next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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This coming week, AT&T “will make its 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots free to nearly all of its broadband Internet customers.” In the past, free access was available to premium subscribers only. This means that “more than 10 million broadband customers . . . will be able to use the hotspots free of charge.” (“More AT&T Clients [...]
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Here’s an interesting YouTube video of Chris Pirillo sharing his opinions on this question. To see the video, click here.
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The trend toward wireless communications continues. Hao reports that Hawaiian Telcom yesterday laid off . . . about 10 percent of its management team, as part of ongoing cost cutting and restructuring.” The number of access lines has been falling, from “6.9 percent to 572,997 in the year to Sept. 30.” The decline is attributed [...]
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Handheld wireless devices continue their inroads into the once formidable domain of computers. Carew reports that “YouTube.com is opening up its service to run on millions more phones which are capable of using high-speed wireless links.” This service is aimed at “a broader range of devices used by 100 million consumers worldwide that rely on [...]
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James N. Shimabukuro
Associate Professor, English
Kapi’olani Community College
James N. Shimabukuro is an associate professor of English at Kapi’olani Community College, which is part of the University of Hawai’i System. He earned an EdD in 1986 at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. He has been teaching composition at Kapi’olani for more than 30 years and was [...]
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