Welcome, Bonnie Bracey Sutton!

The digital divide is still with us. Most people collect the ideas of the divide in old ways. Marc Prensky calls the groupings
digital natives and digital immigants. I add the digitally deficient to that group and the digital pioneers.

Later in a different blog I will discuss the digital, content, infrastructure and cultural divides.

We often forget that htere are many who haven't got a clue as to the world of the Internet. Many adolescents with access
are fluent in the ways of use of internet… Continue

You never hear me fuss about religious schools, or charter schools, or
most types of schools I have even taught in DODDS Schools and in a
school for dropouts. Teaching is sometimes a challenge but the nuns who
taught me were up to every challenge. So, that is one of the reasons I get fired up
when people like Michelle Rhee make fun of older teachers and do not realize that
these people and others stood in places where no one cared to teach and produced miracles.

My skill in teaching and being a… Continue

While everyone else is deep in 2.0 the Supercomputing is going on. Here is what we have put together for a conference. But I have limited attendance for this day. If you have friends who are in the Portland area I need your help.

The National Academy of Sciences has had hearings on STEM, on Science Learning and , gaming, simulations in education. A group of us, mostly EOT, NCWIT and others crafted a conference to further that message. This is a group of us who have worked together over months a… Continue

RACE or FACE? Bullying , CyberBullying?
How can we guide students in Cyberspace?

Bonnie Bracey Sutton

IWhat are these words in your mind when you first look at them?


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This is from a slide that Frank Worrell presented to the National Academy of Sciences.
What two words come to mind for you?
When you see those words?
Ask your friends.. Think about it.

I immediately thought of it when I read about the murder of the student in Chicago. First, I remembered my own hi… Continue

I love clouds.. my first images of them are from the Charlie Brown cartoons.. I think Lucy is lying on her back in a field talking about the shapes of the cloud.. Anyway , it is what I think of first when one says clouds. Then having taken lots and lots of
trips, I think of looking at clouds out of an airplane window. Or maybe thinking of storm clouds as they form and go dark. But clouds for computing? And what's that song... fragments of it float through my mind..

There is a game that I learne… Continue