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- Education
- Teaching concepts and perspectives. Computer education includes computer systems and information systems. Contrast with training.
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- Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?
- The San Francisco Business Times ran a feature Friday on Michael Arrington, the brains behind TechCrunch. While not the most popular guy in the blogosphere, Arrington is well-respected in many business circles. As a result, when he announced that he was creating a new hardware company to crank...
- Tags: E-reader, Education, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- So how 'bout them universities?
- By and large, this blog focuses on K-12 educational issues, mostly because I live, eat, and breath K-12 educational technology. While I may talk about broader issues in technology (social media, for example, or Google's latest and greatest), it's usually in the context of how they might impact students...
- Tags: K-12, Education, University, Social Media, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- The Business Case for Leveraging Open Text Web Solutions Within Higher Education
- Academic institutions have a long reputation for being slower to adopt new technologies for their audiences. However, many schools are taking serious steps in improving the online experience they are providing. This white paper explores the unique needs of the higher education market, applying new tools & trends and specifically...
- Tags: Business Case, Education, Web, Open Text Corp., Oshyn, Productivity
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?
- Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- "The students don't think of it as learning"
- "The students don't think of it as learning"Daniel Floyd has it down extremely wellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0qRKjfX3sWatch. Discuss.JoeyRE: Sony PSPs in the classroomThe American system of learning has been failing since I was a kid 40 years ago. Every time I hear a President like George W. saying he intends on being "the...
- Tags: education
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Space race or education?
- Space race or education?Just FYIJust FYI, the Constellation program is the replacement for the Shuttle. There's no separate Shuttle replacement program.However, regarding Ares / Constellation, some like myself have been troubled by the program from the beginning. For more info I suggest forum.nasaspaceflight.com and www.directlauncher.comAs an architecture, I...
- Tags: Federal Department of Education, education, Space Race, NASA
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Space race or education?
- The US space program costs billions and billions of dollars. Wikipedia puts the figure at $17.3 billion for fiscal year 2008 and that number climbs to $18.7 billion in FY10. The US Department of Education has a budget just south of $70 billion (saying nothing of the state...
- Tags: Education, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- People Patching: Is User Education of Any Use at All?
- In general, the anti-malware community splits dramatically into two camps when it comes to the evergreen debate about the effectiveness of user education and security awareness as a protective measure. One camp argues that "If education was of any use, it would have worked by now": the other says that...
- Tags: Education, Security
- White papers 2009-04-16
- Austrian Ministry of Education - Volume Activation in a Diverse Environment
- The Austrian Ministry of Education MoE is a large educational institution committed to steering Austria's schools to new levels of achievement. A key strategy for the MoE is ensuring that Austrian students always have access to the most current software available. To this end, the MoE sought to deploy Windows...
- Tags: Education, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Austrian Ministry Of Education, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-14
- Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective
- Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...
- Tags: Education, Advisor, Technology, Clinton, Government, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Variquest proves it's OK to use paper sometimes
- Regular readers will know that I'm a pretty big tree hugger. I'm not quite as militant as my wife, but anywhere I can use technology to eliminate the use of paper, conserve resources, or otherwise migrate educational "stuff" whatever that might be online, I'm there. Thus,...
- Tags: Poster, Education, Graphics, Teacher, Printing, Variquest, Bumper Sticker, Printers, Document Management, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- 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
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?'we need a complete paradigm shift...'Then shift the money. Right now in Texas schools get money for how many pass the TAS test. So that's what is taught, How to pass the TAS test. Give the schools...
- Tags: math/science, education
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- I'm reading The World is Flat for a class I'm taking and finding it remarkably doom and gloom. While the book has been updated with a couple of editions, its context largely remains the 2000-2005 timeframe. Four years, of course, is forever in the digital age,...
- Tags: Education, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Foster plan for open source education
- Bill Foster right, the physicist and Democrat who succeeded former Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress, has what you might call a cunning open source plan. Any federal agency spending over $10 million on scientific education should put 2% of that money into creating open source materials, posting...
- Tags: Education, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- 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...
- Tags: Education, Job, Certification, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Training, SUPINFO International University, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-03-18
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for educationI agreeI read the other article and it seems that when he wants updates he wants revolutionary new features. It's good to have fancy effects and such but Ubuntu already has those. What I see that their doing is trying to define Ubuntu. Trying...
- Tags: Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a piece Monday on whether Ubuntu had plateaued, essentially cranking out service packs on their 6 month release schedule. What I want to know, though, is why this is a bad thing? What this means is that Ubuntu has reached an incredible state...
- Tags: Education, Ubuntu, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- NMC releases Horizon Report
- The New Media Consortium recently released their "Horizon Report", which, among other things, listed the top technologies to watch in the coming years in education. Although some of them are no-brainers (cloud computing, for example), others seem to be a bit of a stretch, while a...
- Tags: Education, Web, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Top education search terms in December 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. wikipedia 0.46% 2. dictionary 0.34% 3. funbrain 0.12% 4. yahoo answers 0.11% 5. dictionary.com 0.11% 6. thesaurus 0.07% 7. fafsa 0.06% 8. spanish translation 0.05% 9. quotes...
- Tags: Education, Hitwise, Yahoo, Wiki, Online Communications, NB
- Blog posts 2009-02-13

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