Category: Author: Chad Dorsey
We put the last clock radio in our house in the Goodwill pile last week. Seeing it sitting on the pile to go downstairs was a surprising revelation for me. Somehow it felt wrong for a reason I couldn’t place. Then it hit me: a clock radio was my first real gadget purchase. For those […]
I recently fawned over Joi Ito’s NY Times story about how openness and the Internet change the way we approach innovation and daily life. However, the unabridged version he posted to his blog is actually much better. It’s interesting to think for a moment about this episode. First, the simple fact that this had to […]
I just finished reading Joi Ito’s great New York Times essay about the Internet and openness. This is clearly a piece that resonates with many of us at the Concord Consortium as well as in the creative technology community at large. Joi does an excellent job explaining and characterizing what it is about the Internet’s birth […]
Over the last week and a half, we – like everyone in the tech community – have been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs and his amazing legacy. Since we didn’t post about it on the date we first heard the news, it seems that the date of the memorial service is a fitting date […]
Sencha has the latest on the new iPad’s HTML5 performance, and the verdict looks quite good: The iPad 2’s Mobile Safari browser is the best implementation of WebKit on a mobile device. In our testing we tried to throw everything we could at the browser and it had no issues keeping up with the most […]
So many things to give thanks for. The Concord Consortium family had our own Thanksgiving this week, complete with turkey, stuffing and cranberries. We were happy to welcome a few new friends and a number of old friends, and have a great time. One way we showed our thanks was through our Thanksgiving tree, highlighting […]
Mashable.com featured our work heavily in its article today on 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education. Among other areas, the story cited our work with models and simulations, probes and sensors, and online assessment as examples of how technology has the potential to transform education. It’s humbling to see so many examples cited in so […]
We’re pleased to see that Education Week has featured our Evolution Readiness project. Their recent article describes evolution teaching efforts and describes the significant results our project has found in helping students as young as 10 years old learn about natural selection. We’re pleased to see continued attention to this important topic. Check out the […]
Noticed this past week that EdWeek’s Teacher Magazine had run a special column aggregating chat room comments about an issue particularly close to our heart: The difficult problem of school firewalls. The list of comments is quite interesting to read, as it pulls from both sides of the issue. As software designers for things we […]
Though it happened a while ago, it’s still worth a farewell nod: Sony announced a couple weeks back that the final cassette Walkman will roll off its assembly line soon. Sigh. Next thing you know, they’ll stop making Polaroid cameras, too. Oh, wait… (At least you can still get film for them.)