[PN] Digital Bridges (6 Nov. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for Papers

International Conference on Education and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications (EISTA '04)
July 21 - 25, 2004 Orlando, Florida
Sent by Prof. Freddy Malpica, President,
Inter-American Organization of Higher Education
http://www.confinf.org/eista04

* Reference Websites

Dissertation on "students' experiences of body, space/place,
relationship, time, and identity" <deos@psu.edu> 3 Nov 2003
Paulette Robinson <paulette@umd.edu>
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~paulette/Dissertation

Intensive Mandarin Programme
[and other online courses offered - Ed.]
National University of Singapore Extension
http://www.nus.edu.sg/nex

* Book Reviews

Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach
Reviewer: Peter Paolucci
Digital Bridges: Developing Countries in the Knowledge Economy
Reviewer: Steve McCarty
Educational Technology & Society 6(4), October 2003
(Journal of the International Forum of Educational Technology
& Society and the IEEE Learning Technology Task Force)
http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/6_4/index.html

* Periodical articles on technology and literacy

Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia
[Amazon introduces an epoch-making online book search feature - Ed.]
Wired, December 2003 issue
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60948,00.html

Study Links TV Habits to Reading Trouble
By Siobhan McDonough, Guardian, UK: October 28, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3319800,00.html

Doping Kids
"As pharmaceutical companies push their products, more and more kids
are being treated with powerful -- and untested -- adult drugs. ...
[Parents] 'want their kids to have the pills they've seen on TV' [!] ...
'[O]rdinary childhood problems are pathologized into a disease.' ...
'[A] third of the kids I see are on at least two prescription drugs,'
says [Dr.] Borowitz, 'most often a drug for ADHD and an antihistamine.'"
By Helen Cordes, Mother Jones, September/October 2003 Issue
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/36/ma_503_01.html

Lately the "only in Japan" stories are exceeded only by the
"only in the USA" ones :-/

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
Bookmark: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve
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