What was the last time you found something eggregiously inaccurate on Wikipedia? And if the biggest problem in education is the occasional inaccurate information what happened to the skills focus of the last decades?

In its struggle to remain relevant, Britannica is planning to open its gates to the public for contributions, to a certain extent following Wikipedia's model. But even its announcement shows that commercial interests can prevail over truth. Although Wikipedia's influence is clear, it is not mentioned once!

A new term has made its way into the edu blogosphere (such as it is): edupunk. Coined by Jim Groom, it made its way to me via Martin Weller's blog who also shared the excellent Edupunk video (see below). Edupunk spoke eloquent volumes of its potential to me the second I scanned over the word my RSS reader - in fact it got me so excited I started a public Google Notebook with excerpts from the discussion. I believe that destructivism and contrariness are just as necessary parts of the debate as constructiveness and concilliation. So, edupunk is more than welcome on the scene. Let's hope it gets a bit more traction - the Wikipedia entry may help.

"I blame the educational system" says, like so many, a leading computing pundit, and legend John C. Dvorak in his latest column. This is the core of his argument:

It's Time for Universal Computer Education - Columns by PC Magazine

A first draft of a new research ethics resource is now available on the TLRP site. http://www.tlrp.org/capacity/rm/wt/bridges . It's still a work in progress. Comments welcome.

BBC NEWS | Education | Democracy 'holds back education' The education system should be freed from local democracy if it is to meet the challenge of global competition, a leading educationist says.

This supposed conflict between democracy and education seems like something that should be discussed more.

Metaphors and analogies are a tricky business. They open up a lot of possibilities but how they are acted out in practice is not always predictable. This particular metaphor challenges us in one sense, learning is like loosing weight, i.e.