By Charles Sosnik   Professional athletes and actors make big money, and those professions seem a lot more accessible to many young people than say, a computer analyst or someone working in the space industry. Last year, “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson made $119 million. Lebron made $88.5 million. Floyd Mayweather made $275 million. Even ...

  By CHARLES SOSNIK   We tend to speak in extremes these days. When online shopping replaces storefront shopping, we call it a Retail Apocalypse. In reality, consumers are simply making choices about how they want to buy. Technology didn’t kill retail shopping. It made it better. You will still have storefront shopping, particularly for ...

  By CHARLES SOSNIK One in four school-aged children currently do not attend a traditional public school. Even with all the positive changes being made by the dedicated men and women working in schools across our nation, more than 25 percent of American families are just saying no. In the United States, four million children ...

  By Charles Sosnik Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with an old friend, Chris Besse. I met Chris a few years ago when he was CEO of a company called Freshgrade, a Canadian education company that displays, saves and documents student work – energizing students and bringing parents into the equation in a ...

  By Charles Sosnik   Ray Kurzweil is a bestselling author, futurist and Director of Engineering for Google. When describing the life cycle of technology development, he talks about over-enthusiasm prior to the real revolution. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) fits this description perfectly. Every developer and his uncle have claimed that their tech is AI. ...

Connie Kolosey, Ed.D. is the Director of Media, Text and Digital Learning for the Pinellas School District in Florida. Like many of the districts in Florida, Pinellas is a large, county-wide district serving over 100,000 students. It is the seventh largest district in the state and the 26th largest in the nation. Recently, the Learning Counsel’s ...

  By Charles Sosnik Remember when Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, went public in 2004? I remember thinking that the initial price of $85 per share seemed a little high. In retrospect, the only one high was me, for not grabbing a hefty chunk of shares from the IPO online auction. ...