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There’s a Kindle on my wish list

There is a new technology in our midst, and once again old-school thinking is about to get a serious shake-up. Kindle is a new gadget, available from Amazon.com, that allows digital books to be downloaded and read on the go. The device is sexy, smart and intuitive. It also apparently offers a very good reading […]

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So you want to write a book?

Now is your chance to write a 50 000-word novel with a “fun, seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing. November is “National Novel Writing Month”, and thousands of people from around the world are taking the opportunity to become real novelists. This is how it works: You write a 175-page (50 000-word) novel, starting on November 1 and […]

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A vision of today’s students

Here is proof that most education systems are not adequately keeping up or preparing students to deal with tomorrow today. That’s almost OK, because students are eventually going to adapt their experience and their educational choice accordingly, so something will have to give. But in the meantime, today’s students are in a major transition stage, […]

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A vision of today’s students

Here is proof that most education systems are not adequately keeping up or preparing students to deal with tomorrow today. That’s almost OK, because students are eventually going to adapt their experience and their educational choice accordingly, so something will have to give. But in the meantime, today’s students are in a major transition stage, […]