Bob Mercer mistakes Ken Blanchard's sporadic narrow-minded only-ism for the deepest thinking in the state. Dr. Blanchard says past performance does not indicate future climate results: I have been skeptical of world climate modeling projected into the future for the…
Posts tagged as “technology”
The Sioux Falls school district just made a slam-dunk tech decision. They will outfit 17,500 grade 3-12 students with Google Chromebooks. These bare-bones laptops run nothing but 'Net. Communicate with webmail, create and collaborate on documents on Google Docs or…
Eagle Creek Software Services must be getting tired of working so hard trying to convince prospective employees to move their families out to Pierre. Company president Ken Behrendt says he'll bring 200 jobs to a new center in Vermillion and…
One of the key planks of Governor Dennis Daugaard's failed education reform package this year was a push for more science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates. But do we really need more students going into math and science? New…
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is making possible an increase in U.S. oil production that... is working in tandem with energy-efficiency policy and technology to lead us toward energy self-sufficiency; made us a net exporter of petro-products in 2011 (tell me…
The New York Times identifies the "Silicon Prairie," an area in the center of America seeing increased capital venturing into tech start-ups: From Des Moines to Omaha to Kansas City — a region known more for its barns than its…
John Kelley sends me some recommendations for enhancing my French curriculum. John says I should add some science, math, and technology objectives (we do use Google Docs!), French history (we do read some articles), and discussion of world economic turmoil…
A commenter last week got me thinking about South Dakotans' political maturity and capability. We put three measures on our 2012 ballot by petition, then voted all three down. We killed two really bad ideas from the Governor and one…