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		<title>From the Edge of Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>OLPC vs OLPT&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could the idea of a laptop per teacher be a better option than the OLPC initiative? The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative&#8217;s been under scrutiny in the Educational Technology Debate recently and results and comments point toward meaningful insights that can be gleaned for technology-assisted learning initiatives. South Africa&#8217;s recently launched a TLP (Teacher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=139&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Civility subdues Revolt at Stress in American Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discussion after this evening&#8217;s showing of Vicki Abeles&#8217; documentary, RACE TO NOWHERE, at the Winston Churchill Senior High was marked by a surprising restraint. Given the accusations that the film level at the education system and the society, the outcry was far too subdued to bet on, what Peter Senge recently described as, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=132&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South African Documentary Probes the Power of Dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Molly Blank&#8217;s latest documentary, Where do I Stand, captures a moment of South Africa&#8217;s very recent past through a lens of, what South African Ambassador to the US, Mr Ebrahim Rasool described as, the &#8220;unadulterated, unsophisticated words of young people who haven’t gotten the rails to sophisticate the discourse&#8221;. In fact, Mr Rasool pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=126&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing sojourners&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful sojourners From Washington DC to New York to Dubai to Cape Town and Johannesburg and to Bahrain and Frankfurt, the men and women, who work the shifts at the Duty Free stores, the taxi ranks, the watering and coffee holes and the check-in points at the airports, tell stories that put another life and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=118&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in Venice&#8230;Life for learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death in Venice probes the final days of Thomas Mann&#8217;s main character, Gustave Aschenbach, with a riveting and pulsating account. It is tough to read, I think, since it expects a tenacity of mind that must ruthlessly follow the demands that Mann&#8217;s brilliance expect. The novel holds the reputation of &#8220;one of the most perfect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=106&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walt Whitman Shines on Ancient Ideas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much talent graced the stage of the auditorium last night at Walt Whitman High School that it is hard to believe that the place was just less than half-full. Admittedly, it was opening night of the triple performance and it was Thursday, but the taste that these young people left on the palates of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=100&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swedes and Technology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to have the company of two very able young Swedish students who are with us here in DC. They are spending a week here to improve their language skills and expand their horizons for future learning opportunities. That Swedish education spent so much money in the late 90&#8242;s to get broadband to every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=98&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges to Meaningful Dialogue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very encouraged by Jonathan Jansen&#8217;s comments and clear sense of what we need in South Africa &#8211; Having just read his phenomenal work, Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid past, I am convinced that the road ahead is a daunting one, because the ideas Dr Jansen is wrestling with requires [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=96&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A perspective on potential</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally located this very insightful ad from a South African bank that illustrates the idea that a healthy wonder for the potential of others inhabits marvelous possibilities.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningideasforlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2704677&amp;post=93&amp;subd=learningideasforlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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