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10:05:22 PM    

"Learning objects and e-learning standardization bear the imprint of the ideology and culture of the American military-industrial complex--of ways of thinking that are related either marginally or antithetically to the interests and values of education generally and public education in particular."

Wow, I'm glad somebody said it! But then in reading this informative paper by Norm Friesen, it looks like somebody already had in a major way - he cites a reference to a work that sounds really interesting in this regard, the The Classroom Arsenal: Military Research, Information Technology, and Public Education  by Douglas D. Noble.

I'm not sure I actually hold out that much hope of the educational community's voice being heard in the larger arenas where commercial developers and industrial training agendas seem to dominate. But it is great that these kinds of objections are being aired openly, especially by someone as knowledgeable in the field as this paper's author. - SWL

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I guess I need to understand what it is that Norm and Douglas object to so strenuously. Maybe they don't need to re-use content (yeah, right), but why should they object so strongly to *my* re-using content.

6:01:38 PM    

Jon Zittrain on The Google Death Penalty

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Ways to get into trouble that you never dreamed existed.

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