It also gives me an image of the myth of Sisyphus (see Albert Camus). Sisyphus is a mythological character who was doomed for all eternity to forever roll a giant boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down every time it reached the top. It’s the eternal repetition, the inability to enact on lessons learned from the past, that is so tormenting…and now I see that certain education reformers have willingly subjected themselves to a similar fate. hmmm.
Also, what that guy should really do if he wants to convince educators to adopt his new technology is AIRLIFT it in. He can set the airlift to “auto-drop,” then runreallyfast into the school and say, with an expression of surprise, “Oh–what’s this descending upon us? It must be the will of GOD that we adopt this new technology! Well, goodbye!”
Amen! Or rather… nice point. Cuban highlights how extreme technology reformers often are in their blind belief of the need to bring these technologies to the schools, but never goes quite so far as to mention the technique (as Nardi and O’day noted) in the form of divine intervention!
How big do you think it needs to be? There may be a crass joke in there somewhere, but also how would we know how much money it will take to bring TNBT to schools?
Drawing Things Together | Joshua January 27, 2010 
I laughed out loud, this is so funny.
It also gives me an image of the myth of Sisyphus (see Albert Camus). Sisyphus is a mythological character who was doomed for all eternity to forever roll a giant boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down every time it reached the top. It’s the eternal repetition, the inability to enact on lessons learned from the past, that is so tormenting…and now I see that certain education reformers have willingly subjected themselves to a similar fate. hmmm.
Also, what that guy should really do if he wants to convince educators to adopt his new technology is AIRLIFT it in. He can set the airlift to “auto-drop,” then runreallyfast into the school and say, with an expression of surprise, “Oh–what’s this descending upon us? It must be the will of GOD that we adopt this new technology! Well, goodbye!”
Amen! Or rather… nice point. Cuban highlights how extreme technology reformers often are in their blind belief of the need to bring these technologies to the schools, but never goes quite so far as to mention the technique (as Nardi and O’day noted) in the form of divine intervention!
I just keep wondering, “Is the bag of money big enough?”
How big do you think it needs to be? There may be a crass joke in there somewhere, but also how would we know how much money it will take to bring TNBT to schools?