TikTok Exists to Exfiltrate Spontaneous Creativity
TikTok has one purpose - to create a data set of spontaneous creativity. This precious gift of humanity will be weaponized against you. AI is not spontaneous. AI requires a stream of creativity for machine learning algorithms to accumulate the data needed to outthink humans.
The Price Paid for No Strategic Direction
At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy. During the hours that I was writing this on 1-26-10, the final essay, I learned that our recently appointed Vice-Superintendent of Education decided to remove me from the teachers' mailing list that has served as an avenue for knowledge and transparency.
Compromised by Procurement
At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy.
Compromised by Procurement
Building upon the essay, Saving the DOE, let us examine the most pervasive technology cost for the State of Hawaii and the DOE in particular - Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software licenses. At an average of $25 and $55 per computer, respectively, this $80, combined with the $26 saved by replacing Lotus Notes with Google Apps for Education, your leadership can influence the savings of $106 per computer in the DOE. The revenue kept in Hawaii can be used for the management, training, and support of the computers across our islands.
Saying Yes to Changes
At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy.
Saying Yes to Changes
Saying Yes to the offer from Google to provide free email, calendering, messaging, documents, and more as part of its Google Apps for Education suite can save the State 50 million dollars. Google made this offer to the DOE and to the University of Hawaii in March of 2009. While some schools have voluntarily adopted this service, the DOE and the University of Hawaii have not.
Failing to Leverage Buying Power
Failing to Leverage Buying Power
Everyone aware of education and NCLB know how important the HSA, Hawaii State Assessment, test is for our NCLB compliance. This year the DOE has turned to Washington D.C. based Advanced Institute for Research to design our online test. In a demonstration of the lack of strategic decision making, THE WEB-BASED HSA ONLINE TEST WILL NOT SUPPORT THE SCREEN RESOLUTION OF THE NETBOOKS THAT NEARLY EVERY SCHOOL USES. Having seen the torment our tech coordinators are undergoing as they try to determine if they can support this test, please, if you are serious about saving money, creating jobs, and doing anything other than blaming others, ask yourself the following:
Paying to Watch Videos
At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy.
Paying to Watch Videos
Today I introduce you to the Statewide license purchased from the School Improvement Network, (SIN). The product is a collection of professional development videos from PD360.
Economic Initiatives for the State of Hawaii
In December of 2009, after I submitted my Saving the DOE to Hawaii's State Senators and Representatives, I was asked to interview with, and was subsequently offered a job, by one of our Representatives. It was my "out of the box" thinking that inspired and encouraged him. At his request, I provided the following economic ideas that could be accomplished in both the short and long term.
Economic Initiatives for the State of Hawaii
The key to economic savings is to realize just how much fat we still have to trim, and to reap the benefits from expecting more from our own economy. They say a conservative is a liberal with a mortgage, and now is the time for us all to take ownership of our home we call Hawaii. While one cannot make "The Grapes of Wrath" required viewing or reading, we must agree that as a State we still have adequate resources to adapt and innovate. Monumental change must occur or else we may begin stewing in our own dust bowl.
Saving the DOE
In response to the 2009 recession, only Hawaii has reduced school days and, consequently, compromised its future. Below is an essay that I shared with our elected officials in hopes of inspiring change.
Saving the DOE
Sometimes the most simple solutions are right before your eyes. As you read this message, perhaps you will ask yourself:
Free and Open Source Software Overview for Hawaii's DOE
In May of 2009, after introducing the Google Apps for Education Team to our Department of Education to provide a deficit-reducing replacement for Lotus Notes, I wrote this summary for Vice-Superintendent Rod Moriyama. It may be considered a SWOT analysis, of sorts, for the ways that Free and Open Source Software can benefit our DOE through secure, remotely-managed desktops that are supported locally. Knowing our DOE and how it prefers doing things on its own, my intent was to present a supportable, do-it-yourself future with managed desktops.
Free and Open Source Software Overview for Hawaii's DOE
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