will find links to ITHS scholars and MBHS scholars and
even to those schools in Queens NY.
tednellen
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Joseph Beckmann wrote:
You've hit a topic that is still too largely ignored. Technology
promises to realize the social liberal vision of transparent
government, policy
Beware the uniquely Liberal concept of ownership. For John Stuart Mill,
ownership meant title and control. For many others it merely means taking
responsibility, as in owning up to an act or decision. In the first sense,
assuredly, many techno-literates do not own computers but use them in common
While Ms. Coombs is quite right that education as we know it requires a
teacher, her argument is an excellent example of the problems faced by
professional educators. She raises a false premise that technology and
teaching are somehow alternatives, and the quality of one affects the
quality - or
together as warm and
intimate human community for a good part of the school day, and supplement
those learnings with those specialties and programs and possibilities that
the computer can bring in from the nation and around the world.
Joseph Beckmann says the only way to benefit from technology
the skills and knowledge that are not already within it.
Steve Eskow
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From: Joseph Beckmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 5:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group'
Subject: RE: [DDN] personal vis
Again, I can agree on those themes of size, with some nuances. First, the
size of institutions in any culture are culturally derived - 400 kids in a
school in New York city is very small, in Idaho may be large, and in Sri
Lanka may be comprehensive. Many US small schools are Early College High
It's remarkable how little is known about the history of gas and water
socialism which is both the inspiration and the rationale of municipal
broadband. The value of a universal system vs. the selective systems we now
have (regardless of whether they are selective by price, by financial value
to
Charlie,
What conceivable public purpose advantage does a profit centered information
delivery service serve? Just as the USPS competes, now with very minor tax
support, while guaranteeing universal access, there is no conceivable
argument against a public ISP and only the most venal
There's an excellent article in this month's EduTopia about this - the lack
of a CMS appropriate to a good school website, and the failure of most
schools to conceive a web page that is anything other than a school
analogue: a place where kids wander from room to room with little purpose
other
Micropayments cover microbills and micromeals and microcars. And all those
lovely payments add up to the oh so lovely standard of living in rural India
or, perhaps, a phonebased sweatshop in Shanghai. It's all the more
intriguing when places like the Berkman Center hesitate to put such talks on
The Google satellite maps are worldwide. I've done Tajikistan and that's a
lot more obscure than Baja.
Joe
Ps. Just do it. Google's a live site you know.
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:57
Deborah and others,
Google Earth is unusual in that it builds geographic information systems
development from satellite images, and kids look down the street to see if a
car is at their girlfriend's house before calling. Unfortunately, it usually
takes a week or so for them to realize that it's
It is absolutely embarrassing that teachers should hesitate to encourage ANY
source, as long as they recognize that multiple sources are ALWAYS critical
to verification. And it is typical of lazy thinking and lazy teaching to
presume that, because Wikipedia - or ANYTHING on the net - might be less
When I was in a flashy high school last month in Marin County I showed off
the last version of Google Earth (called Keyhole) to a bunch of high school
kids who fobbed it off with several alternate NASA sites as much better,
cheaper, and faster. Ask a kid.
Joe
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As an instructor at Dillard University in 1968, at the peak of Civil Rights,
even then New Orleans was almost pre-civil war. The anger in the rest of the
country had just begun to dribble into a culture where the largest
department store, Maison Blanche, had only recently converted it's colored
Thirty years ago when I worked at EDC our overhead (indirect cost) rate was
something like 100% of all direct labor costs. I wonder if that's changed,
or if it varies for this project. It would be nice to know that in advance
of martialling volunteers, since, if it's high, perhaps another
and online communities
Andy Carvin
EDC Center for Media Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.andycarvin.com
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From: Joseph Beckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:03:07 -0400
Subject: RE: [DDN] Cedar Pruitt's departure from
Don't ignore that that's the whole point of exclusive think tank groupings
- to vet the questions well ahead of time, and cannon fodder is just what
they don't want to deal with.
OTOH, they don't deal with much as long as they vet the most important
questions, and then they, and we, wonder why
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