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This was a presentation to the National Science Board of the US , at the NSF.( National Science Foundation


Though many current Federal initiatives focus on raising the base-line performance of all students, very few focus on the educational needs of our Nation's highly talented and/or highly motivated students. If properly identified and developed through the education system, these students have the extraordinary potential to become future science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM)… Continue

I am sure I was a total pain at the Monterrey Summit because every time someone blamed a teacher I talked back. Teachers do not build the infrastructure. Teachers do not on their own usually decide curriculum. Ministers of education make the big decisions even here. Professional Development is usually a terrible waste of time as there are in house people who do the developing. Who is going to tell them the truth and survive with their job. So I hope you will read, re-read and think about this ar… Continue

We have made some progress in the education section here in Monterrey,Mexico. I don't have time to post it now.
The event is on line. Lots of meetings, and lots of valuable networking. Interesting is that lots of the talk is that teachers were responsible for the problem, but I fought back with the fact that the digital divide, the information divide, the infrastructure divide, the economic divide, the cultural divide, the differences in culture. I did not let anyone get away with blaming the te… Continue

COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Building an Open Cloud
Michael R. Nelson
Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.


E-mail: mnelson@pobox.com
The Internet is entering an exciting, third phase, as important as its second phase, the World Wide Web. Thanks to paradigms for distributed computing such as Web 2.0, Web Services, and Software as a Service, the Internet is becoming a platform for computing as well as communications. This new platform, the Cloud (… Continue

We have a new Initiative called engaging the Digital Generation that was introduced to America by Dr. Milton Chen, profiles and highlights from multimedia profiles of 10 your people who use digital media for learning and socializing , giving educators insights into new strategies for engagement.

Teaching our children is surely one of humanity's earliest and most fundamental pursuits, and today it's fair to say that education, not Esperanto, is the universal language. We educate for various reas… Continue