Thursday, May 22, 2008

Books victorious over “thin clients” in the electronic age

In a recent Enquirer story, Dee Smith Amos writes about how Purcell Marian High School received a bunch of “thin clients” from Cincinnati Bell, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco. In many ways, the story reads like a feeble attempt by Purcell Marian to boost enrollment through the appeal of technologyâ€"but a slick conclusion to the story undermines, in some ways, the technocrats who pretend computers are the answer to all societal (and educational) woes. I remember, several years ago, listening to a