{"id":280,"date":"2008-12-05T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-12-05T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T03:09:00","slug":"ask-iste-a-simple-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Ask ISTE a Simple Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/63rghz\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 135px; height: 76px;\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn3.google.com\/images?q=tbn:lrwXKg2vHMKR-M:http:\/\/www.iste.org\/Images\/about\/links\/print-quality\/iste-cmyk.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Last year, more than 100,000 generous Americans invested in the One Laptop Per Child&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/63rghz\">Give One, Get One<\/a> promotion (as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptops4kids.net\">on this web site<\/a> created by my Masters degree students). The promotion made it possible to make a personal laptop computer a reality for hundreds of thousands of children in some of the world&#8217;s poorest countries.<br \/><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c-M77C2ejTw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>Since ISTE seeks to be the premiere educational technology advocacy group in the world, it seems curious they have done nothing whatsoerver to promote the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\">One Laptop Per Child<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/63rghz\">Give One, Get One promotion<\/a> ending at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Why not take a minute to contact some of the folks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iste.org\/Content\/NavigationMenu\/AboutISTE\/ContactUs\/Contact_Us1.htm\">listed here<\/a> on the ISTE web site or its <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6hn7nb\">Board of Directors<\/a> and ask them why the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">I<\/span>nternational Society for Technology in Education is silent on connecting the world&#8217;s poorest children to the 21st Century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, more than 100,000 generous Americans invested in the One Laptop Per Child&#8217;s Give One, Get One promotion (as explained on this web site &hellip; 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