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Jesse Sheidlower: The F-Word – Looks like a fun book http://forum-network.org/lecture/jesse-sheidlower-f-word#

check out the video at http://forum-network.org/lecture/jesse-sheidlower-f-word#

Oxford English Dictionary editor at large Jesse Sheidlower discusses his new, in-depth look at that most offensive, rhymes-with-pluck, four-letter English obscenity, The F-Word.

This second edition includes many new words and phrases, F-words from Britain, Ireland, and Australia, and hundreds of new examples of usage. Words, explanations, and examples come from thousands of sources, including Lord Rochester, Norman Mailer, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Liz Phair, Jack Kerouac, Anne Sexton, Playboy, and the Internet.

 

Flat World Knowledge – looking for some good freemium content? Great potential here.

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via flatworldknowledge.com

The choices are limited at this time, but the idea here is grand. This is not necessarily free publication, it’s freemium. A somewhat restricted online version is free, while all other versions cost. I think this model has wings.

Even with ubiquitous internet, people want a copy that can be edited, annotated, and so forth.

The Schools Our Children Deserve – C-SPAN Video Library

The Schools Our Children Deserve

Oct 27, 1999

Mr. Kohn talks about his book, The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards”, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book challenges the current state of education, and proposes multi-age, interdisciplinary classrooms. After his remarks he answered questions from the audience.

via c-spanarchives.org

I like the talk, so the book sounds interesting. If you have trouble finding the link, go here: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/ID/137405

His opinions closely resemble my own. While I don’t hope to see the changes that I want any time soon, given entrenched beliefs and the real pain that transformation would involve, I would like to see the current system fade away in preference of more flexible notions of schools, grades, classes, teachers, and so forth. I encourage you to see the video.

I’ve heard a lot about this book (it’s quite old by now), but I’ve never read it. Might be time to do so.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

How cool is this? Not just this book, but the system supplying it. The National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu) provides thousands of books like this for free online and sells PDFs. They provide this widget to embed the books in a website as well (not too cool, but something to embed). So, if people don’t mind reading on their computer screen, this isn’t a bad option.

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Read this FREE online!
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