Beth Holland: Barriers, Challenges, and Empathy in Fostering Broadband Access (Part 1 of 2)

A story that has become painfully familiar as the coronavirus pandemic has raged around us: without adequate Internet access, we are severely limited in our ability to work and learn effectively.

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Letter of Support for Universal Broadband in the U.S.

Introduction

Access to broadband internet and the tools needed to use that connectivity for work and learning is essential to building better futures for work and learning – and an essential element of Digital Equity, a priority that goes beyond technology access.  

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The Black Swan Thinking Project - Session 3: Who Framed The Narrative Of Cock Robin?

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Graphic Summary by Karina Branson

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Lev Gonick on Universal Broadband Access: If Not Now, When?

 “2020, for all the tragedy of COVID and the toll of human life and collective anxiety, is the year that universal broadband access moved from being a quixotic call in the wild to a near table stakes reality, especially for education needs,” Arizona State University (ASU) Chief Information Officer Lev Gonick observed during a recent interview for the ASU ShapingED

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The Black Swan Thinking Project - Session 2: How The Leopard Didn’t Get Its Spots

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My thanks to everyone who came to the second Black Swan Thinking Session. The recording of the session, and Karina Branson's superb graphic summary are linked above.

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The Black Swan Thinking Project - Session 1: Why The Little Dutch Boy Was The Little Doomed Boy

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My thanks to everyone who came to the first Black Swan Thinking Session. The recording of the session, and Karina Branson's excellent graphic summary are linked above.

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The Deconstruction of Flying Swans

As a follow up to last week’s post, a question: why start with the trilogy of systems, agents, networks? Why not start more directly - by, say, identifying Black Swan nesting grounds? It’s an important question, so I’d like to address it prior to next week’s session.

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Dianne Connery: Broadband Internet Access, Communities, Fundraising, and Libraries

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The Black Swan Thinking Project: Harnessing the Future by Framing the Past

“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. [...] The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Making Our Learning Networks Antifragile

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