Category: economics
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The Corporation documentary: A big eye opener
These are my notes I took this evening watching “The Corporation Film.” For more background on the documentary, check out the English WikiPedia page for it. The article goes through the film segment by segment, in a much more thorough way than I have here with my own notes. I added this video to our…
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Two Million Minutes: A call for educational change
The documentary film “Two Million Minutes” highlights stark contrasts in the educational experiences, perspectives, and expectations of high school students in the United States, China, and India. The film’s title is derived from the mathematical statistic that following eighth grade graduation, students have approximately two million minutes to spend until they graduate from high school.…
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Content filtering and packet shaping going mainstream?
Working for five years as I did in a higher education setting, and previously for six years in K-12 schools, I’ve recognized the differences between content filtering environments in higher ed and K12 for a long time. During my most recent years in higher education, 2001 through 2006, Napster had shut down but helped usher…
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We DO need other low cost alternatives to OLPC
I was sad to read this morning that Intel has left the board of OLPC. According to the article “Intel Drops Out of Low-Cost Laptop Initiative” on FoxNews: Both sides [OLPC and Intel] shared the objective of providing children around the world with the use of new technology, “but OLPC had asked Intel to end…
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Residential wifi proliferates
Clearly parts of the world are changing dramatically with respect to high speed Internet access. Our family is spending the Thanksgiving holidays with my parents in Kansas. Several years ago, there was only one other wireless network “visible” from my parents’ house. Last time I was here a few months ago, I seem to recall…
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Marketing in the Attention Economy
Earlier this fall I shared a three part podcast series about the “attention economy” and its implications for schools. These were titled Podcast174: Relevance in the Attention Economy Part 1: Key Ideas, Podcast187: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 2 of 3), and Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3…
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Podcast201: So The World Is Flat. Now What?
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the TechForum Southwest conference sponsored by Technology and Learning on November 2, 2007. Schools need to change to better prepare students for the dynamic challenges and opportunities of the 21st century “flat world” highlighted by Tom Friedman in his book “The World is Flat.” The…
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Time to switch to CFLs
Want to save money? Help the environment? See yet another phenomenal example of effective communication via digital storytelling? Watch Lee LeFever’s “New Light Bulbs in Plain English” video to learn how to do the first two things, and experience the third: Also available on Blip.tv. If you are looking for a great example of digital…
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Join online debates about education policy sponsored by The Economist
One of the best decisions I made in college was joining the speech and debate team as a freshman. I am firmly convinced participating/competing in intercollegiate debate as well as speech events for 4 years (extemp and impromptu were my main other events) helped me cultivate my critical thinking, organization, and public speaking skills more…