On 04/13/2013 08:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, I wonder when you're going to get up to speed. LoL!
Bhairitu:
Up to speed for what?
For innovative instructional technology?
But you don't need really high bandwidth for that. Around 12 mbps will
do. Nice to have higher bandwidths but then much of the time that
becomes a marketing thing. Even at around 10 mbps I'm seeing near Bluray
quality video on Netflix. That makes Comcast look shoddy.
Fiber is fiber. Sonic.net built fiber in the nearby town of Sebastopol
probably because ATT hadn't tied it up. The Internet is now as
important as any highway and like our interstate highways belong in the
commons not in the hands of some sleazy old men in business suits. When
communities in North Carolina started building community fiber the
telecom bought off Republicans in their state government got a law
passed against it. What a crime! The telecoms are today's bandits.
They say that information is power and power to the people.
In states where online education has made headway, often
via laws that make room for charter schools, local and
state teachers unions have filed lawsuits and pushed
legislation to place strict caps on charter school
enrollment, close virtual schools altogether, and—in a
rather spectacular display of purposeful obtuseness about
how the Internet works—to limit enrollment to students who
live in the district in which the online school is based.
'Will Teachers Unions Kill Virtual Learning?'
Reason.com:
http://tinyurl.com/chmf9hj
'Google Fiber Expands TV, Internet to Austin, Texas'
http://tinyurl.com/ccgadh7 http://tinyurl.com/ccgadh7
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