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Source: Bongo Cat Have you had rock star dreams? Bongo Cat won’t get you there, but it’s still fun! The site doesn’t do much, it lets you select an instrument and play that instrument. Bongo Cat would be really good for a general music class, simple tools to create music. Or, if you don’t have…
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There has been much consternation in recent weeks about the amount of standardised testing the British government is determined to impose upon English school children. Children don’t learn any more or any better because of standardised testing, unless there is feedback on how they can improve. But SATs seem to be the weapon of choice…
It wasn’t Nineteen Eighty-Four that had the most to say about the America of the 1980s, but rather Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “In Huxley’s vision,” Postman noted, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history.” Instead: “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that…