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		<title>21st Century Skills? What do they mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade into the 21st century, how are we doing with the movement to &#8220;position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education.&#8221; The National Journal Online has been conducting an discussion on this topic&#8230; some very interesting views represented there, from both sides of the spectrum. I have some definite opinions on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin film can&#8217;t find distributor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film &#8216;too controversial for religious America&#8217;
How sad is that!
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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>Of certainty &amp; doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes has a op-ed piece today by Max Blumenthal about an obscure letter Eisenhower wrote to &#8220;Robert Biggs, a terminally ill World War II veteran.&#8221; Biggs was worried by ambiguity and uncertainty he seemed to observe in president Eisenhower. He wrote that he:
“felt from your recent speeches the feeling of hedging and a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The revolution will be twittered</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent (and ongoing) evens in Iran sadden me deeply&#8230; but also give me hope. The scenes and news emerging from there speak of courage and a need and demand for freedom. What is also amazing has been the use of technology particularly twitter to get news out of the country.
A few decades ago it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first 100 days, on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/05/02/the-first-100-days-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just absolutely brilliant!!
In particular check out the URL that Dick Cheney sends to Obama, approximately half-way down the page. (You will have to copy and past the url). 
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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>
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		<title>The story of Hari &amp; freedom of speech</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/13/the-story-of-hari-freedom-of-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Johann Hari wrote an article defending free speech for everyone. You can read the article here: Why should I respect these oppressive religions?. This article was reprinted in the Indian newspaper, The Statesman. This led to riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article!
They have been charged &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to my reading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/12/responding-to-my-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written a response to Mohsin Hamid&#8217;s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a while ago (read it here). Yesterday, I received a note from Irfan critiquing my take on the novel. 
This is what he wrote:
Punya, I read the novel and it does not seem to me, as you interpret, that the character decides to become [...]]]></description>
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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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