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Is Trump for Real?
Make America great again. Tax cuts. Tremendous relief. Individual mandate is now gone. You can dream anything. You can be anything. In God we trust. (I see Pelosi clapping at that, which is ironic, considering she is a fake Catholic.) Little kid fu. Stand for the national anthem. Stone faced justices. Stone faced chiefs of…
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A Positive View of the World
I’m loving a recent post by Inc. Magazine profiling Bill Gates new favorite book, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. While I haven’t read the book yet, the review points out that the book takes a very positive view of the future of world while providing leadership advice to focus on positive progress rather than problems.…
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Students of the Future
EDUCAUSE recently published their five most popular videos of 2017. One that caught my eye was Students of the Future. This is great summary of where higher ed technology trends are taking us. The video emphasizes the following “hot topics.” Slow Death of Traditional Degrees While the “sheepskin” in higher ed will still be around…
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Low Code to No Code
For several years, I’ve been hearing about low-code platforms. These are usually web-based tools such as QuickBase, Appian, and others that focus mainly on the professional developer market and promise to speed up the development process. The disruption created by this model of Software Defined Everything (SDX) has become increasingly evident. But up to now,…
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First Freedom
A recent article reported that most college students believe that offensive speech is not protected by the Constitution. Of those surveyed, 44% answered that offensive speech is not protected while 39% answered correctly that the Constitution protects offensive speech. I guess the other 17% didn’t know, which is almost as bad. 62% agreed that campus groups…
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