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). 
"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" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
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 
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" (
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 high-speed links to stream videos to mobile screens.” (Sinead Carew, “YouTube to Feature on Wider Range of Mobile Phones,” Reuters, 24 Jan. 2008) For the full article, click here.
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