The FBI is recommending that we stop using text messages. After last week’s reports that Chinese hackers have infiltrated at least eight American telecommunications companies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued recommendations to telcoms to help them secure their infrastructures. For the rest of us, the FBI “warned iPhone and Android users to stop texting and to use an encrypted messaging platform instead.” According … Continue reading Sorta Secure
When I was in school, we weren’t allowed to use calculators. We did our calculations by hand. That included long division, and deriving square roots, and looking up logarithms and trig functions in computation tables. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that my physics teacher said, “you know, you could just use a calculator and save yourself a lot of time.” By … Continue reading Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand
I was in the superintendent’s office last week refining a plan for technology and media in our schools. We had a complicated diagram with circles and arrows and boxes all over it. It started with the district’s strategic vision, and specifically the goals of promoting next generation skills, integrating state of the art technology, and offering quality program options that include STEM. It included the technology … Continue reading Why?
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