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Cory Doctorow is a Canadian journalist and science fiction author. Follow him on Twitter, Web site, BoingBoing

Cory spoke at ASTE this week, and I am excited to share the things I learned from him.

• Failing well
• We tend to ignore failing.
• What we should teach kids about technology
• Reidentification - people can figure out who you are.
• What we should teach kids
• Anonymity + distance = jerky behavior
• Should we be critical of the software and systems we use?
• Proprietary vs. open
• There’s never been a field or endeavor where scrutiny by your peers has not helped.
• Adversarial peer review.
• You can lock yourself into bad systems if you’re not careful.
• If 10% of a group got together and spent their money on developing open source software then they would produce something better that what is available.
• We did this at Kodiak Middle with our Pickr app
• Collective action threshold
• What is one thing that you can do to be a transformative principal? Got out of the students’ way. Employees were empowered to cost the company money if that made the experience better.
• His teacher let him read all day for two days.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• National network of campus clubs for EFF. Email Shahid@eff.org for more information.

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