When Technology Transformed Education

In this blog, I end up writing a great deal on how information technology has the potential to change the world around us.  

From big data to mobilization to social to cloud: there's no shortage of fascinating examples where the potential for great changes are visible -- if we choose to pursue them. 

Like many of you, I am drawn to examples where technology can change people's lives for the good: health care, poverty -- and especially education. 

In this morning's New York Times, we read about the example of Mooresville, North Carolina who have used rather conventional technology to re-engineer the educational experience.

As a result, they are drawing considerable attention -- not so much because they're using technology -- but because they're changing their entire approach to education around what the technology can do.