REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark opened the 2010 Symposium with his own story of using technology over the last decade or more, to illustrate the title of his presentation 'The geeks shall inherit the earth'. Donald includes a demonstration of connecting a school to high speed broadband, with the message that connectivity must be fast, open, cheap and ubiquitous.
REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark opened the 2010 Symposium with his own story of using technology over the last decade or more, to illustrate the title of his presentation 'The geeks shall inherit the earth'. Donald includes a demonstration of connecting a school to high speed broadband, with the message that connectivity must be fast, open, cheap and ubiquitous.
REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark opened the 2010 Symposium with his own story of using technology over the last decade or more, to illustrate the title of his presentation 'The geeks shall inherit the earth'. Donald includes a demonstration of connecting a school to high speed broadband, with the message that connectivity must be fast, open, cheap and ubiquitous.
Marg McLeod, CORE Education Project Director, talks about the growing number of fibre optic loops being established across New Zealand. Marg describes the opportunities these bring for collaboration, and what she calls the potential for the 'democratization of knowledge'.
Pacific Fibre Co-founder, Lance Wiggs, talks about the Pacific Fibre optic cable system planned between Australia, New Zealand and the US, and some of the reasons why this project is important for the future of New Zealand as a vibrant, growing economy. Lance outlines some of the challenges to be overcome, and some of the potential for NZ and for education in particular.
The infrastructure layer of the Network for Learning will provide the ‘highway’ across which all of the services that support the teaching and learning will be delivered. Students and teachers want easy, reliable access to their resources and to be able participate in online communities and forums. This is the 2nd video in this series.
