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K-12 textbooks in for a big change

K-12 textbooks in for a big changeWhat a radical conceptI hear that some state called "Massachusetts" has a State technology institute where the professors (who might also be "subject-matter experts") have been putting courseware on the Web using open-redistribution licensing.Be CarefulText books are better for learning from, because the source...

Tags: Text Book, textbook, K-12, K-12 textbook

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

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While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited

Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-30

OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?As an educator...my opinion carriers a bit of weight due to living in the trenches with the students. Although the idea of a PDA type device to carry textbook information is both logical and practical in an ideal world. The world of education...

Tags: Worksheets

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problem

U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problemPlagiarism is good ..."I think the majority of students who engage in plagiarism do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own merit."Here's the issue: you go through school being told that plagiarism is...

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Plagiarism, plagiarism, Web

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

Unix in education

Unix in educationRutabaga?OK, I'll bite. What's the meaning of "rutabaga" in the technical world of Unix? Or, were you just blowing off the question?Explain ThisTry to explain to a "business minded" person why having to restart an application or reboot a server on a nightly basis is a very bad...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, instructor

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Publisher's digital curriculum being adopted in Calif.

In an experiment that could set an educational trend, some California elementary schools are using a custom-built digital history curriculum in lieu of traditional textbooks, reports eSchool News. The innovative history program called History/Social Science for California click here for video is a product from educational publisher Pearson...

Tags: Pearson, curriculum, digitaL

Blog posts 2006-08-17

To save Net Neutrality, here's why The Torrents must die- and then be reborn

Two weeks ago, when fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou and I started having our lively debate about net neutrality legislation, George pointed out that because Bit Torrents and allied technology (a.k.a. "The Torrents") are such a giant bandwidth-suck on the Internet, that the huge amount of bandwidth they consume...

Tags: Torrents

Blog posts 2006-06-23