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By jdupuis on June 14, 2011.
  • Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket
  • Is e-learning the food-bank of education?
  • My "must have" apps after 1 academic year on the iPad
  • Teaching Them How to Think
  • The (Revised) Case Study
  • Why I Decided to Start a Blog
  • When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression: Jillian C. York
  • Tinkering with technology education
  • Zuckerberg and Schmidt warn on over-regulation of web
  • The Value of a Humanities Degree: Six Students' Views
  • Entrepreneurship vs. Scholarship?
  • The Facebook Mirror
  • Roads Taken and Not Taken
  • Hard work and success and the difference between the two
  • with great power... (Ethics, hacking, software development and technological progress)
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