Results tagged “New York Times” from Learn at Every Turn - Creative, Enriched Homeschooling

For some time, I've questioned the wisdom of investing too much personal information in any one large web service provider. Thanks to this article in the New York Times, I've decided to stop using Google services. I do not want any company that demonstrates such a cavalier attitude toward the privacy of my information to have access to that information.

(Lest you think that Google simply made a programming oversight, please read the following article. This lastest business with Buzz potentially put people's lives in danger from abused spouses to political dissidents to those who may refrain from seeking suicide prevention help out of privacy concerns. Furthermore, professionals with ethical confidentiality obligations  who use Google services such as gmail need to think through those obligations before using those services. But, I guess according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, those individuals shouldn't be living their lives or engaging in their professions anyway.)

As a result, I will need to work behind the scenes on Learn, and my time to post will be limited for a bit. I will also be unable to keep up on some of my favorite blogs. Rest assured, I will be back both as a writer and reader shortly.

However, I just woke to the start of a lovely three-day weekend, which I plan to spend enjoying my family and life in general. I hope you intend to do something similar.

I intend to get back to posting my own thoughts pretty soon. In the meantime, however, I don't want to miss these interesting links.

Today, the New York Times published an article on the increased demand in business and government to thwart computer attacks. As a result, colleges and universities are increasingly creating programs to meet this need.

I am hard pressed to find a field where analytical thinking and thinking "outside the box" would be so necessary.

This is just a short post as I'm on my way out the door for the weekend. I just spotted this post on the Paper Cuts blog on the New York Times website. It provides what appear to be some good links for children's summer reading lists. Of course, I'm not really sure why summer reading should end with summer, but that's another post.

About two weeks ago, I posted about a recent article on Scientific American on children's need for play. A second article published in the New York Times recently reported another study in the journal Pediatrics came to a similar conclusion. According to "The Three R's? A Fourth Is Crucial, Too: Recess," "[n]ew research suggests that play and down time may be as important to a child's academic experience as reading, science and math, and that regular recess, fitness or nature time can influence behavior concentration, and even grades."

I can't help but wonder how we ever concluded children didn't need play and down time to be healthy and, among other things, to learn at their best?