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• Please note: Because of my new book coming out in Spring of 2014, I’ve reduced my posting to three times a week: Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
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• Audrey Watters premiers on The Atlantic with an article about why students hacking their iPads was a good thing. [The Atlantic]
• Patrick Honner, mathemagician extraordinaire, has been nominated for a presidential math / science award. This is cool. [Mr. Honner]
• The pope wants to make the Catholic Church less Vatican-centric, more modern. Jesuits rule. [Talking Points Memo]
• This American Life wants to hear if you’ve ever used their material in your classroom. [TAL]
• In honor of Connected Educator Month, Rafranz Davis lays out another lens about diversity within connected educator communities. [RNDesigns]

Quotable:

Edu paraphrased quote of the day: "All this talk about STEAM-powered schools seems so 19th century." (And yes, it was tongue-in-cheek.)

— Basil Kolani (@bkolani) October 2, 2013

Basil for the win.

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