Being prepared on the World Wide Web

The Boy Scouts have released a new version of their famous 475-page Boy Scout Handbook that still includes tips on how to build a campfire but adds new material on how to surf safely when out in the World Wide Web. For the first time the handbook is now also available...

In a digital future, textbooks are history

Information technology in the private sector didn’t make a substantive difference until users realized IT’s real purpose was to do more than simply digitize existing processes. IT enabled new processes and new business models. I was reminded of this when reading an...

Creating an environment for student excellence

In a speech during the summer to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, President Barack Obama cited a Manhattan high school, Bard High School Early College, as one example of the type of innovation in education that should be encouraged...

Jon Stewart's trustworthiness no surprise

In the wake of Walter Cronkite’s death, time.com asked readers to vote for today’s most trusted newscaster.  The decisive winner, with 44 percent of the vote, was Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s pull-no-punches “The Daily Show.” This was well ahead of the 29 per...
Don Tapscott