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		<title>Free Culture vs. Proprietary Culture on Intellectual Property Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by captainhagbard via Flickr The New World of Creative Commons Licensing&#8230; I didn&#8217;t realize the ramifications of this new territory that is overtaking the technology landscape around the world. Licensing is all about protecting the rights of those who create value that benefits others. Licensing came about principally through the proprietary culture which seeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind Every Trend is a Driving Force. Here are 10&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The driving forces affecting major trends are many. Here's a concept map image.]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Diversity Decreasing Representation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia &#8220;In a mass industrial society, when people and their needs were fairly uniform and basic, consensus was an attainable goal. In a demassified society, we not only lack national purpose, we also lack regional, statewide, or citywide purpose. The diversity in any congressional district or parliamentary constituency&#8230;is so great that its &#8216;representative&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Obstacles of Opportunity for Education&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by NLanja via Flickr Social media, mobile delivery, and money shortage (the 3M&#8217;s; media, mobile, and money) are three obstacles of opportunity before today&#8217;s educational institutions. But ideas are funny little things. They don&#8217;t work unless we do. And we need to focus on the long-term, sustainable solution, not the short-term fix. Illustration&#8230; Assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land Ho! &#8230; Arriving on the other side of Web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone agrees with Thomas Friedman&#8216;s descriptions of our networked world in his best seller, The World is Flat. However, most would agree that human-kind is indeed on a journey from our agrarian past, through our industrial and post-industrial 20th century, into our present 21st century techno-savvy culture. And many – at least those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallacy of Composition: A Senseless Contradiction&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about the Land Conservation movement a few years back. In light of education reform efforts it&#8217;s worth revisiting the senseless contradictions inherent in many debates of this type. The Land as Place&#8230; The old paradigm has caused a polarity between conservation and development. Therefore developers &#8216;greenwash&#8217; their plans to appease to conservationists. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Educational Institution in 1945 &#8230; and today!</title>
		<link>http://greenbananablog.org/2010/02/democracy-in-the-educational-institution-in-1945-and-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I want to extrapolate on last year&#8217;s post about Democracy in the Classroom and apply the same principles to the Administration – Teacher/Faculty relationship in today&#8217;s educational institution. The post then and now is based on an intriguing YouTube video from 1945 which I&#8217;ve embedded below for convenience. I want to compare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Contribution is More than Content and Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I read another blogger today saying the Apple&#8217;s tablet is not as important as the content and then going on about the new media subscription platforms that may appear with the iTablet to be announced tomorrow. However, I believe Apple&#8217;s intrinsic contribution of value is beyond even their innovative approach to content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solution is the Problem when it Comes to the Much-Hullabaloo&#8217;d Education Fix&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1941. From Wikipedia royalty-free images. Click to enlarge. The tensions resonating within the educational system remind me of so many &#8220;professionals&#8221; who opined their varied diagnoses and prescriptions yet without a hint of resolution in sight. Why? via immediaedu.com What&#8217;s worse is that a cursory overview shows nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We&#8217;ll Work for Free,&#8217; Say Retired Professors, but Colleges Struggle With How to Use Them. Really?</title>
		<link>http://greenbananablog.org/2009/12/well-work-for-free-say-retired-professors-but-colleges-struggle-with-how-to-use-them-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via chronicle.com This is a good example of how the old business model is so entrenched within the educational institution, that we can&#8217;t see for forest for the trees. Experienced, retired professors are willing to teach for free. But we can&#8217;t figure out how to make that work. Hmm&#8230; perhaps because money interests outweigh education [...]]]></description>
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