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Ideas
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau - Undated entry) (http://hdt.typepad.com/henrys_blog/2010/11/november-3-1850.html)

Select Books
Acuña, Rodolfo. 1970. Occupied America: the Chicano's struggle toward liberation. Canfield Press.

Bok, Derek. 2003. Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Unviersity Press.

Freire, Paulo, and Myra Bergman Ramos (trans.). 1970. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum International.

Illich, Ivan 1971. Deschooling Society. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.

Illich, Ivan 1973. Tools for Conviviality. (http://www.scytheconnection.com/adp/convivNote.html). New York, NY: Harper and Row.

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select References
Boardman, Elizabeth, Janet Hale, Ed Hale, and Kathy Runyan, Bob Runyan, and Steve Leeds. 2011. Latest news from the "Pay Your Taxes Under Protest" Campaign. April 26. laquaker.blogspot.com.

Brown, Jerry. 2010. State of California's Education Platform. Oakland, CA: jerrybrown.org

Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology. 2007. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.

Flipping the classroom. 2011. Flipping the classroom: Hopes that the internet can improve teaching may at last be bearing fruit. Sep 17th LOS ALTOS, CA: The Economist.

Friedman, Tom. 2010. Steal this Movie, Too. August 24. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Friedman, Tom. 2010. We’re No. 1(1)!. September 11. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Gordhamer, Soren. 2011. 4 Lessons for Parents in a Constantly Connected World. April 30. Mashable.com

Guttenplan, D.D. 2010. For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web. November 1. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Harvard Gazette. 2010. Like-minded: Reform advocates Rhee, Bush, Podesta talk politics of education. November 18. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.

Harvard Gazette. 2011. Record applications to Harvard College: Nearly 35,000 seek admission to Class of '15. January 14. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.

Hofstadter, Richard. 1966. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York, NY: Vintage Press.

Hu, Winnie. 2010. Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It. June 13. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Jacobs, Andrew. 2010. China’s Army of Graduates Is Struggling. December 11. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lacey, Marc. 2011. Rift in Arizona as Latino Class Is Found Illegal. January 7. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lifshits, Yury. 2011. 100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education. January 7. Mashable.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. A Course Load for the Game of Life. September 4. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools. May 5. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Mankiw, Greg. 2011. The Rate of Return on Human Capital - David Leonhardt reports. June 27. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Manousos, Anthony. 2011. Howard Brinton as a Theologian and Apologist for “Real Quakerism”. April 26. Llaquaker.blogspot.com

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Why top students don’t want to teach. December. mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top third graduates to a career in teaching--full report. September.

McKinsey Quarterly. 2010. Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top third graduates to a career in teaching--47-page appendix including charts on U.S. and international systems. September. Miyagawa, Shigeru. 2010. MIT OpenCourseWare: A Decade of Global Benefit. Vol. XXIII No. 1. September / October 2010. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu

Ramirez, Gerardo and Sian L. Beilock. 2011. Writing About Testing Worries Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom. 14 January Vol. 331 no. 6014 pp. 211-213. Science.

Richtel, Matt. 2010. Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction. November 21. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee. 2010. Rising Above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.

Wall, Mike. 2010. Far-flung movies may inspire future scientists: Movies can influence young people with open, malleable minds. December 28. msnbc.msn.com.

Young, T.R. 1998. Interactively Rich and Informationally Diverse Techniques. The Red Feather Institute.

Grades

Lewin, Tamar. 2010. A Quest to Explain What Grades Really Mean. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lewis, Harry. 2010. Can Grades Be Controlled in a "Fair" Way?. (Former Dean of Harvard College). December 26. Cambridge, MA: harry-lewis.blogspot.com

Lewis, Harry. 2003. October 30, 2003: Grades. October 30. Cambridge, MA: people.seas.harvard.edu.

Thomas, David. 2011. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Recognizes 305 Schools as 2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools. September 15. www.ed.gov.

Select Video and Audio
Alsagoff, Zaid Ali. 2011. Insightful Videos Exploring Why the Finnish Education System Rocks!. Malaysia: zaidlearn.blogspot.com.

Cornwell, Reid. 2011. Instructional Technology: Looking Backward, Thinking Forward - Earlham College. May 25. The Center for Internet Research.

de Martin Juan Carlos, and Charles Nesson. 2011. The Post-Humboldtian University: Re-thinking the University's Role in Society in the Network Age. May 17, 2011. Cambridge, MA: Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Nesson, Charles, and David Weinberger (interviewer). 2010. The University in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: MediaBerkman.

Spitzer, Manfred. 2010. Mediathek: Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer in Oldenburg. Oldenburg, Germany: OldenburgEins

Select Websites
MIT. 2011. MIT + 150.

New York Times' Education Section. 2011. New York Times' Education Section. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Songs for Teaching: The Definitive Source for Educational Music. 2011. Songs for Teaching: The Definitive Source for Educational Music Index. Bloomfield Hills, MI: songsforteaching.com.

Select Wikis
Dopp. 2011. Wikis in the Classroom. April 15. community.wikia.com.

Williamson, Ben. 2011. Wikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age. February 7. dmlcentral.net - Digital Media Learning Central.

World University and School Links
Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

Education: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Education

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Memory: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Memory

One Laptop per Child: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT

Philosophy: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy

Proof of Educational Information Technologies' Effectiveness: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Proof_of_Educational_Information_Technologies%27_Effectiveness

Teaching: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Teaching

Theories of Learning subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
e.g. find a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely ...

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Join the World University and School Google Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Careers
Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Digital To Do
Android

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Print

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
ScienceSim. 2011. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php. Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

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Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 (This group may be archived).

Google + - https://plus.google.com/

Google Buzz's World University and School - https://profiles.google.com/WorldUniversityAndSchool

Google Groups's World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

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Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

World University & School subject group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities

World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

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