids to read is a tiny fraction of what our government spends on "education".  And once a child knows how to read, virtually all of the world's learning becomes hers for the taking.  The invention of written language guaranteed that great "teachers" could continue to communicate to students long after the death of the teacher.  The printing press lowered the cost of such communications almost to zero, and public libraries made such teaching affordable to societies poorest members.  It is impossible to overstate the impact that these three developments have had on humans' ability to teach one another, yet we still have people who reach adulthood without knowing basic arithmetic.

I believe that the advent of the Internet and mass storage are having the same sort of impact on humans' ability to teach and learn that the printing press had.  And furthermore, I think that the "semantic web" will be another such leap for mankind.  But even without today's "mass-storage web" and the coming "semantic web", there is absolutely no excuse for someone failing to learn something that he or she desires to learn. 

Kids today have things soooo much better than Aristotle had.  I wish they would stop whining already, and "just read the book!" (as Mark MacLeod would say)

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And speaking of literacy, here is a nice little story about the "100 words you should know".  This list has provoked some disagreement recently, with some people violently rejecting the idea that flowery words are evidence of intellectual horsepower.  It is true that people sometimes use intimidating words as a sort of facade to dazzle and deflect away from real intellectual deficiencies.  But that is not the same as saying that a rich vocabulary is not worth acquiring.  Words are the atoms of language, and language is the substrate of thinking (especially abstract, higher-level thinking).  Words lubricate the brain.

On the other hand, I have a hard time taking seriously a list which considers "Ziggurat" a sign of intelligence.  I suspect they mixed up the "words that help you think" with "words that are good for Jr. High spelling-bee finals".

 

Education Policy

Education Policy 03/19/2005 02:19 AM

data.fas.harvard.edu/pepg/index.htm
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Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough?

Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough? 12/19/2004 03:43 PM

For this article, I am standing firmly on a soap box.

The Associated Press reported, today, on a few information technologist that are doing well in their young careers, so well, in fact, that they each hope to retire before reaching middle age, and they attained their success without a formal higher education. This article struck a raw chord with me, because I emphasize the value of formal education to all of the students whom I teach, including those seeking a B.S. in information technology (IT) and those pursuing a M.B.A. with a further concentration in IT.

Where is education in election?

Where is education in election? 04/15/2005 06:44 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker wonders why - whatever the parties say - education is not topping the election agenda.

Education vs. faith

Education vs. faith 09/03/2004 10:19 AM
Muslim girls in France, concerned about learning and shocked by the hostage crisis in Russia, start school with little defiance of the new ban on head scarves.

Conversational education

Conversational education 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I find myself, from time to time, in discussion regarding topics on which I have a lack of depth, of experience; economics, business, law and the like; this is one of the most effective ways to learn that I've found. Recently, though, I've started noticing that some communities don't accept this as a valid method of learning.

An Education in Antialiasing

An Education in Antialiasing 03/20/2003 08:33 AM

John Gruber writes about antiali asing again. It's an interesting read.

Aggregating Education

Aggregating Education 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

I know it seems like I'm only talking about RSS these days, but that's because 1) it's beginning to hit a critical mass, 2) I very much believe libraries need to be part of this (if not leading it), and 3) it's on my mind because of my upcoming presentation with Steven Cohen on this topic.

However, it's not just me. Ken Tompkins is thinking about aggregators, too, and he's doing me one better by actually creating some. For his campus, he's currently aggregating NY Times and BBC feeds in one aggregator, Manila sites in a second aggregator, and the feeds from both aggregators into one "meta-aggregator." Ken writes:

"I have just begun to consider rss in college literature teaching.... We have a Frontier server and, of course, I know about the aggregator in both Manila and Radio.

So, I've worked out a way to aggregate our student Manila sites or, at least, the best ones as well as provide a way to aggregate news of interest to Arts & Humanities students....

These are very modest and display nothing important. I just got them working today. They need formatting and a swipe at css. For me, what is important, is that I now have a technique for aggregating sites of any flavor -- faculty, student, major, etc -- and can easily set faculty to creating similar sites for their departments."

Very impressive, Ken! This is another good experiment to watch. Is it my imagination or is education becoming an epicenter of RSS activity? Certainly more than at the BigPubs these days.

Ken describes a setup similar to what I want for Illinois libraries. For our "News Exchange Web Service" (NEWS) grant project, we're going to get four of the twelve Illinois Library Systems blogging with accompanying RSS feeds. We'll also provide individual and group aggregation inter- and intra-System, thereby creating a knowledge exchange system of unparalleled potential for communication. And that's just for starters.

Side note of personal opinion: the new Illinois Library Systems home page should be a blog with an RSS feed!

Webl0gs in education

Webl0gs in education 09/21/2004 04:29 PM
Via Scripting News, I see a post by Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade wishing for a stronger uptake of weblogging in the classroom. Michael's a professor at Harvard and/or Boston University (I couldn't quite figure it out) and has one class...

Microsoft, education the key

Microsoft, education the key 09/23/2004 12:41 AM
AME Info Sep 23 2004 5:04AM GMT

Discounted Education

Discounted Education 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
Private education stocks are hit hard today, with Corinthian Colleges declining the most.

Education wasted

Education wasted 08/06/2004 03:26 PM
Express Computer India Aug 6 2004 6:51PM GMT

A virtual education

A virtual education 05/02/2004 07:32 PM
Straits Times May 2 2004 11:20PM GMT

BBC turns on Microsoft for education

BBC turns on Microsoft for education 11/04/2003 06:30 AM
Infomatics Nov 4 2003 5:24AM ET

Microsoft Gives S. Korean Education
$8.7M

Microsoft Gives S. Korean Education
$8.7M 07/06/2004 11:27 AM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Jul 6 2004 3:39PM GMT

Excelling in For-Profit Education

Excelling in For-Profit Education 06/01/2004 10:46 AM
The K-12 sector hasn't done as well as the adult educators, but Plato Learning is out to change that.

Environmental Education Exchange

Environmental Education Exchange 06/06/2004 06:40 AM
Environmental Education Exchange
http://www.eeexchange.org/

A Non-for-profit organization providing programs and services for the advancement of environmental literacy in the Unuted States and mexico. Since 1991, the Environmental Education Exchange has developed a diversity of environmental education programs and materials. The varied topics and themes have included water conservation, recycling and waste reduction, biodiversity, endangered species, land use issues, commercialism and the environment, air quality, Sonoran Desert ecology, solar energy, mining and minerals, science literacy, special multicultural/border programs, and more. The majority of resulting programs and materials are available free to educators or other intended audiences. Because the Exchange specializes in program design (and is not primarily a program provider), these products generally are distributed or presented by partner agencies and organizations for which they were developed. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

Participatory Journalism and Education

Participatory Journalism and Education 08/03/2004 09:13 AM
I'm in Toronto for today's Exploring Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference, speaking about the tools of tomorrow's grassroots journalism and how folks in the business can get started. I'm glad to see that quite a few educators are part of this gathering. Their presence makes sense, given that tomorrow is the start of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. My guess is that the students are, in many cases, way ahead of the teachers when it comes to understanding the tools and how to use them. (Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Education remains key says Blair

Education remains key says Blair 04/10/2005 07:24 AM
Tony Blair promises to put education at the heart of Labour's manifesto as Alan Milburn says plans will be "radical".

More resign over education cuts

More resign over education cuts 03/23/2005 12:26 PM
The Western Education and Library Board votes narrowly to approve budget cuts of £5.7m.

Get a taste of education MIT style

Get a taste of education MIT style 02/04/2003 04:33 AM
For instance, if you want to go to the search engine Google, type "Google" in the address box, then hit "control" plus "enter." Your computer will fill in the ...

Education Via Video Games

Education Via Video Games 08/16/2004 06:48 AM

IT 'Marks Education Watershed'

IT 'Marks Education Watershed' 05/13/2004 03:46 AM
New mass-market entertainment offerings and innovative computer applications, such as Apple's iMovie continue to change the way kids are taught, and also the way today's children are. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)
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