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March 24, 1999
Conference Notes
During the last week in February I attended the fourth annual Consortium for School Networking conference here in Washington. For the first time in a while I had the stressful distinction of presenting twice in less than 24 hours. On the first evening of the conference, I was a respondent for a dinner banquet debate on the question, "Should text books replaced by laptops?" Dr. Jack Christie of the Texas Board of Education (pro laptops) duked it out with edtech skeptic William Rukeyser (anti laptops, sort of). I took the position that the debate was based on the wrong question, and instead we should be asking, "In what context should laptops be used over textbooks." I wasn't booed or hissed at, so on the whole I felt pretty good about my three minutes of banquet rhetoric.The next day I presented a lunchtime speech on DTV and Education. The speech was essentially the same speech I gave at Tel-Ed in October, so if you'd like to read it, you can find it online.
Posted by acarvin at March 24, 1999 4:06 PM
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