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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
recent posts
- Revisiting “Space Space and More Space”: What a Pandemic-Era Learning Spaces Discussion Still Teaches Us in the AI Age
- Is “rigor” just code for “more harder”?
- VUCA Never Left the Building: RebootED Episode 58 Reminds Us Leadership in 2026 Is Still About Navigating the Unnavigable
- 13 Years Later: Daniel Pink’s Insights on Motivation Are More Relevant Than Ever in the AI Era
- 2012 Vision Still Holds: Redefining Public Education in the Age of AI and Perpetual Change
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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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I think I have been taking this whole blog thing a bit too seriously. I mean really, who’s going to read this thing anyway. So rather than be super serious about my posts I think I should keep it fresh by posting less but more often. looking through my drafts, I have a dozen things…
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In case you haven’t heard (and I doubt you have) we here at Le Grand have embarked on a grand netbook experiment. Its a funny thing really because up until a year ago we didn’t have any plans to deploy netbooks on campus. But then something happened. Something wonderful. Acer sent us seed units for…
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We use the OpenVPN module in the Untangle Open Source Network Gateway for remote access at our school district. Everything had been working flawlessly for over a year until suddenly right before I was set to leave for a two day conference, I turned on my Windows 7 RC1 Acer Aspire One netbook, fired up…
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is calling for a change in how perspective Teachers are taught in our nation’s schools of education. I am a big fan of change and think it is great that the Secretary is addressing one of the foundations of the American Education System. Not having gone through one of…
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I recently watched the Triumph of the Nerds (again) and was struck by the role Intel played in the development of the PC market. Intel developed microprocessors and dominated the market but they were not the ones that developed the PC, arguably the most important device ever to utilize their chips. Intel built a platform…
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There is on ongoing discussion at my high school about what we should and should not be teaching in our Business Applications classes. The same curriculum has been in place for several years (at least six) and consists of typing, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and very basic computer history, Internet search, hardware and Operating Systems…
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One might look at my last two posts and ask, “What’s that stuff doing there?” Well, I have decided to start posting my class objectives for the week on my blog as a way to capture them in time. You see I post my objectives in Moodle at the top of my courses every day:…
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Computer Systems Objective: Students will be introduced to microprocessors. What is a microprocessor Basic history of the microprocessor Intel vs. AMD Clock speed and bus speed Sockets and Pins Pairing a processor with a motherboard Computer Programming Objective: Students will learn about story-boarding and program design. Scenarios and story-boarding Visual story-boarding Textual story-boarding Story-board to…
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Computer Systems Objective: Students will be introduction to motherboards. What is a motherboard How does it work The components of the motherboard Computer Programming Objective: Students will learn about Alice controls for objects and cameras. Setting the stage Posing Objects Camera Controls Modifying Object Properties
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The heroes in the matrix all have cool names; the names they have chosen for themselves. Tom Anderson is Neo, and you have Morphius and Trinity too whose given names we never know. Online I am anotherschwab, the name I chose for my first web based email account because I got tired of searching for…
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