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		<title>Maths + students = fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article from the ABC website documents the declining standard of maths from high school through to uni. Talk to students at schools trying to maximize their ENTER scores and start to understand that the way scores are calculated drives subject choices, rather than the actual relevance of the content &#8230;
(written on the iPhone &#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/03/10/maths-students-fail/</link>
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		<title>Building a Better Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building a Better Teacher  ~ Stephens Web ~ by Stephen Downes.
Stephen comments on an article in the NY Times that claims great teaching can be taught, an issue of great interest to me and Stephen alike. In his comment (from which I declined to actually read the original article), Stephen suggests that the article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/03/09/building-a-better-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Deep specialisation key to collaboration &#124;  The Australian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couple Elizabeth Blackburn&#8217;s comments with the Climate Change Wars, and you start to see why &#8220;science&#8221; is getting a bad name. Add in the funding models over recent times (who pays for research) and it all starts getting even murkier.
NOBEL prizewinner Elizabeth Blackburns discoveries in molecular biology led her into cross-disciplinary research in cancer and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/02/25/deep-specialisation-key-to-collaboration-the-australian/</link>
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		<title>Academic freedom of expression at The University of Melbourne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing Resolutions of Council &#8211; Chapter 4 &#8211; General Resolutions Including Protocols : The University of Melbourne.
It&#8217;s a sad reflection on Australian academia that this needs to be stated clearly, but it is refreshing that it has been.
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		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/02/20/academic-freedom-of-expression-at-the-university-of-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>My Taekwondo blog &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is more than two years since I wrote anything in my taekwondo blog &#8211; but not because there is nothing interesting to say. In the past two years I have learned so much more about technique and application and moral culture, and it has been an exciting and challenging time to be part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/01/25/my-taekwondo-blog/</link>
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		<title>Doctor and Patient &#8211; Looking Beyond MCATs to Pick Future Doctors &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctor and Patient &#8211; Looking Beyond MCATs to Pick Future Doctors &#8211; NYTimes.com.
The investigators found that the results of the personality test had a striking correlation with the students’ performance. Neuroticism, or an individual’s likelihood of becoming emotionally upset, was a constant predictor of a student’s poor academic performance and even attrition. Being conscientious, on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/01/15/doctor-and-patient-looking-beyond-mcats-to-pick-future-doctors-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<title>Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading lots of Oliver Sacks over Christmas &#8211; reinforcing my view that the foundation of scientific study is observation. He provides this quote in the preface of &#8220;An anthropologist on Mars&#8221; which is itself from G.K. Chesterton&#8217;s Father Brown:
Science is a grand thing when you can get it; in its real sense one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2010/01/06/science/</link>
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		<title>Bruce Schneier&#8217;s Essays and Op Eds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Essays and Op Eds.
I have a few Bruce Schneier books on computer security, but I have only just found his website &#8211; looks like a lot of thought-provoking reading for me (Thanks Pat for the link!)

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		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2009/11/16/bruce-schneiers-essays-and-op-eds/</link>
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		<title>Yay! Finally fixed my login issues &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to this post, I have finally solved my Wordpress login issue:
Fixing the WordPress login issue &#124; John Hawkins Unrated.
Last May, I noticed that I had only posted 4 things in the past six months and had not been doing regular upgrades and was basically completely out of touch with the web world and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2009/11/14/fixing-the-wordpress-login-issue-john-hawkins-unrated/</link>
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		<title>Educational theory and &#8220;Being Digital&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently re-focused my thinking on issues arising from Ilana Snyder&#8217;s &#8220;Being Digital&#8221; project that I worked on last year.  I prepared a report on some of the data from that project, available online at http://preview.tinyurl.com/ca8o45. The interesting part for me was reading some of the literature on cultural form (particularly Raymond Williams) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wisebytes.net/wordpress/2009/05/07/educational-theory-and-being-digital/</link>
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