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What happened to HP calculators?

I have to go buy a new calculator for my combinatorics class, as well as for the physics classes I'm teaching next year. While my old HP 48G still works, it lacks the connectivity options I need for in-class demos and it's painfully slow. To HP's credit, it...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-12

If calculators=Chuck E. Cheese employee, then computers=?

A recent post of mine Revenge of the calculators seemed to ring true with quite a few readers. I think that most math teachers would agree wholeheartedly that an overreliance on calculators has done an awful lot of damage to students computational skills. Most would also agree that...

Tags: calculator, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-02

Revenge of the calculators

I took my kids to Chuck E. Cheese today. We had a great time eating pizza and playing games and, as always, the kids racked up quite a few tickets. For those of you who have never had the pleasure of going to one of these epicenters of...

Tags: Education Technology, calculator, Chuck E. Cheese

Blog posts 2007-01-27

Why calculators are scarier than MySpace

Fellow blogger, George Ou, and I had a very interesting exchange this weekend over Marc Wegner's post on the Lame $100 Laptop. In a nutshell, we came to the conclusion that it was very easy to jump on the more-technology-is-better bandwagon, but much harder to address fundamental underlying deficiencies in...

Tags: calculator

Blog posts 2006-04-09

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Blog posts 2009-10-28

News to know: VMWorld; Disney-Marvel; netbooks; Blackberry Storm; mobile banking; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance, Day 1 Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009...

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Blog posts 2009-09-01

News to know: Microhoo; Multilingual spam; Apple; Verizon; Sprint

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft-Yahoo search pact appears to be a win-win if smaller deal Boomtown: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck-Will Be Announced...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Verizon Communications Inc., SPSS Inc., Apple Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Has the UK gone too far in social media education?

I have to share a cartoon that made its way to me last week (yes, I'm as behind in my blogging as I am in my day job, my spring yard work, and virtually every other aspect of my life) and then give a bit of thought to the story...

Tags: Education, Curriculum, Social Media, U.K., Twitter, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-29

News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon Kindle, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Mortgages, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Finance, Capital Structures, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

And the calculator saga continues

I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...

Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-05

My growing hatred for calculators

Is it just me, or are graphing calculators overly complicated? I've never been a big fan of calculators; I think they're a crutch on which most kids in the States rely far too heavily. However, when used correctly, they can certainly be a fine tool for automating tedious...

Tags: Student, Interface, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Could Android finally be the mobile education platform?

It's no secret that I'm a big ol' Google lover. I am, however, utterly attached to my BlackBerry. I've installed the Google Mobile Apps for the BlackBerry platform, but no matter how cool Android is, you'll have to pry my BlackBerry from my cold, dead hands. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Platform, RIM BlackBerry, Kindle, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Update that wishlist - I just tried a MacBook Air

I took a group of students to Cambridge yesterday for a field trip. I turned them loose in Harvard Square for a while, we wandered around MIT, and took in the Museum of Science. The most interesting part of the trip for me, however, was a stop at...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Multitouch, Keyboards, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Dumbing down our math tests?

The BBC is reporting on a trend in UK standardized math tests towards "easier, shallower and less demanding" examinations. Here in Massachusetts, I was working with our school psychologist to identify new interventions for special education students based on their standardized test scores. However, as she pointed out,...

Tags: Massachusetts, Test, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-05

News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares...

Tags: Security, Microsoft Office 2007, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?

I started my last two master's classes last night (!!). Since the classes consist largely of teachers, we usually end up having some pretty interesting discussions about teaching approaches to translating the master's-level content to secondary education. The first professor of the evening (analytic geometry, although...

Tags: Geometry, Professor, Math, Student, Teacher, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-30

iMovie lets students focus on content, not videography

A group of students borrowed my MacBook today to edit and produce a newscast. They had filmed the video on a new hard drive-based digital video camera and neither the Macs in the journalism lab nor their own Windows XP Home machines were up to the task of importing...

Tags: Apple iMovie, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-17

News to know: Apple as economic barometer; 100 GB memory chip; IE 8; Amazon DevPay

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: 100 GB memory chip coming in 2009 Larry Dignan: Apple's first quarter shines, but the outlook crushes stock; Is the beating warranted? David Morgenstern: Is Apple a barometer of the consumer economy? Janice Chen: The best cameras...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Memory Chip, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chip, Microsoft Windows, Semiconductors, Operating Systems, Memory, Software, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Yes, you can use your calculators

My geometry students always ask me if they can use their calculators. Always. You'd think by now they would know that the answer is going to be no. They think that because I'm a big geek I must want them to break out the TI's and go...

Tags: Student, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-11-27