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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Bricklin has spoken of watching his university professor create a table of calculation results on a blackboard. Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested.

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Gen Z Hearts AHA

Connection Cafe

Facebook, iPads, Blackboard, Wikipedia (don't judge me, but there's good stuff there). Now, I had a pen and paper, and a severe writer's bump, when I was in school. However, today's Generation Z , also known as the Net Generation, has loads of über-technologically advanced resources at their hands.