“david bollier”

Critical Acclaim for David Bollier's Silent Theft "Provocative. . . . always on target." --Newsweek "This beautifully written, carefully argued book shows how little we learned from the past. Free and open resources have always been central to creativity and growth; Bollier shows how in a range of i... More

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture," from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and Web 2.0--in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture," ""A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and h... More

Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed a monopoly on access to all federal court decisions. A Texas company recently filed a patent on a kind of rice grown in India for centuries. Other businesses now claim ownership of mathematical algorithms embedded in software, valuab... More

That there is danger of forgetting the importance of content in determining educational methods and results. It is obvious that the child is the central and important element in educational activity; but learning activities are concerned with facts and materials and situations. English plays a vital... More

In the classroom of today most learning takes place through oral communication. Books, maps, pictures, films serve as guides and supplementary material but most of the burden is still the teacher`s as many a raw throats at the end of a hard teaching day will satisfy. The present book equips english ... More

The following elements make up the english programme in a secondary school. Once more let us catalogue the several phases of language education in secondary schools. The three large divisions are: Speaking, Reading and Writing. This instruction in rading writing and speaking can not be left exclusiv... More