Technology can solve problems. Technology can also create
problems or reveal existing situations that have nothing to do
with the tool used to reveal structural faults. The way we
perceived our lives and what we believe to be important is
changing; Can you feel the tremors of change? A technological
change can be positive and possibly negative. For my jumping off
point I started with Lisa Nielsen's blog The Innovative
Educator. Lisa's blog is filled with great educational ideas,
technology, concepts and resources, some of them free. It occurs
to me that there would be a lot of schools and school districts
that would have no concept of what Lisa is talking about. More
to the point, there isn't money to implement five percent of the
least expensive ideas she is bring forth. Free E-Textbooks -
What’s Not To Like? Let me give you an example of my concern. I
heard a broadcast on NPR about California approving 10
electronic math and science textbooks. The textbooks are free.
Got 30 kids in a class that need textboo