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Ontario Student Cites Freedom of Speech After Suspension For Online Videos

Jack Christie, a grade 12 student at Donald A Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, has been indefinitely suspended for posting surreal, humorous videos to YouTube.  See the video and read the excellent June 1ST article from the Globe & Mail.

Interview in India with a Boy from the Streets

In India, between 17 million and 60 million children survive alone on India's urban streets.  This is a very short and poignant interview with one of them.

Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?

The girls drifted off for the night, to dream, together or apart, their secret dreams.  This is a fascinating and beautifully written article from the New York Times.

"First Call for Children"

The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children is sending a letter to the PM asking for a policy for program review and budgeting.  It also advocates for use of child impact assessments to determine the impact of proposed policies for children before adopting them.  It is a public call to raise the priority of children in the context of focus on aging society.

Locker Room Culture Turns Boys Off Physical Education: Ottawa Citizen (6/5/11)

The macho culture inside high school locker rooms is turning a growing number of boys off physical education and prompting researchers to delve into issues around body image and challenge popular notions of what it means to be a man.  Read More.

Recommended: A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
The book touches on a number of critical issues in digital learning, from the role of remix culture to the importance of tinkering and experimentation in creating, not merely acquiring knowledge.  Central to its premise is the idea that play is critical to understanding learning, something we can get behind.  check out interviews with authors.

This Guy Makes Some Great Points

Then the creature enters at 23 seconds... Hilarious!