Folks, when you use new technologies to teach the same old garbage, you’re not going to get the results that you want. The NY Times started to touch on this in their article, Seeing no progress, some schools drop laptops: …the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting [...]

Via the marvelous Web 2.0 technology of trackbacks, I saw that Cristobal Cobo posted a link back here, along with a truly fantastic video: View This Video on Google Read Cobo’s original post… or, for my quick-and-dirty translation of his thoughts from Spanish: “Building on the past” video by Justin Cone for the Moving Images [...]

Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), the lawmaker behind the pork-barrel Bridge to Nowhere and an infamous revelation that the Internet is constructed of a series of tubes is at it again. This time, he wants to ban Wikipedia at schools that receive federal funding. From Computerworld: Early in January, Stevens introduced Senate bill 49, which among [...]

Google hosts a “Gapminder” tool that uses Flash technology to turn otherwise tedious or boring data into readable, interactive animations. Gapminder is a foundation based in Stockholm, Sweden. Funding has been mainly by grants from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, and the data presented are gathered in collaboration with the United Nations Statistic Division. [...]

I’ve refrained from commenting on politics up to now, but this is too absurd to be ignored any longer. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising [...]