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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Speculations are rampant re the outcomes of Microsoft’s possible buyout of Yahoo. According to Brian Bergstein, “Perhaps the biggest change Microsoft and Yahoo could achieve together would be creating a better way to combine the Web and desktop computing – not to mention cell phones, TVs, cars and any other gadgets that might someday plug [...]
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David Winer (godfather of RSS [Real Simple Syndication], founder of Userland.com, and a former Harvard Law School fellow), made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz (CEO of NY Times Digital): “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times [...]
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“Infomania is attention deficit disorder for the communications age. It is the condition of impaired concentration brought about by the constant distraction of ‘always on’ technology. Infomaniacs are the kind of people who talk distractedly in conversation while thumbing text-messages about nothing much, or who interrupt a romantic dinner to check their e-mail on their [...]
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In Japan, rumblings of stiffer regulations for the Internet have critics denouncing the move as a threat to freedom of speech. (Chris Salzberg, “Japan Toughens Up on Internet Regulation,” Japan Times Online, 16 Jan. 2008.) For the full article, click here.
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Discussion forums on China’s Internet belie official accounts of the train station disasters that beset the south yesterday when unexpected wintry conditions slowed train traffic. “Savvy youth and [the] burgeoning middle class” are going online to take a no holds barred view of the disaster and the subsequent unrealistic Communist Party reports. The West can [...]
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“Web Offers a Marketplace for Budding Hemingways,” an article by Gina Keating (Reuters LA, 1 Feb. 2008), falls into the category of it was just a matter of time. Keating reports on three web publishing houses: lulu.com, “Publish your words, your art for fun or for profit”; blurb.com, “Make your own book wiith Blurb”; and [...]
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“Generation Y: Tech-savvy Grads with Pushy Parents” — the title of this Reuters London article (by Peter Apps, 31 Jan. 2008) says it all. To read the full article, click here.
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What do you make of this report from Reuters Washington: “Bidding reached $18.55 billion on Friday in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s record-setting auction of government-owned wireless airwaves”? (Peter Kaplan, “Bidding Reaches $18.55 Bln in U.S. Wireless Auction,” 1 Feb. 2008) For the full article, click here.
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This year, China, “which has 210 million people online,” is expecting to pass the US in number of Internet users. Among users, online videos are very popular. Chinese counterparts to YouTube claim “as many as 100 million viewers a day.” They “offer full-length television programs, but many popular videos are created by amateurs.” Government officials [...]
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According to a NY Times report, “Half a million American children take classes online . . . getting all their schooling from virtual public schools.” For example, “At the Florida Virtual School, the largest Internet public school in the country, more than 50,000 students are taking courses this year.” One of the benefits of [...]
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