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One reason I prefer newsprint when the same copy is available online is that I am very old with fixed habits. Aother is that it facilitates the acquisition of coupons
But the main reason is that I already spend too much time at my desk, I am becoming a screen sucker
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Ebooks come in handy when you want to rest your eyes. I only read between 11 pm and 1 am. Trouble with ebooks at that hour is: it's like someone nice is telling you a bedtime story and sleep takes over too fast.
(I got Frost[selection]. Nice little pocket-size hardcover with a shiny grey ribbon for bookmark).I'm happy so I tell. My favorite English language poet is T.S Eliot, but Frost is new to me and at the same time New England revisited.
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... as heard on NPR: A much anticipated high-tech high school opened its doors last month in one of Philadelphia's poorer neighborhoods. Known as the School of the Future, the project was designed with help from technology giant Microsoft. Microsoft Project Manager Mary Cullinane says the goal was to answer the question, "what if?" "'What if a company like Microsoft and an organization like the School District of Philadelphia came together to build a school of the future? What would it look like?'" Cullinane says. According to freshman Littleton Hurst, it looks "like Bill Gates' house," with a cafeteria like a restaurant and a gym "like an NBA-size basketball court." The classrooms have the appearance of corporate meeting rooms -- complete with video projectors. Hurst laughs as he describes the coolest thing: "No pencils, no papers, no books. None." Just laptops, which are standard issue at the school. ```` The whole story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6210622
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I read it. Help! A laptop. That's all? What about art A R T ?
No lumps of clay to throw at the ceiling. No wads of paper to throw at your favorite teacher. Those class rooms absolutely naked !
Just a different kind of poverty.
I hope you do not see this as interfering in other people's business,
but the fact that this try-out is done on below poverty level youngsters looks positive at first sight. But I suspect they are the easy volunteers, the guinea pigs. (OK guinea pigs don't volunteer.)
Would a well-to-do American , the heritage type send his child into this if- project?
Real life problems.
"What if ", the money had been used to build a few hundred elementary schools in Africa? With pencils, books, paper and blackboards + modest but regular wages for the teachers.
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I think the point is that the kids below the poverty line are often already failing. In one class I tutor, the teacher allows me to take the students to the library at any time - to actually skip class. If there is a test, she sends them to the library with me (or one of the other tutors) and lets them test later.
Her opinion: they're already so far behind that they're not understanding what's happening in the class.
I don't know if I would approve of this for my kids, but I know this - that no matter what the school does, my kids will succeed. They take my money and give me whatever they give me. I don't have much say beyond stay with the system or leave. But they get the money to spend wisely or squander, either way. I'm pretty sure that the kids who are already failing are not going to be hurt much by this experiment. The AVERAGE black and hispanic graduates HS with the equivalent of an 8th grade education.
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Bran: I address the sleep problem by reading only during the commercials...
...not too effective since the TV often puts me to sleep
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Reading with a TV on?  I can't even read with music on. One brain activity at a time. Sorry, I missed your point at first . It is funny!
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Bran: I turn down the volume to where I can't hear the words but can usu detect the return of the program
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