Why do dumb people make so much money?

A friend of mine was asked this question by his teenage son as news of the financial disaster played on the morning news program.  His answer plays out in the embedded set of slides.
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Paperless Classrooms: a miscelleny

I have a tendency to open an article, skim, and then decide that it will take more attention than I have at the moment to address, process or blog about.  So, I leave the tab open in Firefox (which once opened, will re-open upon restart).  This process has left me with 5 firefox windows with [...]

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Music in instruction

Arguing against the old-school notion that learning can only occur in absolute quiet (think a library), her experience with her class told her that learning often occurs when a student is able to focus on a task (obvious enough). But she was not to prevail against policy.

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Technology and Higher Ed–Educause survey

Just how wired are our colleges and universities?  Educause, a non-profit whose mission states that they are transforming higher ed through IT, was reported in InsideHigherEd as having released a survey/report about the use of IT in colleges and universities.
A brief summery goes like this:

Use of open source: 32% (2005) –> 47% (2006) –> 51% [...]

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Taking college content home–Streaming lectures

While I can appreciate hesitation to being filmed (one mis-fired joke endlessly looped on YouTube sort of horrors), I also see tremendous benefit in providing access to as wide a range of educational content as possible.

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