Random Ramblings

Robeson County, North Carolina Technology Showcase

Here I am, listening to David Warlick’s keynote on Flat Classrooms.  Do you think I should heckle him from the audience )

• Suriawang Dapto – David’s second life avatar
• Handouts
•  2003 we added 5 exabytes of new information
  • only 0.01% of that information is printed
• coolest newest device – GPS toe ring (I think I could manage to stay on track with that)
• eliminate obsolete technology leaves you with nothing which is what we know of what the future holds
• what do kids need to be learning today? How to teach themselves
• If Wal-mart was a country, it would bow be China’s 8th largest trading partner
• UPS ships 13.5 million packages a day – at any given moment, 2% of the world’s GDP is in the back of a UPS delivery truck?
• in 2003 Chinese students graduating with engineering degrees represented 46% of all gaduates – in the US it was only 5%
• Richard Florida – lose 500,00 jobs
• kids today were born after the Reagan era, Persian Gulf War, the walkman
• kids today have never played pac man or pong, listened to an 8-track, purchased a vinyl album, seen a tv with less than 100 channels
• Vinod Khosia founding CEO of Sun Microsystems
  • today’s children believe that “everything is clickable, even their parents.”
• we need to teach the kids when it’s appropriate to write in proper English
• wombat: waste of money brain and time
• roller coaster tycoon – build a roller coaster
• we see information as a product – the kids see information as a raw material
• Vinod Khosia
  • content today is the dominant thing.  but, one thing that I can say is that … it is going to be the company that can grow and maintain
• werenotafraid.com  blog set up after the London bombing – mostly pictures – great  blog!!

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