I have found that I have a strong passion for education. To some of my closest friends that may come as a surprise, because I dropped out of high school and college, expressing a large amount of disdain along the way. I've found that largely my disdain came from school and classroom bureaucracy that gets in the way of learning.
Students need broadband. I firmly believe this. Depriving them of that is crazy. Students don't need facebook or flash games. They need TED talks and Wikipedia.
Please Support HB-4. Send the Education Committee your thoughts.
Representative,
I am in strong support of the distance learning project HB 4
I left my High School because there were not enough opportunities. I then left College, and pursued much my learning through online sources, and have now started a Columbus Ohio Small Business in the Technology field. This worked in my situation but I have also seen many advanced and remedial students not given the opportunities that they need. Advanced access to broadband could help that significantly. Since High School, the majority of my learning has been online.
The statistic quoted to me was that 28% of ohio high schools have 1.5Mbs of Bandwidth or less. That is ridiculous. In my home I have 7Mbs of bandwidth for just me. I'm sure in your home, you have 768kbs (.7Mbs) AT LEAST.
These days, not giving students (fast) access to the internet is like not giving them textbooks.
Support HB 4.
Sincerely,
Issac Kelly
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24th April 2009
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I'm Issac. I live in Oakland. I make things for fun and money. I use electronics and computers and software. I manage teams and projects top to bottom. I've worked as a consultant, software engineer, hardware designer, artist, technology director and team lead. I do occasional fabrication in wood and plastic and metal. I run a boutique interactive agency with my brother Kasey and a roving cast of experts at Kelly Creative Tech. I was the Director of Technology for Nonchalance during the The Latitude Society project. I was the Lead Web Developer and then Technical Marketing Engineer at Nebula, which made an OpenStack Appliance. I've been building things on the web and in person since leaving Ohio State University's Electrical and Computer engineering program in 2007. Lots of other really dorky things happened to me before that, like dropping out of high school to go to university, getting an Eagle Scout award, and getting 6th in a state-wide algebra competition. I have an affinity for hopscotch.