I just finished watching a 2005 video of Thomas Friedman lecturing at MIT. He provides a nice summary of his thesis in The World is Flat and explains the “flatteners” that are re-shaping our society and all societies. This was a “refresher course” for me, having read the book about two years ago. It’s especially [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a lunch hour listening to two elementary teachers discussing a number of issues surrounding technology in the district. We spent a lot of time discussing Macs and PC’s. Our PC-only district shares a teacher center with an adjacent district with a large installed base of Macs and the [...]
“The things you put on mySpace can come back to haunt you later in life when you are applying to college or looking for a job.” Many a school administrator, parent, teacher, and/or internet safety expert has uttered these words to groups of kids who generally receive the warning with varying levels of disinterest, fear, [...]
