The Information Conversation: diigo bookmarks 04/02/2008

turns text upside down and backwards

Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition (Assimilação Natural - o Construtivismo no Ensino de Línguas)

tags: curriculum, foreign language, language acquisition, world language

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Home

tags: education, future, learning, politics, tech_and_society, technology, transforming_teaching, web2.0

Cable in the Classroom - Threshold Magazine - Spring 2008

tags: 2008, tech_and_society, threshold, transforming_teaching

Global Warming Skeptic Organizations

tags: climate change, skeptic, special interest groups

List of prominent groups organized to refute the science of global warming

World Language Learning Materials

tags: curriculum, foreign language, materials, world language

Today's spies find secrets in plain sight - USATODAY.com Annotated

tags: information, internet safety, onlinesafety, privacy

Agencies dedicated to covert information are increasinly turning to open networks.

"Open source is the world of the future."

open-source information

main use is to "add perspective and context" to material gathered through classified means.

Additionally, he says, such information helps officials better focus classified missions on material that can't be obtained elsewhere. "Increasingly … we are asked to look at open source first, then show the added value we get by applying (classified) assets."

"Now, counterintelligence is a problem for everyone who has secrets to keep and … lives on a network," Brenner says. "And that's all of us."

ed4wb » Education for Well-being

tags: ed4wb, education, transforming_teaching, video

Education as if people and the planet mattered