Technology in Education

I’ve been spending some time in Change.gov during this transition.  I am amazed at the speed and transparency of all this.  They are using a Google Moderator type function to have a discussion.  600,000 votes from 100,000 people rank the top questions.  That very day the Obama team prepare a YouTube video answering the question.

Now, I don’t know if most of the people on these sites are loyal “Blues” or “Reds”.  But we should entertain the thought that people from around the world are part of this community.  If nothing else it has a very democratic (small d!) feel to it.

I find it fascinating that the government is leading this.  What if General Motors or Fannie Mae (or the school where I work for that matter) had operated the same way?

Barack Obama is using Creative Commons license.  I have been teaching this, but it is not common knowledge that it exists (10% of teachers use it??).  This will help.

Cool sites:

Museum Box

Time Rime

Wordle