Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Chicago Tribune published an article this weekend about the impact that the Internet can have on the lives of people who are trying to make ends meet. The article mentions the WiMax rollout in Chicago, and the Lt. Governor of Illinois' recently introduced ordinance to provide 15,000 low-cost laptops ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
The teachermate is a handheld computer, like a Nintendo Gameboy or a Sony PSP, and they have been in use in Chicago public school classrooms for the past school year. The Teachers' Podcast did a review of the device last month.
A couple weeks ago I got the opportunity to see ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
I wrote a month ago about a school district in North Carolina that is using smart phones in class as a platform for learning.
Mobile devices could be a great way to integrate technology into the classroom. They are inexpensive, ubiquitous, and are designed for communication. A lot of kids have ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I spoke with Chicago Public Library's marketing director, Ruth Lednicer, about what they are doing for city residents. I asked her about the Cyber Explorer program, which pays college students to teach library patrons how to use the Internet, and about other ways the library is working on fulfilling ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Oxford professor and neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield, said children's brains are rotting from too much exposure to technology. In an interview for The Sunday Times Life & Style section about her life and work, Greenfield discusses her theory about the effect of video games and Internet Media exposure on the brain ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
A recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life project reveals that teens are writing more. Through 700 phone surveys and interviews with parents and teens aged 12 to 17, researchers discovered that all teens were writing for school and a vast majority enjoyed writing. Parents agreed that their ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
So what do kids do the on the Internet?
Warren Buckleitner, the editor of Children's Technology Review magazine, studied children in 10 different households who had access to high-speed Internet. Buckleitner put video cameras in the homes and had parents record how the kids used the Internet. He found that the ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
If technology is growing and changing at exponential rates how do people keep up with all the skills? Kids are great at intuitively picking these computer skills, its the adults that need the education.
This opinion piece at the Financial Times argues that continuing adult education is becoming so much more ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting op-ed up on their website about a Digital New Deal. With a recession and a lot of young people coming of age having used the Internet for most of their lives, the author, Helen De Michiel, argues that the government should start an ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The Teachermate is targeted at kindergarden through third grade.
The XO laptop is designed to be easy to learn for kids of all ages around the world
Intel's Classmate is slightly more powerful than the XO, but lacks custom software.
A new low-cost handheld computer called the Teachermate was introduced in March by ...
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