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		<title>TED Talk Inspires Young Inventor to Bypass College; Win Thiel Fellowship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoonseo Kang was a member of his high school Robotics team. He thought he might like to study engineering and economics in college and his family was looking forward to his successful college career. However, according to an interview by MAKE, Yoonseo watched the Open Source Ecology&#8217;s (OSE) founder Marcin Jakubowski&#8217;s TEDTalk and decided to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Calculus and Quantum Physics Through Comics</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/05/13/learning-calculus-and-quantum-physics-through-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 10:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people find calculus and quantum physics intimidating. These subjects are for geeky, smart kids with no social life, right? Well, geeky kids might find calculus fun and interesting in ways most others may not, but thanks to comic-style books on these subjects, calculus and physics feel more like reading the Sunday comics in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Illich – Seeing the Future of Education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Ivan Illich in 1972, “Universal education through schooling is not feasible”.  His radical ideas regarding schooling provoked much debate back in the 1970s, with most dismissing him as an over-zealous new-age hippy.  Could it be, however, that he was rather a forward-thinking would-be educational revolutionary?  Are his ideas still valid today, and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Fun: Easy Origami Projects</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/05/06/summer-fun-easy-origami-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your plans this summer, its always fun to make stuff. We&#8217;ve found several really easy Origami projects that even younger children will enjoy. Best of all, the resulting art is functional and beautiful. Our favorite project is the box with lid.  Not only are these little boxes attractive, they are great for gift-giving, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing for Homeschoolers and Unschoolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TED videos have always been great for kids. We&#8217;ve been viewing talks as a family for years, enjoying insights into different ways of thinking. With TED-Ed videos, you can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. The featured lessons are mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Erez Lieberman Aiden Makes Mathematics Fun</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/27/googles-erez-lieberman-aiden-make-mathematics-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erez Lieberman Aiden is an accomplished mathematician and physicist, winning many of the top prizes in math and science and all before the age of 35. If you are familiar with Google&#8217;s Ngram website, you&#8217;ve already had a peek into Erez Lieberman&#8217;s research. Lately, though, he&#8217;s been delving into the human genome and I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it&#8217;s Important that Tor/Forge Books are Going DRM-Free</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/25/why-its-important-that-torforge-books-are-going-drm-free/</link>
		<comments>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/25/why-its-important-that-torforge-books-are-going-drm-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a security measure placed on digital material to prevent people from making unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. The problem that occurs, though, is that people comfortable with printed books that have made the shift to ebooks find that DRM protections prevent them from using ebooks the way they currently use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird and Annoying? Only to Those Who Can&#8217;t Think Outside the Box</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/21/weird-and-annoying-only-to-those-who-cant-think-outside-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homeschool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that child, the precocious know-it-all that talks enthusiastically and incessantly about arcane topics like 19th century rifling patterns. This child is so &#8216;odd&#8217;. Normal children do not talk like &#8216;little professors&#8217;. Normal children talk about age-appropriate material, like their favorite star on American Idol or the latest episode of Sponge Bob. So, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Reevaluate How We Evaluate Our Kids</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/18/its-time-to-reevaluate-how-we-evaluate-our-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/18/its-time-to-reevaluate-how-we-evaluate-our-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JenniferN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scandal began a few years ago when The Atlanta Constitution Journal decided to analyze multiple years worth of standardized test scores from schools in the Atlanta area, in an attempt to clarify just how effective these tests were in evaluating student academic progress.   With the millions of dollars and countless hours and other resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Intel Education Tablet Device Designed for Classroom Management not Learning</title>
		<link>http://spottybanana.net/2012/04/11/new-intel-education-tablet-device-designed-for-classroom-management-not-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ginac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is developing a small, ruggedized tablet device called the studybook aimed squarely at school students. Smaller and less expensive than an iPad, the device will feature cameras with applications for performing time-lapse photography and add-on lenses that turn the device into a microscope (although you can do this [...]]]></description>
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