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- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department
- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic departmentDigital Learning ApartheidDigital Learning ApartheidCharlie Guy, M.Ed.Silent EpidemicAccording to a recent report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, there exists today.......... ... a high school dropout epidemic in America. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students' and nearly one half of all blacks,...
- Tags: learner, at-Risk
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Mashing up education
- Writing on the Connectivism Blog, George Siemens considers the obvious question rarely asked: How will the same forces that have unsettled music, film, government, and corporate America deal with education? it just strikes me that as educators, we are not grasping or prepared for the depth of...
- Tags: learner, textbook
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
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- Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?
- Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?Preconceived notions....I strongly disagree with your views. I work with inner city kids in Atlanta, you'll be amazed how connected thses kids are and how knowledgeable they are when it comes to computers and technology in general. The benefits is enormous...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, Apple Macintosh, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Enough already with the Luddite schools
- Enough already with the Luddite schoolsI think middle school is better for tech than primary.I would rather see hand written reports up to and including 4th grade. Technology is great but so far cognitive scientists have not created a device that rivals the human brain. If you don't develop all...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Oxford French Minidictionary (Smartphone) (exe)
- Includes English-French and French-English dictionaries and over 100,000 words, phrases and translations. The Oxford French Minidictionary is designed to present essential information of the core French and English vocabulary in accessible format, providing the user with a fast track to clear and effective communication. The dictionary is an effective and...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile System, Smartphone, Oxford French Minidictionary, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-17
- So what about mobile labs?
- So what about mobile labs?Doesn't scaleIf you've got one or two carts in a smallish school, it can work pretty well, in part because using them is a special event. If you've got, say four or five carts in a school, it is pretty much a full time job...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile lab, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Speak Text (exe)
- Text to speech, read aloud file list, text to mp3, batch convert text files to MP3 files. Natural voices provide you excellent voice. It integrates with MS Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, IE and Explorer, lets you direct listen to text in documents, web pages, emails etc. Transfer MP3 to your player...
- Tags: Voice, MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- An Ed Tech laptop rant
- Sorry, folks...as much as I am a supporter of cheap laptops and hardware for kids in developing countries and wherever else it makes sense to have them, I'm fed up with the religion, the politics, and the ridiculous misconceptions that surround them. I'm afraid it's time for a good...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Programming, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Quanta Computers, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Linux, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Oxford French Minidictionary for Palm OS (exe)
- Includes English-French and French-English dictionaries and over 100,000 words, phrases and translations. The Oxford French Minidictionary is designed to present essential information of the core French and English vocabulary in accessible format, providing the user with a fast track to clear and effective communication. The dictionary is an effective and...
- Tags: Operating System, Palm Inc., Mobile System, Vocabulary, Oxford French Minidictionary, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-21
- Toyota simulator aims to prevent traffic deaths
- Toyota simulator aims to prevent traffic deaths1970 Impala with worn tires - ala tugboat styleSimple solution. Hit me and bounce.Or, better still, stop giving out driver licenses like candy. My daughter failed her drivers test the first time out (62%), so the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division employee coached...
- Tags: Policies and procedures, sticker, Toyota Motor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- MyET-MyCT (exe)
- MyET-MyCT is like a personal tutor that can help you learn English and Chinese through speaking practices. The unique and award-winning technology, "Automatic Speech Analysis System" (ASAS©), can analyze your English or Chinese speech on pronunciation, pitch, timing and emphasis, and then pinpoint problems to individual sounds. After you speak,...
- Tags: MyET-MyCT
- Software downloads 2007-11-13
- Chinotes Star9 (exe)
- Chinotes-Star9 features Star9 Chinese Input Method which mimics handwriting over the keypad on the right of a PC keyboard. It is a stroke-based Chinese writing method which helps a Chinese learner to master Chinese character writing mechanisms. To speed up writing, its innovative feature, triple-key-input, allows three keys being pressed...
- Tags: Stroke, HanWJ, Keyboards, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-11-08
- F# becomes a first-class citizen
- F# becomes a first-class citizenWhat about mono? NTNTShut up, fool.ntOn the other handAll the # languages are better than VB.Man, you really are WAY BEHIND.Can you say mono? How about Moonlght?another proprietary hook from M$OSS won't use any of the languages ending in #.They are wortless to begin with.F#!...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft development tools, .NET, Programming languages, Development tools, Middleware, Mathmatica, Mono, functional language, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- HSK Concise Chinese Learning Dictionary (zip)
- It s a free software, contains all HSK character and word. It is designed to help Chinese learner easily master Chinese character and word. Users can share their questions, knowledge and tips on the HSK character and word through this software. Version 1.03 is a bug fixing release.
- Tags: Character, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- Leveraging Linux to sell yourself
- Leveraging Linux to sell yourselfSo what you're saying here....... is be seen as something other than a timer-server arriving at 9.00 and departing at 5.00 monday - friday and opportunities will follow?Well of course. If you do *anything* that makes you look like you actually give a d*mn, then you'll...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Leveraging Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- Apple's Spotlight: keywords are so '90s
- Is Vista any better?With massive storage comes massive, unstructured data: needle in a cybernetic haystack. Search technology is the limiting factor for human access of massive data. Keyword search works if there aren't too many wordsPersonally, the whole keyword search thing is losing its charm, not to mention utility, as...
- Tags: Infrastructure, Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Oxford French Minidictionary for Window (exe)
- Includes English-French and French-English dictionaries and over 100,000 words, phrases and translations. The Oxford French Minidictionary is designed to present essential information of the core French and English vocabulary in accessible format, providing the user with a fast track to clear and effective communication. The dictionary is an effective and...
- Tags: Mobile, Window, Mobile System, Dictionary, Oxford French Minidictionary
- Software downloads 2007-02-08
- Open CourseWare movement grows across planet
- It sounds like a Utopian vision - a high-quality, free education for everyone - but thats precisely what MIT and other prestigious universities are doing by participating in the The OpenCourseWare movement, a movement that puts all coursework online for anyone to peruse, reports The Christian Science Monitor. ...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT OCW, OpenCourseWare
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Computers in Education
- Ive been trying to understand what role computers could play in education - and Ive come up with a couple of answers Id like to try out on you. There seem to be two main functions that are applicable across almost all educational levels - the exceptions being pre-kindergarten...
- Tags: General, Unanswered questions
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Scary IT: Ministry of suspicious walks
- Ever walked down a deserted street at night and had that eery feeling you're being watched? If you live in London, there's every chance you are. The UK has more CCTV cameras (5 million) per head of population (60 million) than any other nation. It's estimated that a Londoner going...
- Tags: camera, CCTV Cameras
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
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