Lyn Carlisle, a teacher at my son’s high school, pointed me to this Friedman article, Calling All Luddites. All I can add is “Right on!”, and “hope we aren’t too late!”
Friedman opens with:
I’ve been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana’s. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have cellphone service as good as Japan’s, provided Japan agrees not to forge ahead on wireless technology. My campaign bumper sticker: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
He goes states a little later:
…The world is moving to an Internet-based platform for commerce, education, innovation and entertainment. Wealth and productivity will go to those countries or companies that get more of their innovators, educators, students, workers and suppliers connected to this platform via computers, phones and P.D.A.’s.
What I find most interesting is questions like, “What does a classroom look like, that connects it’s students and teachers to fully digital and networked content?”
Ideas?