Having helped build tmedweb.tulane.edu as a student, I was intrigued to read: > As Tulane University President Scott S. Cowen put it, the conference offered th

Having helped build tmedweb.tulane.edu as a student, I was intrigued to read: > As Tulane University President Scott S. Cowen put it, the conference offered the potential for a “group therapy session,” I agree with nl, the resistance to change is overwhelming, and it's bizarre to hear the fat cats can go to conferences for group therapy. I think "edupunk" is at once too narrow and obviously a bit double-edged. More broadly, there is a profound resistance to consumers creating their own tools. Except in software. In software, it's celebrated. Developers have awesome tools for developing. But the students who want to develop a CMS for their school will be pushed around by "concerned" faculty until they graduate. Doctors who want to develop a better medical records system are locked out by pre-existing contracts and non-cooperation in the name of privacy and security. A huge issue is that we aren't teaching everyone to write code. We don't need everyone to be a erlang systems programmer, but we need to give people the tools to become the innovators these university professors want. Why are we making every high school sophmore sit through geometry and learn binomial expansion when learning some basic python and sql would be a hell of a lot more applicable for anyone who actually wanted to do something done in today's economy?