Michael Wesch

Sometimes What’s Broke in Education Can’t Be Fixed by Tech, Part 2: What Steve Jobs Said

March 6, 2012 by jbb

Just before Apple announced it’s e-textbook/education event in late January, 9to5mac ran an article that harkened back to a 1996 Wired Magazine interview during which Steve Jobs famously said, “What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology.” Funny thing for someone to say who, in later years, was proud of the connection of this companies (Apple [...]

Filed Under: education re-examined, JBB's Ed Tech, JBB's Life Issues Tagged With: Bill Gates, e-textbooks, education, educational technology, fail, Intel, ipad, Michael Wesch, OLPC, politics, steve jobs, teacher's unions, textbook publishers, thesystem

Sometimes What’s Broke in Education Can’t Be Fixed by Tech, says Michael Wesch

March 1, 2012 by jbb

Recently The Chronicle of Higher Education said it more emphatically with the headline: “A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working.” According to the Chronicle, it seems that Internet superstar/Youtube ethnographer, Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is rethinking his anti-chalk-and-talk tech-infused simulation-styled classroom. It would seem that many are following [...]

Filed Under: education re-examined, JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Ed Tech, JBB's Media Buzz Tagged With: edtech, education, fail, good teacher, learning, lecture, Michael Wesch, teacher, technology, The Chronicle of Higher Education, thesystem, wonder, youtube

Curiosity at 'Cumberland'

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 15, 2013). The rover team plans to use Curiosity's drill to collect a powdered sample from the interior of the rock for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is the mission's second rock-drilling target. The rover drove from its position beside the first drilling target, "John Klein," to its position beside Cumberland with drives of 121 inches (308 centimeters) on Sol 273 (May 13) and 26.6 inches (67.5 centimeters) on Sol 275. Curiosity's total odometry on Mars is now 2,385 feet (727 meters). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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