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nursegirl writes:
A proposal to change Ontario's education act has been announced today. The proposal adds both physical bullying and cyber-bullying to the list of behaviours that can get a student suspended or expelled. Posting comments, pictures or videos attacking other students or teachers outside of school hours will carry the risk of school punishment, if the incident is believed to have an "impact on school climate".
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nursegirl writes:
Norwich, Conn seventh grade teacher, Julie Amero has been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after her classroom PC displayed pornographic pop-ups in class. While an expert for the defendant said he had discovered spyware on her PC that had been downloaded from a hairstyling site, the local police investigator claimed that the spyware had been downloaded from actively visiting porn sites.
Amero testified that she had told four other teachers and the assistant principal about the popups, but received no assistance. The school's internet filtration software was not working because it's license had expired.
Amero faces up to forty years in prison.
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nursegirl writes:
MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006. The 2006 Young Innovator is Joshua Schachter, of del.icio.us fame. The 2006 Young Humanitarian is Christina Galitsky from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Galitsky has done various projects related to energy efficiency, from introducing energy efficient practices to wineries, to helping bring stoves that use less wood to Sudanese refugees, to working on cheap ways to filter arsenic from wells in Bangladesh.
Technology Review has also published a related article, titled 10 Ways To Think about Innovation.
