Human Side of Moore's Law-rest day blathering

Article can be found at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_004574.html

All his points have been made before in other ed. tech literature.

We won't see a nationwide change in the acceptance of real-use technology in the school until the "educational establishment" is filled w/ the "never been w/o a computer" folks. I think there is going to be a gap between the old-school educ. establishment and the current and future computer users. That gap, people between 35-60 years old who are just coming into the realm of policy makers won't really know which direction to point our educ. system. Mostly because they lack a vision what tech in schools should look like. They'll (generally speaking) want to pay lip service to tech but know the old way so well that it will be very uncomfortable in cutting a new, on-the-edge path. Change is good, and it is, but it's also very unpleasent, so is the thinking of many policy-makers and local school administrator.