• Just registered for free: "Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2011" #VWBPE11 http://t.co/NCfuSta via @eventbrite #edtech #edchat #
• Libyan leader shows us what it was like to write and read in Elizabethan times http://ow.ly/41JNR #engchat #
• We need more research like this: Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language http://ow.ly/41PpQ (via @lousylinguist) #
• 70 Excellent Links for Dyslexia Support http://ow.ly/41Oi5 #dyslexia (via http://technodys.blogspot.com by @technodys) #
• Popular Linguistics » Table of Contents http://ow.ly/41JMa #
• New on MetaphorHacker.net: Literally: Triumph of pet peeve over matter http://j.mp/dEDDHJ #
• Suggested motto for any reform: "There are no solutions, just decisions." Courtesy of http://ow.ly/41vWT #edchat #
• We talk about obstacles to reform in education as if all reform is good. There are reforms that need obstacles: http://ow.ly/41vCD #edchat #
• RT @metaphorhacker: I like the idea of leveling up in games as a model for an alternative to grading. http://ow.ly/41tVb #edchat #
• RT @edtechsteve: I think "real" reform might only be possible if students lead the way. #edchat #
• Alison Wolf showed that having had a job is more important to getting a job than education. What to reform, then? http://ow.ly/41vpk #edchat #
• Education doesn't happen before life but alongside life. Don't try to reform it to solve societal problems. Reform society instead! #edchat #
• RT @ian23505: Headlines are dominated by all that is wrong, which is a small % of the whole of education. #edchat #
• We should try to solve proximate rather than ultimate problems with reforms. Feed the poor. Don't teach them fishing. #edchat #
• Perhaps we should read The Manufactured Crisis before launching into full-scale reform. http://ow.ly/41vaX #edchat #
• RT @fliegs: Tossing money to schools will help in the short run. Tossing money into solving poverty-related problems will work #edchat #
• @lousylinguist Historically the problems with ed-tech has been that they only improved a fraction of the overall learning process. #edchat in reply to lousylinguist #
• @lousylinguist Agree. But even the impact of tools is often overstated. Videos in the classroom, computers, CD-ROMs, iPads, ...? #edchat in reply to lousylinguist #
• One of the factors hindering reforms according to Tyack&Cuban is the persistence of the "grammar of schooling" http://ow.ly/41uQt #edchat #
• "Tinkering toward Utopia" great read on the challenges facing educational reform going back over a century http://ow.ly/41uNP #edchat #
• Can you name one successful educational reform since the introduction of the blackboard? #edchat #
• RT @kylepace: @stumpteacher Tonight's #edchat topic: What are the real issues surrounding Education Reform? #
• @Zendesk My problem is: don't need all the features of lowest plan but need some from higher ones. Can only afford lowest plan. #

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