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		<title>Video Bingo in Alabama: Tech &amp; change</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/11/12/video-bingo-in-alabama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does technology change what we do? Often when a new technology appears we tend to see it in terms of existing practices and structures. So an e-book is the same as a book, except in digital format. E-books still have &#8220;pages&#8221; which we &#8220;turn&#8221; (with a flick or our finger or if you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Kamkwamba, TED talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written a couple of days ago about William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book. From Bob Reuter&#8217;s website (Keep IT Simple!) I discovered a TED talk that William had given in England, back in July. Incidentally my son pointed out to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A boy and his windmill</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/10/08/a-boy-and-his-windmill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show featured William Kamkwamba, a Malawian high school student who built a windmill by looking at pictures in a book! I have always been a fan of jugaad, the idea of indigenous creativity using the detritus that seems to be a function of our modern world. And this is just an amazing story. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the university II</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/20/the-end-of-the-university-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my end of the university as we know it series, here is another article, this time from The Washington Monthly, titled College for $99 a Month: The next generation of online education could be great for students—and catastrophic for universities. Here are some key quotes but the article is worth reading in full. [H/T [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of the university?</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/11/the-death-of-the-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zephyr Teachout (supposedly an associate law professor at Fordham University, a writer, and an online entrepreneur) has a great article on bigmoney.com, titled Welcome to Yahoo! U: The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers.
His essential argument is that under the assault of new technologies, mainly the rise of online learning, the business model that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping tabs on the experts</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/08/keeping-tabs-on-the-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an age where experts are a dime a dozen, willing to pontificate at the drop of a pin, it is hard to tell whom to believe, and whom NOT to believe. In comes Phillip Tetlock, an academic who has made it his mission to evaluate the prognosticators! This is described in his book:
Tetlock, P.E. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning for free? What does that mean?</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/04/learning-for-free-what-does-that-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Dean writes about his experience with learning from freely available curricula on the Web. What does that mean, How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?. The article also has a set of links to such curricula that are available on the web. 
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		<title>Finding myself in EduPunk</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/14/finding-myself-in-edupunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<title>Barriers to Innovation &amp; Inclusion</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/10/barriers-to-innovation-inclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leigh Wolf just sent me this video created by the Johnson Space Center on Barriers to Innovation &#038; Inclusion. A Google search led to this description: 
Last summer, Johnson Space Center senior management coordinated a center-wide, cross-generational effort to explore well thought out and researched recommendations on improvements that can be implemented to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger by the tail</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/01/22/495/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I blogged about a column by David Brooks in the NYTimes (Flipping the Tech &#038; Ed equation). Brooks described research by Goldin and Katz indicating a &#8220;race between technology and education&#8221; based on the idea that technology is (by its very nature) skill based. When we add to that the fact that [...]]]></description>
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