Goldman Limits Facebook Investment to Foreign Clients – NYTimes.com

I am all for people making a buck, but this was simply a scam to provide the already-wealthy with yet another advantage over everyone else. Good thing the SEC took a look at it…happy my taxes are hard at work at least this time! Of course, now we have to wonder who will represent all of the foreign money that capitalizes on FB’s uber marketing machine….

Goldman Limits Facebook Investment to Foreign Clients – NYTimes.com.

Take Four Minutes and Become Smarter

Anyone who has children knows that education is critically important, but we also know that – even in the best of schools – helping our children understand the world around us is a significant challenge given all of the distractions that exist. Students need to understand math, science, history, global geography, literature – just to name a few. But on a daily basis, iPhones, iPads, Facebook, Google, YouTube have a tendency to get in the way – and that’s not even talking about the age-old issues of bullying, peer pressure, etc. Our schools need to teach the same information in new and different and exciting ways, and we need enthusiastic teachers to do it.

Technology has long provided an opportunity to accelerate learning, make it more personal, and do it in a way that fascinates the student. But too often it is the technology that gets in the way. But here is a difference. This clip shows us what can be done when an enthusiastic teacher merges cool technology with statistics and history to produce a truly teachable moment. Granted, your average high school teacher does not have access to the resources to create this sort of educational tool, but the resources exist to create it for them.

Give it a watch…200 countries across 200 years…all it takes is four minutes to generate discussions on everything from colonization, the Industrial Revolution and World Wars I and II, to the rise of Asia, the spread of AIDS, the damages of influenza…and on and on and on…enjoy!