The day 2011-09-08 on @techczech

  • Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg's e-book loving founder, passes away http://ow.ly/6pms0 #
  • Just had a chat with an enthusiastic non-techie #Android switcher who ditched #iPhone after Bonjour restarted her machine. #itunesisavirus #
  • @xtalkprogrammer No doubt. Not even western. School bus is a US-based metaphors. School buses are rare even in UK. in reply to xtalkprogrammer #
  • IT support should be locally embedded in large organizations-not centralised. From small inefficiencies can arise great innovations. #edtech #
  • I've been boycotting ebooks more expensive than print for a year. "on boycotting ebooks" http://ow.ly/6oFNH #ebookboycott #
  • @xtalkprogrammer The school bus is just a metaphor. Getting students to learning is more important than the technology used for learning. in reply to xtalkprogrammer #
  • Enjoyed #altc2011 even though I couldn't afford to attend. Technology can contribute to equality in many small ways. Let's see them add up. #
  • RT @aidej: ALT-C 2012: 'A confrontation with reality' #altc2011 #
  • JFK at #altc2011 "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie…but the myth…" < Learning technologies have many such enemies! #
  • "If CDs are an inefficient & expensive way for distributing music, what about teachers and learning?" #altc2011 #edchat < Good question #
  • It is easy to forget that learning technologies have a dimension of labor, power and political exploitation. Not just learning. #altc2011 #
  • RT @sarahhorrigan: In the long run who benefits and who loses? Answers for tech are pretty sobering. #altc2011 #
  • More profound than it may seem: "The only piece of educational technology known to work for sure is the school bus" #altc2011 #edchat #
  • No Language Legacy: Where's The Sept. 11 Vocab? : NPR http://ow.ly/6ou3j #

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