Via CNN, I found this article to be really interesting and spot on, along with the TED video:
Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place to work. However, when you ask people where they go when they really need to get something done, you’ll rarely hear them say it’s the office.
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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types.

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A new hope …


Welcome to the fourth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 494 subscribers (representing a 36% increase during the last four months!), and appearing bimonthly between August and April. If you are not sure what TPACK is, please surf over to www.tpack.org  to learn more. 

Gratuitous Quote about Technology
"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.”
- An Wang
 
In this Issue: -2. Introductory blurb …

I hope you are having a good life I will make more of an effort to blog more often. Well, I’ll try. This is for my ever faithful, devoted public. Really.

Each year, spammers generate 62 Trillion junk emails. That’s Trillion, not Billion or Million. The energy is takes to send and store those emails could power 2.4 million homes for the same year. Also, each spam mail emits 0.3 grams of CO2 (greenhouse gas) into the air. Read more …