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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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."...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
Additional Resources
- Are IT grads learning the right skills?
- Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment
- Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- National Science Board: get with it, U.S.
- An advisory board for the National Science Founcation, the National Science Board NSB has added it voice to the chorus saying, "Enough with the oil and coal, already." The NSB suggests moving America toward a more sustainable energy supply. The NSB release says, "The NSB recommends...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Google Summer of Code opens for applications today
- Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Leslie Hawthorn, the Program Manager for Google's Summer of Code. For those of you not familiar with the project, Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- International University Uses Microsoft Certifications to Drive Employability and Job Opportunities
- The field of computing was still young in 1965 when SUPINFO was founded as the first French private higher-education school dedicated to Information Technology IT. Known today as SUPINFO International University, SUPINFO has stayed at the forefront of IT education as it has grown into an international university network that...
- Case studies 2009-03-18
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