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“Usually in Peru, our schools are like a jail,” says Innova founder Yzusqui Chessman. “But [Innova] schools . . . have big transparency, many colors, and bandwidth throughout.” Transparency and Wi-Fi for the middle class, while everyone else attends jail-like schools? Edutopia | Jacobin
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It’s not surprising, then, that when Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Persivale, the billionaire son of an elite Peruvian banking family, decided to expand his empire of restaurants and movie theaters by buying up a chain of for-profit English-language elementary schools, his first step was to contact IDEO and commission them to design everything: the buildings, the budget,…
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Accounting classes don’t teach you to make art.
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L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple
mostlysignssomeportents: Nearly a year ago, L.A. Unified sent Apple a letter demanding that it address problems with the Pearson curriculum. “Only two schools of 69 in the Instructional Technology Initiative … use Pearson regularly,” according to an internal March report from project director Bernadette Lucas. “Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily.…
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Broadening the geopolitics still further is Gangjian Cui’s installation Rise of the Plasticsmith. He anticipates a time 50 years hence when the scarcity of oil will mean that cities such as his native Daqing, a community in north-east China built entirely on the industrial production of plastic, will be facing terminal decline. The artist posits…
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I don’t believe that making games, critiquing games or playing games should be a privilege reserved for people who can afford it. Maddy Myers, Paste Magazine (via discovergames)
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personalfactory: 3DPrinterOS in the cloud Update “Multi-Printer Support from a Single Device Aaron Roy: Understanding how to do multi-printer support from a single device (i.e. 1 Raspberry Pi 2 and two different 3D Printers connected) and making the software intuitive enough to work with printer serial numbers thus making it plug and play instead of…
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So when the poor, who in theory can’t afford a net connection come to the Facebook Zero service confusingly called Internet.org, they’re made to believe they’re on the internet while in reality they’re only on Facebook and a few hand-picked sites. And the sites too are picked in secret under some unknown process. For instance,…
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Nike’s ‘uncomfort zone’ Tumblr campaign backfires immediately.
Nike’s ‘uncomfort zone’ Tumblr campaign backfires immediately. generalbriefing: hellotailor: Advertising to Tumblr users can be an uphill battle, requiring at least a basic understanding of how Tumblr culture works. Denny’s managed it by being weird and funny. Taylor Swift does it by acting like a normal 20-something cat blogger. Media outlets like MTV and Disney are…
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Random Start Monopoly
kierongillen: carriagelamp: dearnonacepeople: So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”? You know what, I’m going to tell you guys a story. In my Sociology class a few semesters ago, our prof had…