Slide deck for the MASL 2014 conference session "The New Reality of Literacy"

4. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

5. And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

15. “I THOUGHT THE KIDS WOULD PLAY WITH
THE BOXES. WITHIN FOUR MINUTES, ONE KID
NOT ONLY OPENED THE BOX, FOUND THE
ON-OFF SWITCH … POWERED IT UP. WITHIN
FIVE DAYS, THEY WERE USING 47 APPS PER
CHILD, PER DAY. WITHIN TWO WEEKS, THEY
WERE SINGING ABC SONGS IN THE VILLAGE,
AND WITHIN FIVE MONTHS, THEY HAD
HACKED ANDROID,” NEGROPONTE SAID.
“SOME IDIOT IN OUR ORGANIZATION OR IN
THE MEDIA LAB HAD DISABLED THE CAMERA,
AND THEY FIGURED OUT THE CAMERA, AND
HAD HACKED ANDROID.”
SOURCE: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/

16. Days with my Father

17. Snowfall at Tunnel Creek

18. NY Times Olympic Runners

19. Love Story in 22 Images

20. History of the World in 2 Minutes