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- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprinting
- The UK is seeing a backlash to education authorities scanning student fingerprints without asking parents permission, reports PC Pro. Fingerprint systems are used in schools to allow students to access libraries and cafeterias. Seventeen thousand schools covering 5.9 million children have scanned and stored students fingerprints, but some are...
- Tags: Privacy, International, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Brits try text-messaging parents of truants
- UK officials fighting school truancy have something new in their arsenal -- a program to text-message parents of offenders, reports EADT 24. The government has selected five schools in North Essex with a particularly high rate of truancy for the new "text alert system." The system will notify...
- Tags: International, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Russians bring net to distant regions
- Connecting Russian schools to the Internet cannot be easy in a country as large as Russia, but that is the mandate of the national project simply called "Education", reports the Itar-Tass News Agency Connecting Russan schools, especially in extremely remote areas, has exceeded expectations, according to the Ministry...
- Tags: International, Education Technology, DigitalDivide
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- UK teachers told to follow protocol when allowing student contact
- Along with learning how to manage the classroom and organizing curriculum, British teachers now must worry about learning technology protocol, reports the Manchester Evening News. Due to possible accusations and complaints against teachers, The National Union of Teachers NUT is advising teachers not to text-message students outside of school....
- Tags: Teaching, International, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- In poor Mexico, interactive digital screens in 165,000 classrooms
- Mexico has embarked on the largest application of technology in schools, installing large interactive screens in 165,000 Mexican classrooms, reports the BBC. Some five million 10- and 11-year-olds Mexican students now get their curriculum delivered through large format digital screens which use a new interactive encyclopedia called, "Enciclomedia."...
- Tags: International, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- MIT joins with Emirates for country's first research-driven grad program
- In a joint effort to pave the way for a new Science and Technology Institute in Abu Dhabi, MIT and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company have sign an agreement to establish regions first-ever research-driven graduate program, according to the MIT News Office. The Masdar Institute of Science and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Russians prosecuting teacher who installed pirated Windows
- In a Goliath vs. David story, Microsoft is suing a Russian village school teacher for software piracy, reports the Associated Press. The intellectual property rights test case brought by Microsoft against Alexander Ponosov, a village school principal in the Ural Mountain region of Perm, about 620 miles east...
- Tags: Education Technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- EU con raises awareness of Internet safety in Europe
- In order to educate the public on an increasingly difficult problem, the European Union hosted the fourth annual Internet Safety Day on February 6, reports the BBC. Thirty-one countries participated in events to raise awareness of Internet safety among parents, teachers and kids. "I am calling upon all...
- Tags: Education Technology, Cybersecurity, International, cell phone, Internet, Internet Safety
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- One Laptop per Child ... a new perspective
- In my most recent post, Its not what their losing, its what they stand to gain, I came across a response from Antonio M. Battro, the Chief Education Officer of the One Laptop per Child association. I want to publicly thank Mr. Battro for his response and to share...
- Tags: Notebooks, Antonio M. Battro, laptop computer, textbook, One Laptop per Child
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Vista closed for UK schools
- Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 dont offer enough new features to warrant the investment, a British educational survey advisory group found, advising schools against upgrading. Although Microsoft touts huge improvements in its new software, The British Education Communications and Technology Association BECTA report cautions against it,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, UK School, BECTA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsofts
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- UK push for universal access to Internet
- The British government all students to have access to the Internet outside of school, schools minister Jim Knight proclaimed recently, reports ZD Net UK. Knight, speaking at the BETT educational technology show in London on Wednesday, said that a taskforce including Dell, Intel and RIM was being...
- Tags: Internet, Jim Knight
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Intel's World Ahead Initiative making changes in one school
- Poverty and AIDS plague South Africa - but a bold move by chip manufacturer Intel and its World Ahead Initiative is underway to help the next generation of Africans out of poverty and into the digital world, reports AllAfrica.com The $1 billion dollar plan is to train and educate...
- Tags: Maope School, computer, International, Education Technology, DigitalDivide
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Macedonia announces bold plan for PC access, training
- The government of Macedonia has recently announced a massive four-prong approach to beefing up computer literacy, reports MPT Online. The Macedonian government intends all primary and secondary students to have a computer within the next two years. Through a program of computer purchasing, training, Internet access and scholarships...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, International, Macedonia, computer
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
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- Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model
- While the U.S. launch of WiMAX marks the debut of fast wireless Internet, the overall implications of this technology are much broader. See how this could shake up the cellular world and usher in a new breed of software, devices, and business applications. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Broadband, Sprint Communications, Mobile Broadband, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Can virtualization help when times get tough?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- A quick note on Columbus Day
- It's Columbus Day here in the States, so quite a few of us are off. I'm going to consider it a holiday and take the day off from blogging. I do have an interview with Joe Hartley, Sun's VP of Global Education and Healthcare, today, so check back...
- Tags: Holiday, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Virtualization, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Benefits, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- MySpace launches ad platform for small businesses
- MySpace on Monday will unveil a targeted ad platform called MyAds, a beta designed to enable smaller advertisers to use its HyperTargeting technology. HyperTargeting is the MySpace platform used by its larger advertisers. With MyAds, MySpace is trying to tap into smaller advertisers that can be used...
- Tags: Advertisement, Small Business, MySpace, Advertiser, MyAds, HyperTargeting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Six money-saving secrets to help stretch your tech budget
- The recent collapse of worldwide financial markets has everyone on edge. If you're like most people, tough times have you looking around at ways to cut back on spending. You might be tempted to impose a freeze on all new purchases of hardware and software, but that draconian strategy only...
- Tags: Software, Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Office, Discount, Product, Price, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, RSS, Management, Hardware, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
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