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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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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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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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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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I overheard a University of California professor the other day discussing hiring. He said he would never consider someone that had an online degree for a professor position. His reason was simple, he didn’t think it was a real degree. I found this a bit disheartening since I earned a Master’s degree through an online…
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This tweet come across from Jason Calacanis today on my new favorite subject – what is twitter?: JasonCalacanis This quote “twitter is dial tone” from TWIT is really trending… http://tinyurl.com/ce5v6n @ev @biz @leolaporte Which got me thinking about my last blog post “So what is twitter anyway?” in which I so eloquently compare twitter to…
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Yesterday I was using Google to search for a way to load balance more than one Edubuntu Server for an upcoming summer project. Usually I can find what I am looking for on Google in the first page or two but this time all I could find was an old Linux Journal article from 2006…
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I just finished reading an article by Lester R. Brown about an impending global food crisis entitled “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?”. In the article Brown makes the case that the combination of global warming, population growth and declining fresh water aquifers is a recipe for a global disaster. The prediction is pretty grim…
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