Off the Rails?

Compelling thoughts:

http://futureoftheinternet.org/

Comments

Sally Mander's Corner said…
Wow Victoria. I was just supposed to leave my Week 2 comment on your blog and now I am totally paranoid. It is summer and a Sunday night, I'm not supposed to be using my brain, right? I never thought about how vulnerable everything is from our economy to our educational system just by opening this "portal". It makes viruses and hackers seem trivial. Do you really think people are listening to your car interior if you have onstar? hmmmm.
June 22, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Anonymous said…
I think I'm as floored as Sally by that article. It does make you think of the vastness of what's around us for sure.
June 30, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Philosophy & the Thinker: How Can I Use Virtual Reality in the Classroom?

Image
Just ten years ago if you said "virtual reality" to a student (really, even to your colleagues), they might have responded with their best stab at what they could remember from a Philosophy class. Little did anyone really know (even the programmers) that teachers would jump at the opportunity to include what equated to "stepping into the machine" a la "Tron" in order to experience things previously unavailable to our classrooms.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/explore-ancient-egypt.html The popularity of virtual reality as a medium and a mode has exploded for entertainment (think video games and short movies), for travel (Yes! You CAN take your kids to the pyramids of Egypt or even to time travel to 17th century colonial period society!), medicine (Want to know how to travel the bloodstream as a corpuscle?), and for reimagining their surroundings in ways that enable them to communicate their identities and ideas.  Museums are now buil...
Read more

Portals and Possibilities

I love blogging! No, really, I do...I have another blog that I've been using for a year now (though not as consistently as I would like). It's a travel/life experiences blog that I began just before leaving to teach in Israel and Palestine last summer, and it's meant to be both a raw, honest look at what I experienced as well as a place to ask questions, integrate and challenge perceptions of reality and possibility, and to reflect on where my path in life takes me. The ability to share my experiences overseas in (almost) realtime with my family and friends was an amazing opportunity to share traveling and personal growth with those who understood me most deeply. They asked compelling questions and encouraged me, and I think this medium creates a powerful opportunity to influence and learn in both directions. It is my hope that my students discover the power of this portal to a new journey and share it in order to both inspire and be inspired. ~V
Read more

It's Been a While...

A lot has happened since we last saw each other. Don't be mad. I've been working on another blog. Yes, I know, I left you out here for a bit on your own, but life changed so much! I'm in graduate school now, and believe it or not, I was encouraged to come back to this venue to explore new tools, new experiences, and how life keeps changing (Imagine!) I'm excited, as there is a whole new audience, I think, and better facets to this blog of mine that may not have existed when I created it in, what...2008? It's nine years after this inception, and I think six years since my last post, so let's get this new phase of the adventure started! We are not just 21st Century Teachers; we are 21st Century Explorers of the Mind. Love it. Let's do this. V :)
Read more