The Digital Divide

Worse than it's ever been?

What do you think? Is this a true impediment to learning? To life in general? Who do we leave behind?

A Little Inspiration

Here's a video done by a former student for the imovie project. Just something fun I thought you all as current students could relate to. Enjoy the holiday and please let me know if you have any questions.

Do you know what ctrl-f does?

How technologically literate are our students?

Are we teaching them skills they can actually use when they enter the real-world?

Online or The Real World?

Interesting piece over in New City by Michael Workman.

What do you think? Has technology created such discrete limitations on our social interactions that we're reduced to being interested only in what facebook tells us to be interested in?

Travelling Stories

Do you have a travelling story about Chicago?
Has any of your family travelled to Chicago from somewhere, or vice versa?

Please share!

Do you know this?

Based on the work we're doing in some classes, regarding images (this being the final weeks of looking at their power) - do you know this image and the power it relates? Without looking it up online, would you care to guess or tell us what you think it is?

Ice Cream Revolution

As a quick note with the growing interest in the "Occupy Wall Street" Campaign, an unexpected sponsor has offered their moral support to the project.

MORAL SUPPORT

Tremendous stuff.