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Rendells go high tech to co-teach civics class
http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/ news/ bcct/ rendells-go-high-tech-to-co-teach-civi…Rendells go high tech to co-teach civics class Posted in News on October 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm by Joan Hellyer Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell and his wife, Marjorie, will team up Wednesday to co-teach a statewide civics class using “Classrooms for the Future” equipment.
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Make sense of electoral votes with the 2008 Swing State Map
http://blogs.learnnc.org/ instructify/ 2008/ 10/ 07/ swing-state-map/Make sense of electoral votes with the 2008 Swing State Map October 7, 2008 Need help teaching the electoral system? For a visual aid, check out Politico’s 2008 Swing State Map. You can see at a glance which candidate has the lead in each state, and how much of a lead he has.
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Bad Voters Should Opt Out
http://www.philosophyetc.net/ 2008/ 10/ bad-voters-should-opt-out.htmlIn yet another great diavlog, Will Wilkinson talks with Jason Brennan about his thesis that some people should refrain from exercising their right to vote. The argument seems clear enough: people who vote badly make the world worse, and you shouldn't do that without damn good reason.
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Marianna, Florida Teacher and Obama’s CHANGE Message - Another Look
http://www.matthewktabor.com/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ marianna-florida-teacher-and-obamas-…I‘m really too busy to write this, but I couldn’t let this one go. At the heart of this discussion is how journalism, especially re: education, is lacking. The issue is a Florida teacher who wrote on the whiteboard a racially-insensitive interpretation of Sen.
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Jenkins on new Pew report about “Teens, Video Games, and Civics”
http://techliberation.com/ 2008/ 10/ 06/ jenkins-on-new-pew-report-about-teens-v…So I was just finishing up this excellent new Pew report on “Teens, Video Games and Civics,” and was about to post some thoughts about it when I saw in my RSS feed that the brilliant Henry Jenkins had beat me to it in an essay entitled “Video Game Myths Revisited.” Prof.
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Teens, Video Games, and Civics
http://blog.futurelab.net/ 2008/ 09/ teens_video_games_and_civics.htmlby: danah boyd Last week, Pew released a report on "Teens, Video Games, and Civics" that made its way around the web (see posts by Mimi Ito, Amanda Lenhart, Cathy Davidson). Briefly, some findings:
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Obama Boy
http://www.thesecondroad.org/ tsr/ 2008/ 10/ 04/ obama-boy/The Shrink has been out for several hours today in the rain, canvassing the poorer neighborhoods and getting people to register, reminding them to vote, getting address changes made, and generally making a pest of herself.
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Quick Analysis
http://andreaaskowitz.com/ ?p=266Gwen Ifill for president! She’s awesome. Biden also kicks ass. He’s strong and smart. When Gwen asked if there were any issues where he or she changed a long-held belief, Biden said yes, that now he understands the importance of ideology in selecting judges. That, to me, is one of the biggest issues in this race.
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State Supremes Say Cops Can Bust Down Your Door
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/ dailyweekly/ 2008/ 10/ state_supremes_say_cops_c…State Supremes Say Cops Can Bust Down Your Door Posted yesterday at 12:43 pm by Laura Onstot From bluebuddies.com, get yours today! Leo Brutsche offered officers keys when they arrived at his property in Kent with a warrant to search for meth, a production operation, and his son, James Brutsche.
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State Supremes Say Cops Can Bust Down Your Door
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/ dailyweekly/ 2008/ 10/ state_supremes_say_cops_c…State Supremes Say Cops Can Bust Down Your Door Posted yesterday at 12:43 pm by Laura Onstot From bluebuddies.com, get yours today! Leo Brutsche offered officers keys when they arrived at his property in Kent with a warrant to search for meth, a production operation, and his son, James Brutsche.
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