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The Cursive Handwriting Debate

…which, in my opinion, is really a variation of the argument “I learned this when I was in school and I turned out fine.” North Carolina may be in the process of passing a bill (called “Back to the Basics”) that would mandate mastery of cursive by the 5th grade and memorization of time tables. [...]

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School Domain Names

For a significant portion of time, school districts in United States lived with crazy domain names. For example, Hamilton City used to have the following domain name: http://hcs.k12.0h.us The reasons for this (I think) were: This domain was free (free is always considered good) In geeky, folder, index engineering minds this naming convention made a [...]

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Verge, Leap Motion, and Yes, I Want One

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Technology Trends of the Future

Today I meet with (possible) future education students to talk about technology trends in education. I have a number of posts that that break this presentation into a narrative, but I’m not quite satisfied enough with them to go live. That said, here’s the running presentation for students.

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