When I started thinking about the use of the Internet, I remembered all of the people who could not read who asked me to teach them to read when they found out I was a teacher. That was many years ago and reading literacy is still a problem. Now I have a new way of thinking, there needs to be more than just reading literacy, I believe digital literacy is a civil rights issue. The headline here talks about the urban poor but it is more than just the urban poor who are worried. See … [Read more...]
CyberEducation in Inclusive Ways …. Breaking the Knowledge Divide, Creating Collaborative Knowledgenetworks
Some of us as pioneers in STEM and in technology, have been working in computer learning and use of technology so long that we had begun to think that change would never happen. Working in minority areas we are always running to catch up. I was participating in technology well enough to be on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. We helped to frame the vision of what technology would be in the United States. We wrote documents and shared methodology. But change was slow in … [Read more...]
New Digital Divide? Well Yes and No, Depends on Whether You Have Broadband
In the New York Times there was a wonderful post on the New Digital Divide. I hope you have read it It is here for your reference. When I "stump speech" in the places of need, of distance, of lack of professional development, of unsupported technology, of NCLB caused science deprivation this might help. Maybe. The Digital Divide will always be, because of the advances of technology. That means I realize that there is the forward advance of technology and we are always trying to … [Read more...]
Transforming Education, Broadening Engagement , Supercomputing and K-12 Mentors
I should be in bed. I am tired. I am at the Seattle Supercomputing Conference, and in the few days I have been here my mind has been challenged to think, stretch, create and expand my ideas on education. It it not my first time at the conference. As I continue to attend, I gather friends with benefits who have the same mission of changing the world and sharing their expertise. I have learned so much, I had to think how to share. Look here at the conference site and examine … [Read more...]
Thinking About Online Education – And Learning to Make a Difference
Some of my most ardent supporters Online are teachers from far and distant regions, well in the world, and from those who have some kind of connection to the Internet. Most of them are on Facebook for the moment. I am taking a Moodle Boot Camp to share, experience, understand and be able to do online well. I have done Blackboard back in the day when Paul Resta, Ray Rose and I all met at CILT.org. The experience gave me some great friends. I think that online can help solve the digital equity … [Read more...]
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