Not So Distant Future

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Not So Distant Future

Entries from December 3, 2007

Shifting views

December 3, 2007 · 4 Comments · libraries

With increasing pressures for AP courses, standardized testing, and college prep curriculums, we struggle to assimilate the different types of students in our schools, who we sometimes find are treated like widgets in a factory, instead of finely hand-crafted wines.   Nationally, we determine their success by the output of the factory, rather than the depth of [...]

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Library design, anyone?

December 1, 2007 · No Comments · Design, libraries

Want to design a youth library in Nairobi, Kenya?  Check out more about AMD’s Open Architecture Challenge to design a library and media space, internet cafe, and research center for SIDAREC, the Slums Information Development and Resources Centre. Their proposal astutely points out the problem of the digital divide: “Today’s world prosperity is technologically driven. The world [...]

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