Delicious December 12.16.09 - 12.22.09

Reshaping Learning From The Ground Up
"Teachers are wonderful, and there are hundreds of thousands of them who are creative and terrific, but they are operating in a system that is completely out of time."

A Brave New Medium: Facebook versus World of Warcraft
"With widespread adoption of the home computer and, consequently the internet, all the necessary technology for systemic interaction in everything from commerce to storytelling has arrived."

Learn To Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
"It was supposed to be the blockbuster sequel to Duke Nukem 3D. Instead, Duke Nukem Forever became the biggest videogame that never was."

Network effects \ How a new communications technology disrupted America’s newspaper industry—in 1845
"Telegraph firms would establish a new monopoly over news delivery, and would sell early access to the news to the highest bidder. Papers would be unable to compete. Circulation would decline and advertisers would flee. The democratisation of news would be undone."

Republicans, resistance and the triumph of unreason
"How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?"