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Nostalgic Optimism

13 Oct 20218 Oct 2021 John Schinker

I’m pretty old. I was thinking about my first job interview. It was 1993. I was asked what I thought about Microsoft Windows. I told them it wasn’t a real operating system. It was just a shell that sat on … Continue reading Nostalgic Optimism

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How to Teach Online, Part 2

30 Apr 202029 Apr 2020 John Schinker

As I was writing the first part of this, I got to the section on keeping instruction brief and realized I wasn’t doing a very good job of that. So we took a little break. We were talking about how … Continue reading How to Teach Online, Part 2

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How to Teach Online, Part 1

29 Apr 2020 John Schinker

Years ago, I asked one of my high school teachers if he would consider teaching a course online. “Why would I want to do that?” he asked. “I come to work because I love being around kids. Online classes would … Continue reading How to Teach Online, Part 1

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The Opportunity of Crisis

18 Mar 2020 John Schinker

What an unsettling time. In a couple weeks, our world has dramatically shifted. It’s like 9/11. It’s like JFK. It’s not, really. Those were sudden national tragedies when the world changed in an instant. This is slower. Our world changed … Continue reading The Opportunity of Crisis

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Beliefs

19 Nov 201927 Dec 2020 John Schinker

When I was 25, I believed that the anonymity of online discussions would allow the exchange of ideas without prejudice, and raise the level of human discourse. I’d been communicating online for five or six years. The web was brand … Continue reading Beliefs

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Facts and Feelings

14 Aug 201614 Aug 2016 John Schinker

We are living in an age when information is no longer scarce. The Internet gave everyone access to the information. It was sold to us as an information superhighway. Think of all of the wonderful resources you have right at … Continue reading Facts and Feelings

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Coding != Career

9 Nov 20157 Feb 2021 John Schinker

Thirty years ago, when computers were still new, we didn’t know what to do with them. There was a sense — in that half generation between the widespread availability of computers and the advent of the Internet age — that … Continue reading Coding != Career

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Address Space

30 Sep 20157 Feb 2021 John Schinker

One of the problems faced by the designers of the Internet was the ability for computers to find one another. If a global network of computers were to function in a decentralized way, there needed to be a way for … Continue reading Address Space

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  1. John Schinker on Did I Really Write This?15 Dec 2022

    Here's what ChatGPT generated: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION? The role of technology in education is to…

  2. doowopcity on Ain’t That America?5 Jul 2022

    The last two paragraphs are the opposite of what's happening. In the last three decades, we STOPPED teaching students to…

  3. Ryan Collins (@mr_rcollins) on Unzoomed21 Feb 2022

    The world is moving to remote work, and if we are not preparing our students to be able to communicate,…

  4. Dr. Nina on What Do Grades Mean?29 Jan 2022

    Excellent article! This is so true and so very, very sad: "We have sacrificed fostering a love of learning for…

  5. cathyroderick on Freedom1 Sep 2021

    Perfectly said, as usual.

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