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Here’s a summary of ideas and conversations from the edublogging community that have captured our attention in the past 48 hours.

Will Richardson chimes in ont he censorship discussion and even adds a wiki where others can post what is being blocked by schools. Mark Ahlness also weighs in with his observations. If you’re late to the debate, Will’s article will get you up to speed. Tom Hoffman responds to Miguel Guhlin’s original post with his own critique of the situation and offers up specific suggestions for coping. Miguel Guhlin responds to some of Tom’s comments.

Meanwhile David Warlick continues his Flat Classroom theme with this post on blogging in the flat classroom. At the same time, Brian Crosby puts out his plea for real working models of “messy learning” that can help create the necessary groundswell for reform in education. This is a lengthy post but there’s some good stuff here. Particularly challenging is this thought: “We hear about “
href=”http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/03/15/telling-the-new-story-2/” target=”_blank”>The New Story,” or “The Read/Write Web in the Classroom,” but who else but the choir reads, hears or cares about any of it?”

Dan Visel over at if:book has an interesting article on how the new text models created by the Web are challenging us to come up with new ways to read. This is an insightful critique of Wikipedia as well as other text phenomena related to the Web.

In the miscellaneous category today, D’Arcy Norman has kindly posted the audio from his Intro to Podcasting session. Also, Alan Levine gives this interesting summary of a NMC staff meeting in Second Life. Finally, Christopher Sessums has an informative article on personality types and how they affect learning.