March 2010
4 posts
For all the talk about the digital divide...
For all the talk about the digital divide, a lot of educators work hard to keep computers out of the classroom at an early age, to help kids develop skills without them.
This is a topic we think about a lot in my home. We have a 9-year-old son who uses his computer for all kinds of stuff — games and sport fantasy leagues, yes, but also reading the news and looking up whatever his brain latches...
Water Reminder (my first StickyBits app)
When I registered last week at SXSW, the most intriguing item I found in the customary goodie bag o’ shwag I was given was a postcard from a startup called StickyBits attached to a stack of barcode stickers.
Bar code scanning and object hyperlinking aren’t new ideas. Just as microblogging wasn’t by any measure a new idea when Twitter was created. But what instantly intrigued...
StalkBox Wins a Droid at the SXSW Google Hackathon...
StalkBox, my Startup Bus project with @broadcrawford, was a featured project at the SXSW Google Hackathon. The idea was simple enough, and relevant to the VIP-filled SXSW environment: real-time celebrity maps. If there’s a half dozen parties to choose from, see where the celebs are going to be before you make your choice.
I guess the Google judges liked our simple pitch, because we won...
Teachers counter education reform ideas on tests,... →
ericmortensen:
(via jacobjoaquin)
This is a big deal. Scholastic and The Gates Foundation surveyed a truly massive number of teachers. The resulting mass of data paints a picture that simply wasn’t possible to paint before.
•Only 10% say tenure — a kind of job-for-life security based on a few years of satisfactory job evaluations — is a “very accurate” indicator of teacher quality; •71% say...