Teachers are on the Front Lines of the Digital Revolution

The digital revolution was just getting under way in the mid 1990s and the challenge to traditional education was felt keenly by the teachers on the firing line – and on the interface between eras. The teachers of Grays Lake Illinois asked Richard Thieme to help them know what would be needed to make the transition successfully. This inservice presentation emphasized “the human in the machine” – the capacity of ordinary men and women to be resilient and heroic in the everyday world fired at them at point blank range.