Monday, February 4, 2002

Wired: John Bailey, former Directory of Educational Technology at Penn, named to head Office of Educational Technology. 10:12:58 PM     NPR ran a nice piece tonight about how isolating teaching can be. There's very little time in the day to interact with your peers. This isolation is also one reason why designing technologies for schools is, in some ways, harder than designing technologies for business settings. Educational technology has to be robust and easy to use, because there's rarely an IT department to install software and handle troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is particularly problematic because it happens in real time -- kids are waiting while you try to figure out what's wrong, and you can't turn around and ask a co-worker for help. 7:06:51 PM     NY Times: Chips speeds will continue to accelerate, possibly even outpacing Moore's Law. Which means the rate of computing obsolesence will continue to increase as well, likely keeping schools and non-profits firmly in the trailing edge of technological 'progress'. 11:58:37 AM

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