In todays Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter, editor John Mutter opens with a piece on Amazons new Fire tablet.
Many in the book business worry about power becoming concentrated in the book world. Amazon likes to play rough: recently it spent $5 million to force a referendum in California on a law it didnt like. (The state and Amazon have since come to a compromise.) Publishers say quietly that since Borderss collapse, Amazon has become even more aggressive about wanting better deals. Its also set up its own publishing division and may well publish some books that arent available outside the Amazon e-cosphere. A closed system doesnt bode well for the general book universe, which for its many quirks and flaws, still brings reading pleasure to tens of millions of people.
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The fate of the ICT Programme of Study could have been predicted accurately long before Judge Gove donned his black cap and passed the death sentence. After several years of what might be justly described as a “war of attrition”, the weight of the “evidence”, such as it is, made such an outcome unavoidable.
This article is not, to continue the analogy, meant to be the beginning of an appeal process – although there is a Government consultation on the subject which could, in theory, lead to a reversal of the decision to disapply the ICT Programme of Study – but an attempt to at least set the record straight with a few facts. If people wish to say the current ICT Programme of Study is not fit for purpose, that’s up to them, but my contention is that the arguments should be based on what the Programme of Study actually contains. As far as I can see, the reasons that the ICT PoS needed to go are as follows.
Pupils are required to learn Word and Excel
Actually, they’re not. Apart from the f
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An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper clocked Roberts driving 93 mph in a 65 mph zone just after midnight on the Creek Turnpike west of U.S. 169, according to his arrest report.
Roberts’ blood-alcohol level was measured at .11 percent, above the legal limit of .08, the report says.
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I reported on the start of this class last week, and sinc ethen, we’ve had three more class meetings. Since this whole thing is an experiment, I’ll keep reporting on it from time to time (heh). First, though, a quick answer to a :
I’d like to hear more about your class on time and timekeeping. How well do you think students learn the big ideas about how science works from these classes, as apposed to a more traditional general physics class? How much transfer do you see in students’ understanding of the content of this course to understanding of science in general?
The answer to this is really short and simple: I have no idea. This is the first time I’m teaching this class, and I’m making it up as I go. I’ll know more in March, maybe.
So, what have we been doing for the past week?
As mentioned in the last report, last Friday’s class involved a look at neolithic timekeeping, in the form of the Newgrange passage tomb, and looked at a bad argument in the form of an Ancient Aliens clip talking about Newgrange.
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Dr. Sumeet Dua, the Upchurch Endowed Professor of Computer Science and coordinator of information technology research at Louisiana Tech University, has co-edited a new book on computational modeling methods that can help ophthalmologists develop innovative computer systems to provide critical support and better care options for patients.
According to Dua, the speed at which data on eye disorders such as cataracts and glaucoma are collected can make it impossible for the human observer to directly monitor subtle, yet critical details. “Computational Analysis of the Human Eye with Applications” presents students and practitioners with computational image modeling methods as they are applied to many of these scientific problems in ophthalmology.
“Diseases of the human eye can affect a wide variety of people and early and precise diagnosis is critical to ensure that vision loss is prevented in due time,” said Dua. “This bo
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