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Happy Reading for today
there is more on the blog than in the emails I send
and somehow it seems "truthier" too!


best,

<Karen>


1)
NAEP FORECASTING
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007328
A recent study by the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) attempts to
relate student achievement on the twelfth-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
in math in terms of postsecondary educational outcomes.  For example, of the seniors who scored below
NAEP's "Basic" level, 46% did not go on to higher education and only 18% went on to receive a
bachelor's degree.  In contrast, of the seniors who scored at NAEP's "Basic" level, 82% went on to
college (53% to a four-year institution) and 50% went on to receive a bachelor's degree.  Moreover,
of the seniors who scored at NAEP's "Proficient" level, most students (95%) went on to college
(84% to a four-year institution) and 79% went on to receive a bachelor's degree.  And, of the
seniors who scored at NAEP's "Advanced" level, nearly all students (98%) went on to college
(94% to a four-year institution) and 91% went on to receive a bachelor's degree.  On their
own, the study's findings are intuitive.  Yet, in light of an earlier NCES study
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007482 which found that most state
fourth- and eighth-grade proficiency standards fall at or below NAEP's "Basic" range, they
do suggest the need to raise expectations to improve students' odds in higher education.

2)
Literacy and national reading statistics. What teachers can do to improve literacy by teaching reading.
Literacy and the National Reading Statistics, Prison rates and test scores.

Literacy Statistics when they can't read by 3rd. grade.
FORECASTING
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/stats.asp
(NAEP) FORECASTING figures show that the minority differential in reading achievement is a persistent problem
that has not changed in the least since 1979 (NAEP1998)
Department of Education recent findings indicate that U.S. schools show little “significant
difference” in the performance of kids in the early grades since 1992 and literally no
differences in the math and reading scores of 17-year-olds over the past 34 years.

3)
SPEAK UP SURVEY
http://www.netdayspeakup.org/
Through December 15, K-12 students, teachers, administrators, and parents from
across the nation have the opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on how technology
should be used in the education process through Project Tomorrow's fifth annual Speak Up survey.  
This year's survey features new questions, addressing student interest (and parent support)
in math, science, and technology careers; utilizing web 2.0 tools, like MySpace, in school; the
merit of 21st century skills, such as learning a new language; the value of emerging technologies,
such as video games, in education; and designing the ultimate, 21st century school.  
Results are shared with participating schools and school districts so they can use the data
for planning and community discussion.  Results are also used by government agencies
and various organizations to inform new programs and polices.  

4)
Teenage Privacy and Age Verification
http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042597.php
Adam Thierer of the Progress & Freedom Foundation
complete with a podcast he did with other experts on the issue.

5)
EDUCATION selling K-12 student INFORMATION and their rights to privacy
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/PRIVACY_INFORMATION.html
Privacy and Encryption companies gather and sell k12 student information.
Check to see whether your school district has a policy about disclosing student information.

6)
Copyright Protection on the Social Web:
Fair Use Rights and mashups
Media and social-Web companies Coalition
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_7215686?nclick_check=1
Media: Disney, Viacom, CBS, NBC, and News Corp. on the media side
Web: Microsoft, MySpace (parent is News Corp.), Veoh Networks and Dailymotion (In france)
announced some copyright-protection guidelines
1) having in place by the end of the year "filtering software that blocks all
content media companies flag as being unauthorized,"
2) keeping the filters up to date
3) "cooperation between media and Web companies to allow 'wholly original'
user-generated videos to be posted and to accommodate 'fair use' of copyrighted material as allowed under law.
YouTube's copyright-protection uses "software to find unique characteristics in
the clips so it can detect copies posted by YouTube users without permission,
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-youtube16oct16,0,3144564.story
 "Media companies can ask Google to automatically delete every unauthorized copy
or to slap ads on the clips and promote them."
Both the AP and the L.A. Times said neither the new coalition nor YouTube have as yet defined "fair use,"
though both said fair use of copyrighted material would be allowed.

7)
Net Happenings CITIZENS:
Learn What you need to know about Fair Use to Protect Your Rights
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/copyrightleft2.html
and
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw4.html


What is the definition of copyright?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/1copyright.html
Learn about Copyright do's and don't
including digital rights management at the Educational CyberPlayGround.
Topics Include: Copyleft, Plagiarism, Fair Use, Mashups, Open Source, Music, Art, and Publishing.


8)
Story Telling, the Oral Tradition from Bards, Ballads, Folkmusic, and Folktales used in the classroom
Story Telling - the Oral Tradtion, Bards, Ballads, Folkmusic, Folktales & gossip used in the classroom.
MUSIC USED TO TELL THE STORY
Plato warned that reading would be the downfall of the Oral Tradition and memory.

BARDS ARE THE OFFICIAL STORY TELLERS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Story_telling.html
"In ancient days, all the men knew the same hunting songs, and all the women knew the same lullaby.
Then, when agriculture was invented, then class society developed and you have priesthood and
aristocracy that owned the land, and now they could afford to have, for example, music made for them.
And this was the beginning of high art. Talented professionals would spend their whole lives
creating the most elegant culture they could -- if you want to use that word. The ordinary person,
99 percent of the population probably, could look at this and admire it from afar, but in their daily
life they kept on making their own music, doing their own sewing, constructing their own houses
and telling their own stories, usually without the benefit of any writing paper.

9)
MUSIC LAW: music deals, youtube + warner, PRODUCTION CONTRACTS and Payola
The Story told by The Turtles. Music Deals - Big Media doesn't protect the Artist.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com//music/musiclawdeals.html

10)
Plagiarism in Dylan, or a Cultural Collage?
We are talking about mashups and fair use.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/CDylan.html

11)
Admins, Teachers and Parents do you know What Can Kids Put Up Online?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/5copyright.html

12)
Character Development
Adolescent Character Development - struggling with Social Pressure in the online and offline world.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/character.html

13)
Professors Get an `F' in Copyright Protection From Publishers
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/teachers/aup.html

14)
How To Erase Your Hard Drive
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/erasehd.html

15)
OPEN SOURCE FREE CLASSROOM COURSEWARE TOOLS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/opensource.html

16)
What Makes A Viral Video Successful
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/ViralMarketing.html

17)
Keep It Secret Stupid
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/secrutiysecretmodel.html

18)
HURRICANE, School Security, and Emergency Communication
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster2.html

19)
Most Australian children go online for the first time between the ages of
5 and 10 and quickly become Net regulars. Nearly half of Australians 6-17 are online daily.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22590496-16123,00.html
75% of those aged 15 to 17 going online daily for study and to chat with friends."
YouTube llaunched its Australian site
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22634516-16123,00.html

20)
How much time is too much time on the screen?
http://www.news.com/When-the-PC-becomes-a-parenting-problem/2009-1025_3-6212826.html
"More than three-quarters of Americans age 12 and older spend about 8.9 hours online per week,
up about an hour from a 2005 ~ USC-Annenberg Digital Future Project
"But young people, specifically ages 8 to 18, spend about an hour on the computer and 49 minutes
playing video games per day ~ Kaiser Family Foundation.


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