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- Computer Literacy
- Understanding computers and related systems. It includes a working vocabulary of computer and information system components, the fundamental principles of computer processing and a perspective for how non-technical people...
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- Computer literacy needs to start early
- Computer literacy needs to start earlyBe sure that he learns aboutYouTube.comandYouPorn.comRe: Computer literacy needs an early start.Yes it's a good idea to teach computer skills at an early age. However, what size PC keyboards are available for small hands? The school might be reluctant to teach keyboard skills, due to...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-29
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- Getting your teachers started with 1:1
- Yesterday I wrote about the potential of 1:1 for improving literacy in our schools. However, as we integrate laptops more and more into classroom time, teachers frequently ask for simple ways to get started. How do they use these new resources for something more than glorified word processors...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- News to know: Google; CTIA; Microsoft; 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. Larry Dignan: FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people Sam Diaz:Mobile VoIP services no longer taboo, following AT&T...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- How important is 1:1 to literacy?
- I think that writing with pencil and paper is over rated. I almost never write anything with a pencil anymore. The newer generations will write even less. Better that they learn to write with modern tools. And, what better way than to give each one a laptop.Tell that to Neal...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Microsoft to roll out IE 8 with new defaults on Patch Tuesday
- I think the EU is the only one who caresI really cannot believe this is such a big deal. If people don't know how to change their defaults. I hardly think they know about any browser but IE.Could the argument not be made against any Linux version? I have tried...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- While I'm away..."How I'd use Classmate PCs in the States (and why I really want a UMPC now)"
- Here's a blast from the past...This was originally posted back in 2007. Classmates and 1:1 have come a long ways, haven't they? While the United States and other established markets are not the target for Intel’s Classmate PC, I sincerely hope they bring something like this...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Reconciling social computing with the enterprise
- Reconciling social computing with the enterpriseThe social aspect of Enterprise 2.0Dion,The tools themselves are just not enough - you are writing more and more about the social dimension to computing and the enterprise - this is even more powerful.Through the ages of IT user and social involvement has become...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- So how 'bout them universities?
- So how 'bout them universities?I'll just reply here . . . Not being the social networking nut that most ZDNet authors are, I'll just reply here, thanks. Don't have twitter, not interested.But I am a student, so I've got a few things to say . . ."Enhancing communication and collaboration...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Did you get my little computer back yet?
- That's what my youngest son calls the Convertible Classmate that Intel has given me on long-term loan to really put through its paces in a variety of real-world settings. For the last month it has been with an autistic kindergartner and generally passed around the younger grades at my...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle
- Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger KindlePart of the mythis that the costs of textbooks will go down dramatically because cost of reproduction publishing will go down. When in fact, the actual cost of the paper, printing and binding are minor costs in the production of the textbooks....
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K thr. 5As I read your post, I kept checking back to the intro to make sure I had not misread it, but I had not. It did say pre-K through 5. My overwhelming reaction is that the first three parts of...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Distance Lab seeking couples to test drive 'intimacy' device
- Cheap air travel and the Web undermine the impact of distance, but geographically separated couples could use a better alternative than technologies like text, email, and video chat when physical intimacy is not an option. Enter Mutsugoto, a device designed to communicate intimacy by allowing for couples,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Cart troubles
- One of our schools has two carts of MacBooks. They're new this year and the principal has done a wonderful job of scheduling the heck out of them. They have brief downtime around lunch but are otherwise pushing 100% utilization. However, all is not well in MacBook...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Stop bashing social networks
- Stop bashing social networksWhy the commotion?The guy was on BBC 2's Newsnight and it was pretty obvious to me, that he's one of those types who would demonise computer games as the catalyst for violent behaviour.Although it was pointed out to him by another guest, that his evidence didn't reveal...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- How I'd spend the Title I stimulus money
- First there was education money, then there wasn't, then there was a little bit. Now it looks as though some number of billions of dollars details remain sketchy will be flowing to schools via the federal Title I program as a result of the Economic Recovery Act (aka, the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Live from New York: Amazon
- Live from New York: AmazonGot a pic of the Kindle 2 itself? ntnt = no textRE: Live from New York: AmazonIMO if AMZ wants Kindle 2.0 acceptance, all they have to do is convince the publishers of college and university textbooks into Kindle format and promise to save parents some...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our designRE: Hey Open Source come back -- Use our design"Bill Gates told CNET News that the "OLPC hasn't done that well" ..."Hence no ROI."... --the group said that it would be working with Microsoft to make a Windows variety of its XO laptop, ..."Anticipation...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- Convertible Classmate, take 2
- I spent my day at one of our elementary schools, ensuring that the rollout of some new RTI software went smoothly. It was also the day that we first pushed our mobile labs of MacBooks to full utilization, so I kept myself pretty busy today. While the day...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Fedora 10 + Acer Aspire One = damn fine computer
- In case folks haven't noticed, I'm quickly becoming enamored of the Acer Aspire One netbook I'm reviewing for the next couple of weeks. So what does it take to make the Acer even better? It takes a better operating system. Linpus Linux is...
- Blog posts 2009-01-04
- D-Link Case Study: Kirkstead Junior School (United Kingdom)
- Providing for the education needs of 260 pupils aged between 7 and 11 years, Kirkstead Junior School is very much part of the local close-knit community in the rural Derbyshire village of Pinxton. The school had recently addressed significant issues in literacy and to support this needed to ensure that...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
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