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Wow. Conservative American history professor contests the fact that he didn’t make the short list for a job at the University of Iowa. The only reason he didn’t, he presumes, is because he’s a Republican. Students, parents, alumni, taxpayers, and politicians should pressure the University of Iowa’s administration to enforce the university’s non-discrimination policies, and [...]

The One Laptop per Child program is creating a lot of conversation and consternation at the MLearn conference. There have been an interesting series of (still hopeful) criticisms of it, particularly from the delegates from South Africa. The stunning comment that threw me into a whole new mind set was this: “If you give children [...]

I’m blogging from the MLearn conference in Banff, Alberta. Things are moving very fast, so I’m grabbing what time I can to process the sessions and blog about them. The keynote this morning was by Mary Lou Jepson of the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, nurtured, of course, by the