The paradigm of a teacher standing in front of a classroom at a chalkboard is a relict of the past. A great tool circa “Little House on the Prairie,” the blackboard should go the same way as the one-room school house. More pay alone, with insufficient merit requirements, does not improve schools. A better solution is found in merit pay, technology integration and school choice.
5 Minute Book Review: “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
August 15, 2012 by
Isaacson’s biography is fascinating, covering warts and and moles along with his contributions and genius. With direct access to Jobs, his associates, rivals, and family, it is an incomparable work that will be the defining biography for decades to come.
I suppose there are a lot of ways to look at Steve Jobs. However you view him, though, it’s hard to dispute his success in technology, design, and animation. Not quite an inventor or engineer, Jobs thought himself more an artist, and perhaps he was. He had an attention to detail and a vision of minimalism that allowed him to build great products that changed how we compute, listen to music, and make purchases, to say nothing of his contributions to the digital animation industry with Pixar. [cont…]
The death of boredom, the doom of creativity, and the fall of Western Civilization.
August 22, 2011 by
Do you know what America’s problem is? No, it’s not the economy. It’s not even the politicians. No, it’s something worse. It’s your iPhone/Android. And your iPad. And your Kindle. And every other gadget that’s keeping you from getting bored. According to Scott Adams, America’s problem isn’t the economy: it’s that we don’t get bored, […]
Are you buying an iPad?
April 6, 2010 by
With the advent, and hype, tied to the iPad, I can’t help but take a foray into my favorite topic that is only ancillary to the law itself, if at all: books. I love them. I love to hold them while I read them. I love to make notations in the margins or underline an especially thought-provoking […]
“Live Free, or Die Hard,” or Big Brother is watching? The Brave New World of cell phone tapping. PART I
February 16, 2010 by
Among the coolest of gadgets are those which use an internal GPS device to tell you where you are on the map. I use one in my phone and, thanks to an app from Google that I downloaded for free, it allows me to pinpoint my location, pin it on a map, and plot out […]
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