I've had friends and even state legislators call me while they are driving. That's part of why it's so hard to get the South Dakota Legislature to pass a texting/phoning-while driving ban: the majority of legislators are trying to catch…
Posts tagged as “technology”
We're still having trouble persuading Governor Dennis Daugaard to expand Medicaid to help South Dakota's working poor. All that Obamacare money is just too unreliable to dirty South Dakotans' hands. But Governor Daugaard has had no problem handing out an…
It's Dairy Month in South Dakota, wherein we celebrate an industry in which the pro-corporate policies of Bill Janklow, M. Michael Rounds, and Dennis Daugaard have concentrated ownership in just 370 hands. (Once upon a time, South Dakota had 20,000…
Speaking of technology and attention, here's a great video via Lifehacker on how we learn and how the constant stream of new stimuli from our computers and phones undermines our learning: When you let new items—e-mails, Tweets, texts, new Webpages…
An interview on NPR Tuesday morning about the evolution of technology caught my attention with this opening: JOE PALCA, BYLINE: In the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the ultimate evil enemy threatening to destroy humanity was an alien…
During our professional development time at Spearfish High School yesterday, we discussed Susan Kruger's SOAR study skills program, which Spearfish HS will implement next school year. One of the key components of SOAR is a big binder in which students…
The Harrisburg and Hanson school districts are among the best schools in the nation at integrating technology in education, according to a survey by the Center for Digital Education. Harrisburg placed fourth among mid-sized school districts (3,000-12,000 students), while Hanson…