Seems like the last two years have been too much reality and not enough dreaming. I see cool things all around, EEEPC, N800 tablets, inexpensive science probes, Moodle, gmail for schools ...
However, most technicians with school districts just think inside the box. What's worse is they force the rest of us too. Why not try to do a whole lab in linux? Why not try a cart of EEEPCs instead of full size monsters? Why not dump exchange for gmail or some other free but amazing product?
I don't know. It just might be time to go looking for another school board. I mean, come on. My school district is still running like we are all on Novel or Win NT. We're not. Labs could be on the way out. Students are going to increasingly bring in their own ways to connect. Content needs to move online, not sit in file shares or home directories. We need to get to portfolios, school online centers, and beyond. We don't need to "catch up", we need to lead.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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You can blame evolution. We're not here today because our ancestors experimented with eating all the different colored berries and lived. No. We're here because they let the other guy experiment, then watched him writhe in pain before he died. So our brains are hard wired to find the thing that works and then stay with it for the rest of our days.
No doubt, yet did that guy eating the berry have more fun? What's more, if evolution is true then someone at some time always does do something new, and it's advantageous.
Indeed that's what I'm arguing for. We're never going to find an improvement if we only do the same old thing.
Sure some trials will end in screaming pain, but some will not. Why not let the guy try the berry? It just might be the best food source yet.
Hey, I'm with you 100%, as in three plus years using Linux and *only* Linux 100%. I was just trying to explain the herd mentality that keeps Microsoft rolling in dough. People say it's going to be a long hard road for Linux acceptance. Kind of like it's been for the last 15 years. But that long gradual slope of acceptance defies past behavior. New trends, products or paradigms don't go from 0 to 100 in a gradual slope. They get to a point, then Steve Ballmer sneezes in his office and the next thing you know MSFT is floating around $4. It will be fun to watch.
Oh, I've eaten enough of the "other" berries to get a good appreciation something stable to the point of boring. That's why I use Linux, too much excitement with Windows.
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