Stephen Downes

Patrick Welsh, who has taught English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, for the last 30 years, is not impressed with the new $98 million facility and isn't hesitant to say so, penning (no doubt!) a paean in the Washington post for overhead projectors (that are "far superior to computers for getting certain concepts across"), whiteboards (!) and good teaching. "Technology is just a tool," we are told, "not an end in itself. It will never replace good teaching." Maybe not. But for the people who cannot afford to attend $98 million schools - with or without gizmos - it already has. Via Will Richardson.