Keeping Up With IT Developments In Education? 32
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timothy
from the ear-to-the-rail dept.
from the ear-to-the-rail dept.
antgiant writes "I work for a college in the IT department, and I've been having a hard time finding quality resources that cover IT topics with relationship to education. So I ask you: outside of Slashdot, what listservs, newsgroups, fourms, etc. should I be participating in? In particular, I am interested in resources that tend to cover more legal topics such as the now-approved anti-peer-to-peer law."
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those who are most able to pay handover less than a family of four living off of 40k
Do you really believe that's true? You should take a look at this:
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes [american.com]
I'm not sure who you mean by, "those most able to pay" but if you mean the top 1% of income earners, they make a lot of money, no doubt about that, but they pay a larger percentage of taxes than the percentage of income they earn. They make 20% of income and pay 40% of taxes. You may not think that's enough. I'm willing to debate that,
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Add them up and the average 40k/year homeowners a higher percentage of their income in taxes than Gill Gates.
PS: I know people hate income tax which is why we have all those hidden taxes but it's all just money and when the government spends it they take it from somewhere.
Converge Magazine (Score:3, Interesting)
Tech & Learning Magazine (Score:3, Informative)
EDUCAUSE. (Score:5, Informative)
The best organization for higher ed IT is EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu) -- their mailing lists and their conferences are great. Go to their web site, find some mailing lists in your area of expertise, and subscribe.
--saint
David Warlick's blog (Score:1)
ACM SIGITE (Score:1)
The ACM has a special interest group [sigite.org] in information technology education.
edugeek (Score:1, Informative)
edugeek of course, www.edugeek.net
Games in education (Score:1)
Campus Technology (Score:1)
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A few more resources... (Score:2)
I get the Wired Campus newsletter digest daily from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com [chronicle.com]
There's also plenty of books out there about technology and/or education. Harry Lewis, the former Dean of Harvard College, wrote one:
http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Bits-Liberty-Happiness-Explosion/dp/0137135599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224705390&sr=1-1 [amazon.com]
And I wrote one, myself:
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/authoritas.html [aarongreenspan.com]
Aaron
edna (Score:1)
From the about page:
edna is a network of the education and training community. It includes government and non-government schooling systems, early childhood, vocational and technical education, adult and community education and higher education.
Might be close to what you're after...