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26 Jul 09

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Both men point to the idea that we're moving from a knowledge economy to a search economy
Education still seems to define knowing as more important than being able to find, yet which do you do more of in your work? And what's wrong with crimping a paragraph here or there from Cringely if it shows you understand the topic?

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24 Jan 09

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23 Jan 09

Peter Hess

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15 Jan 09

Ian Hecht

Interesting article on how technology will kill schools as we know them. This view has been espoused elsewhere, with a view to recreate master-teacher schools where students who are all interested in the same thing hire an instructor for a term, in essence creating their own school.

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14 Jan 09

James Schirmer

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06 Aug 08

Gene Roche

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18 Jun 08

Tanny Tan

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waves of technological innovation take approximately 30 years - one human
generation - to be completely absorbed by our culture.
Technologies allow us to overcome limitations of time, distance, and physical
capability, but they only empower us when they can be gracefully used by large,
productive segments of our society.
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- we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and
  communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered
  they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us
  tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal.
- we're moving from a knowledge economy to a search economy, from a kingdom of
  static values to those that are dynamic
- This is, of course, a huge threat to the education establishment, which tends to
  have a very deterministic view of how knowledge and accomplishment are obtained
  - a view that doesn't work well in the search economy
- book readers are older. Young readers graze. They search

17 Jun 08

Nicole Ryan

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10 Jun 08

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08 May 08

Howard Rheingold

we've reached point in (disparate) cultural adaptation to ICT that technical generations are so empowered they are ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

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30 Apr 08

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18 Apr 08

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06 Apr 08

Janice Stearns

Great article on the influence of technology in education and eleswhere

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05 Apr 08

Erin Remple

the clash between those who grew up with computers and those who didn't in

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03 Apr 08

glen gatin

Andy Hertzfeld said Google is the best tool for an aging programmer because it remembers when we cannot. Dave Winer, back in 1996, came to the conclusion that it was better to bookmark information than to cut and paste it. I'm sure today Dave wouldn't bother with the bookmark and would simply search from scratch to get the most relevant result.

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we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of

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Cheri Toledo

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we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
in the last five years more and more technical resources have been turned to how to keep technology OUT of our schools.
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- we're moving from a knowledge economy to a search economy
- At the same time K-12 educators are being pulled back by No Child Left Behind, they are being pulled forward (they probably see it as pulled askew) by kids abetted by their high-tech Generation Y (yes, we're getting well into Y) parents who are using their Ward Cleaver power not to maintain the status quo but to challenge it.

01 Apr 08

Art Gelwicks

Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

I came to this conclusion recently while attending Brainstorm 2008, a delightful conference for computer people in K-12 schools throughout Wisconsin. They didn't hold breakout sessions on technology battles or tactics, but the idea was in the air. These people were under siege.

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Viv Waller

claims that we don't need knowledge anymore - just how to find things

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31 Mar 08

Jess McCulloch

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The key word here is "empowerment." Technologies allow us to overcome limitations of time, distance, and physical capability, but they only empower us when they can be gracefully used by large, productive segments of our society. The telephone was empowering when we all finally got it. Now it is the Internet and digital communications.

30 Mar 08

Maureen Tumenas

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the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

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Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
The University of Phoenix is supposedly preparing a complete middle and high school online curriculum available anywhere in the world.

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There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us
haven't yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology,
a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens
venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people
think of as their very way of life. It is a war that will ultimately and
inevitably change us all, no going back. The early battles are being fought in
our schools. And I already know who the winners will be.

Mario A Núñez

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The key word here is "empowerment." Technologies allow us to overcome limitations of time, distance, and physical capability, but they only empower us when they can be gracefully used by large, productive segments of our society. The telephone was empowering when we all finally got it. Now it is the Internet and digital communications.
Each new technology is difficult for the older generation and easy for the younger, which explains why I am a PC master but a texting idiot. I'm just too damned old.
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- Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

Tim Lauer

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29 Mar 08

Vahid Masrour

very interesting piece from a great blog.

Society is changing beause digital technology is now mature enough in everybody's mind to carry out changes that were unithinkable before.

30 years is what it takes to get those changes due to technology (i'd like to see a source for that assertion).

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28 Mar 08

mezzo toscano

Andy Hertzfeld said Google is the best tool for an aging programmer because it remembers when we cannot. Dave Winer, back in 1996, came to the conclusion that it was better to bookmark information than to cut and paste it. I'm sure today Dave wouldn't bother with the bookmark and would simply search from scratch to get the most relevant result. Both men point to the idea that we're moving from a knowledge economy to a search economy, from a kingdom of static values to those that are dynamic. Education still seems to define knowing as more important than being able to find, yet which do you do more of in your work? And what's wrong with crimping a paragraph here or there from Cringely if it shows you understand the topic?

This is, of course, a huge threat to the education establishment, which tends to have a very deterministic view of how knowledge and accomplishment are obtained - a view that doesn't work well in the search economy. At the same time K-12 educators are being pulled back by No Child Left Behind, they are being pulled forward (they probably see it as pulled askew) by kids abetted by their high-tech Generation Y (yes, we're getting well into Y) parents who are using their Ward Cleaver power not to maintain the status quo but to challenge it.

This is an unstable system. Homeschooling, charter schools, these things didn't even exist when I was a kid, but they are everywhere now. There's only one thing missing to keep the whole system from falling apart - ISO certification.

I've written about this for years and nobody ever paid attention, but ISO certification is what destroyed the U.S. manufacturing economy. With ISO 9000 there was suddenly a way to claim with some justification that a factory in Malaysia was precisely comparable to an IBM plant on the Hudson. Prior to then it was all based on reputation, not statistics. And now that IBM plant is gone.

Well reputation still holds in education, though its grip is weakening. I know kids from good families who left high school early with a GED because

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27 Mar 08

Wesley Fryer

March 2008 article about school change and technology

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25 Mar 08

Derek Brandow

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It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology.
The early battles are being fought in our schools.
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- waves of technological innovation take approximately 30 years - one human generation - to be completely absorbed by our culture. That's 30 years to become an overnight sensation, 30 years to finally settle into the form most useful to society, 30 years to change the game.
- Let's be clear about what we're measuring here. It has very little to do with specific technologies and everything to do with our adaptation to technology as a culture.
- Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
- in the last five years more and more technical resources have been turned to how to keep technology OUT of our schools. Keeping kids from instant messaging, then text messaging or using their phones in class is a big issue as is how to minimize plagiarism from the Internet. These defensive measures are based on the idea that unbound use of these communication and information technologies is bad, that it keeps students from learning what they must, and hurts their ability to later succeed as adults.
  
  But does it?
- This is, of course, a huge threat to the education establishment, which tends to have a very deterministic view of how knowledge and accomplishment are obtained - a view that doesn't work well in the search economy
- Well reputation still holds in education, though its grip is weakening. I know kids from good families who left high school early with a GED because they were bored or wanted to enter college early. Maybe college is next.
- Charleston, SC where the public schools are atrocious despite spending an average of $16,000 per student each year. Why shouldn't I keep my kids at home and online, demanding that the city pay for it?
  
  Because that's not the way we do it, that's why.
  
  Well times are changing.

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24 Mar 08

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jason: ...the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

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jason: ...the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

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Clarence Smith, Jr.

Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready

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There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven't yet notice.
There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven't yet notice.
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- There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven't yet notice.

Lennie Symes

Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready

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Technology is beginning to assail the underlying concepts of our educational system - a system that's huge and rich and so far fairly immune to economic influence.

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23 Mar 08

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22 Mar 08

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"the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools." Edit: MORE THAN READY.

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Waves of technology innovation take 30 years - one human generation - to be completely absorbed by our culture. That's 30 years to become an overnight sensation, 30 years to finally settle into the form most useful to society, 30 years to change the game.

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