Category: disruptive-technology
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Notes and Thoughts on Negraponte’s $100 laptop speech last week
Andy Carvin posted the audio from Nicholas Negraponte’s address last week at the MIT Emerging Technology Review conference today on the MIT $100 laptop project, and this evening in my Microcomputer Applications class we are listening to this audio file and reflecting about it. Here are my notes from the first 30 minutes of the…
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Skype in the Classroom
My latest article for the TechEdge, the quarterly magazine of the Texas Computer Education Association, is available online. Hopefully this one won’t be subject to pre-publication censorship, as my last submission was. Here are the opening and closing paragraphs, which will give you a taste of the flavor you can find in the full article.…
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Disruptive Technology Censorship?
This past weekend I finished writing a new article I had intended to publish in the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association. I have been a regular columnist for the TechEdge since 1997, all my published articles are available online in my “Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom” article…