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The Fourth Question
Early in my consulting in the early 1990s I came up with four basic questions that schools had to struggle with as they integrated technology. I think they are still the ones to ask today, even though the answers and issues now vary. The four questions Like a lot of the early tech people in →
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Comment Victory #1
As I start to describe the process of evolution of teacher comments, I need to explain the setting. I was not a prep school kid and I ended up at Loomis Chaffee almost by chance. I could not have had better luck. My teaching colleagues and the administration were some of the most talented, generous, →
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Called to the Principal’s Office
After working with the architects, we built the computer center and classes started bringing their students there and lots of students came in during free periods to write papers or do email. We tried hard to keep games off the computers. The school required every student to have a “work job” to contribute to the →
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REAL MEN
March 19, 2024 They say that “Real men don’t eat quiche”. There was a real cultural war going on in the early days of personal computers. Apple had become a symbol for fun, revolution, innovation, and fighting the establishment. IBM, PCs, and Microsoft were for REAL MEN. Apple computer was considered a fad, a kid’s →
Tales from the Tech Trail 