Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:
Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. It’s a documentary including personal [...]
Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be
One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of [...]
Education Reform At Last?
“An Inconvenient Truth” represented a major shift in this country’s thinking about global warming.That documentary took climate change from a niche concern to one of the pillars of the green movement (which, incidentally, has subsumed the environmental…
Gone Google or Google Gone?
Google launched their Google Apps campaign called Gone Google with so much fanfare. Now there seems to be some backlash against their offering. There were some rumors that Yale is delaying the switch to Google Apps due to security concerns and a Techcrunch post about concerns raised by City of Los Angeles bureaucrats about Google Apps deployment. [...]
Promiscuous online culture changing social interactions
If you do not need O’Reilly Radar – you might want to subscribe. This morning O’Reilly Radar was bringing up the idea of how social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed and others are changing not just how we hire,
How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur
I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes? To what? I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch! Lowering? And then it’s still $1,000? [...]
The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)
“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. university in math or science” (Thomas Friedman) I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note [...]
Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers
Information Security people in companies worldwide are reeling this morning with the news of just how large the Google break in was, and the sheer number of company’s and computers compromised in the latest round of attacks. Nothing says “Information Security Failed” more than this simple number, 2,500 companies, 75,000 computers and counting, and hundreds [...]
Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better [...]
Regenerated Content Streams and Tuning Out
Louis Gray touches on a great point over on his blog today about how information is regenerated not just by the people who follow us, but by the popularity that we carry. I want to focus on one portion of this because it touches back to many of the issues we face not just with [...]
Welcome Computer Engineer Barbie
In an idea that is on the order of “about time”, Mattel introduced Computer Engineer Barbie on the 12th of February 2010. Let us hope that this helps solve part of the problem with women and girls going into Computer Science. The problem is solvable, it will just take the concerted efforts of parents and [...]
IBM Targets College Students With Free Cloud Offerings But ….
Image via CrunchBase College students are always attractive targets for software vendors. Whether it is the effective targeting of college students in the desktop era by Microsoft or Google’s attempt to enter the market in this cloud era through their #gonegoogle campaign, there is no denying that software vendors find the route attractive from a [...]
Cloud Camp Seattle 03 Feb 2010
Sometimes it is just best to go to camp, and Seattle is having Cloud Camp, or an “Unmeeting” of people to discuss the problems and issues in cloud computing. We will be posting gallery pictures, but you can also follow us on FriendFeed/techwag tonight if you want near real time information on the event. 5:58 [...]
Use Social Networking to find your next job and love it
“Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market”. – @susanireland The attached file is Using social networking to find your next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and other [...]
Why I need a tablet and so do my students
With all the hype over do we or do we not need a tablet computer, I keep on thinking of my students and where I want to take educational technology in the next 10 years. While I am in a fortunate position to “change the world” when it comes to education, I am also in [...]
