Executive Perspective
Harnessing Kids’ Tech
Fascination
by DANIEL A.
DOMENECH
I
am intimidated by people like Alan November whose fingers glide over
their
computer keys and in the process go to
websites that offer the answers to all
the
questions that would otherwise go unanswered.
I do e-mail
and an
occasional PowerPoint presentation. I am
proud of the fact I now can do e-mail
on my
BlackBerry as well. That’s the extent of my prowess in technology.
Daniel A. Domenech
Jillian, my 17-year-old high school
senior, is another story. She sleeps with
her iPhone
under her pillow. If it were waterproof, I am sure that she would
bathe with
it. She does incredible things with her MacBook, from videos to post
on
YouTube to the content of her Facebook pages. Getting her to do her
homework
is a challenge, but getting her to turn
off her tech tools and go to sleep is an
even bigger
challenge.
This is the message that November, Keith
Krueger
and other presenters at our AASA Seattle
Summit in midsummer conveyed: Education
is missing
the boat by not taking advantage of the love affair between our kids
and
technology.
Personal Panic
I was a
young
superintendent
on Long Island,
N.Y., when, in 1978, I bought the first set of Commodore PET computers for our
schools. You could play Space Invaders on it, but mostly you had to learn to
program the darn thing to get it to do anything. High school courses focused
primarily on learning programming language. Few could afford to buy a Commodore
for home use and the power of the Internet had yet to be
unleashed.
Muslim Academy on 04 Sep 12At the end of a long hadeeth, beloved prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, '..Then it will be a Khilafah on the premises of the Prophet Hood', then he (the Prophet) kept silent. (Musnad Ahmed) This hadeeth foretold about a future regime which to be established before the last day and not yet happened. The Muslim Ummah (society) has gone through almost every stages noted unless through a Khilafah (a perfect regime) after its drop in 1923 in Istanbul. And it's glad to say that some nations, some leaders and some movements throughout the Muslim community have started their try towards a Khilafah and to establish it soon. Anyhow it won't be a regime same as which was in Medina, Bagdad, Damascus, Delhi, Cairo and then in Istanbul. As to conditions of an era change the features of a rule and regime too change as it goes. Every one could easily understand this thing. In this situation, whoever tries for a Khilafah, which is same as in past won't be suitable and won't last almost wont starts.
