Room With A View

I listened to Tim Wilson interview Jeff Utecht on The Savvy Technolgist Podcast yesterday. Tim interviewed Jeff while at NECC last week. Jeff has two blogs The Thinking Stick and Utecht Tips. I was interested to listen to the podcast as Jeff has just finished his first year of teaching at an international school in Shanghai. I was interested to hear how it compares to Beijing.

I could relate to much of what he said especially that he really didn’t have answers to Tim’s questions about technology and schools in China. though he wants to find out more in the future. I feel the same way. The first year in a new school is always busy. Add to that all that goes into moving to a new country, setting up a home, and figuring out how things work, it gets super busy. Though I’d like to find out more about schools in China and the use of technology in education it will be hard to do. The combination of the way the government tries to control information and the mainstream media’s way of putting a positive spin on everything makes it very challenging to find out what’s really happening.

Also, Jeff commented that the broadband was cheap. As an expat, I consider it cheap too but I wonder how cheap it is for the “average” citizen. Also, I wonder how available it is for people in more rural areas.