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Monthly Archives July 2005

Keyboarding

I am going to try and sneak this post past my wife. She gets upset every time I have something to say about keyboarding. She is not against keyboarding. Her position is pragmatic. She works in schools and nearly all schools have limited technology resources. She feels keyboarding instruction and related drills simply eat up [...]

Posted 29 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

New PEW Internet Report

A new report from the PEW Internet and American Life Project (Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation) concludes that adolescent use of the Internet continues to rise. IM is possibly the area of heavy use that most drastically differentiates adolescent and adult users. Some data were [...]

Posted 27 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Bill Gates / Maria Klawe On Computer Science

The Microsoft Research Summit may not be of great interest to educators, but some presentations are worth a listen (link to Gates and Klawe). The discussion of what appears to be a declining interest in computer science research and a decline in interest in computer science (particularly among women) are relevant to education and the [...]

Posted 26 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Friedman at MIT

I have written before about Friedman’s book “The World is Flat”. I think Friedman’s take on education within an international context should be considered by politicians and educators. MIT streams a presentation by Friedman that is very interesting. MITworld provides access – enter “World is Flat” in the video finder. [Minnesota NPR has an earlier [...]

Posted 25 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

TWiT Blog

One of my favorite tech sources used to be TechTV. As things seem to go in the world of business, the TechTV programming was purchased by G4TV (a gamers’ channel) and some of my favorite hosts (Leo LaPorte) disappeared (previous post). I have found Leo and the boys (Patrick, et al) again via blogs and [...]

Posted 24 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Alaska Trip – Conclusion

Note: This piece is not intended to be consistent with the theme of this blog. The following comments provide a summary of our Alaska trip. In this case, I am using my blog as a personal record and an access point for those who may find our travels of some interest. My trips do not [...]

Posted 23 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Vacation – continued

I do read on vacation. One book for this trip is titled Teachers Have It Easy (subtitle – The big sacrifices and small salaries of America’s teachers). I am not finished yet, but the book provides an interesting analysis of the reasons educators receive such low compensation and the consequences to the productivity of the [...]

Posted 12 July 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °