Edutainment That Every Student Needs For The 21st Century!

As you know if you've read these posts enough, I love technology. As I was planning how to create a live photo blog, live twittering session, live blogging, and yes video posts on YouTube for an upcoming project for work; I began thinking like the Presidential candidates. I started out by giving the executive director of the organization my "straight talk express," and I told him that " I would be ready for the job from day one," and when he and the conference chairperson asked me if we would pull this thing off within a month I flatly stated, "Yes we can!"

As I began search the web for inspiration, I saw this wonderful shot by George Ruiz that captured how I would tackle this challenge. I decided that I would use my Mac and my iPod iTouch in tandem so that people could follow the 26th Annual Federal Women's Conference by computer, by phone, or by device as things happened. If they were patient, I would have the whole session by video on Blip.Tv and YouTube.

This caused me to come to an astounding conclusion that I have researched and talked about for the entire decade, and especially the last five years: one's education is a full scale production and if the movie is a flop it is because of the producers, the director, the actors, the crew and the executive producers. I

n other words, someone has to give everyone involved in educating students from K-12 and from undergraduate to graduate school some straight talk if we are going to have creative and thinking workers who are ready to perform at peak levels from day one.

The Mac and the iPhone may seem like expensive toys to most, but they have an ease of use and popularity that is unmatched right now. Every student should have these tools or their equivalent in an open system so that there is never an excuse for missing homework and so that students and professors and parents and teachers can speak to each other online when there is a problem.

The bottom line is that education is our show, and when we have the number of dropouts and poorly prepared students: productivity will follow in the workplace. We cannot afford to lose anyone in this global economy as the Baby Boomers are leaving the scene. Let's get the tools in the hands of the students like laptops and convergence devices so that we can get the digital straight talk express going right now, so that everyone is ready to compete in this global economy.
Can we do it? Yes, we can!

However, there must be a will from the people not the politicians. They work for us, and it is high time that we remind those who have forgotten this fact. This is the United States of America, and we have a Constitution that begins with, "We the People in order to perform a more perfect union!" It does not say we the individual. It says we the people! Capitalism is a great economic system, but it has a few flaws that require safety nets because there will always be big winners and losers with this great system. We cannot have a wonderful capitalist system that does not protect us all from the tyranny of minority as well as the tyran