Computers are the communication device that dominates modern society -- this
list is evidence of that. Therefore, teachers have a responsibility to
learn how to use it and incorporate it into their curriculum. I teach
freshman
comp. in college, and require all students to submit their es
I agree with David about the the training and pedagogical support of
teachers. While on the NII, I tried to talk the other members into a series of
scheduled professional development opportunities for teachers that would be
national.
We did evolve with the help of Linda Roberts some strategic p
I have posted about this before. I once encountered a teacher returning
to college in her late forties or early fifties who was quite confirmed
and proud of the fact that she and computers had done a thorough and
complete job of keeping their distance and not meeting for any purpose.
This teacher
Hi Bonnie
I think it is an great to produce computer at that price, but I also think if
the manufactures wanted to refurbish computer would be better for the poor
people and environment do you think?
Telecentro Trajetoria Mundial
http://spaces.msn.com/telecentrotrajetoria/
EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA
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My thoughts on all of this are pretty well documented, but I'll just
mention briefly - again - that the cost of the laptops viewed alone may
seem worthwhile to some and not worthwhile to others. However, when
looked at in the context of a national economy, I find the Negroponte
initiative indef
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> I read your comm
Bonnie Bracey Sutton writes:
> I worry about extraordinary resources like those at the Exploratorium,
> and at www.eotepic, and the use of and understanding of more than the
> internet. Like the Forum on Nanotechnology, or
> http://www.exploratorium.edu/nanoscape/forums.html.
Hi Bonnie,
This is
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> I read your comment as suggesting that teachers are incapable of technical
> self-development due to extraneous factors (or have I misunderstood?). A lot
> of the work we did with Telecentre's in the '90's involved working wit
Bonnie Bracey Sutton writes:
> I disagree when we are talking about teachers, who have already
> been labled incompetent and out of touch, and who may know the
> pedagogy, but not the latest in use of technology, with time being
> a factor, and testing the gun to the head.
Hi Bonnie,
I read you
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> Sharing the reservations of a lot of people about Negroponte's proposal,
> nonetheless I don't see a lack of training as a total inhibitor to success.
> People can develop without structured training.
>
I disagree when we a
> I understand that Don. But you can't be *sure* that will happen.
> Early adopters don't always make effective helpers; in my many
> years working in community technology settings, I have seen that
> over and over
Hi Steve,
True enough, although we can never be 'sure' of the success of any
in
Surya,
Great links! Thanks a lot for bringing both of those projects to my
attention...I had never heard of the first and only vaguely heard of the
second as a movie I should see when I have some free time.
While I'm very happy to learn about these projects, I still have a
problem with the idea t
> I've never seen a piece
> of hardware so simple that a child in a third world
> nation (who is completely digitally illiterate)
> could intuitively repair. A child who
> has never seen a laptop before cannot intuitively
> use a mouse/trackpad.
I have!
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/storie
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> While I certainly sympathize with ipods as micro-supercom
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While I certainly sympathize with ipods as micro-supercomputers, much
older
- and thereby much cheape
> Even today, in my much more limited connection to electronic
> technology, I field email from people who are asking me questions
> such as, "Why is the web page on my screen bigger than the
> screen? It won't all fit on there!"
Hi Steve,
I think in some respects your observation helps answer
e
seen enough to think there is more than coolness happening. It feels a
little like early Google.
Steve Snow
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>> Stephen,
>
> The Ip
May be I can share an experience from a village in Bihar, India, arguably a
state that has slid further behind where it was a couple decades ago
according to most indices of development..
My team sent a couple PCs to one of its districts that was most notoriously
high on criminality index.. That
is more than coolness happening. It feels a
little like early Google.
Steve Snow
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Stephen,
The Ipod is definitely an intriguing tool for t
Sabi ni Dave noong Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:55:22 -0500:
> The Ipod is definitely an intriguing tool for training (I should
> convince my boss to buy me one for, er, training purposes). I'm
> wondering how long it'll be before someone comes up with a Linux distro
http://www.ipodlinux.org/
--
Daniel O.
> Training is the linchpin that holds everything together. Without
> it, as well as intense, ongoing support, this is a pipedream
> inside a shibboleth inside a folly.
Hi Steve, all,
Appropriate training offers enormous opportunity, yet I wonder if we might
not also acknowledge the value of sel
On Jul 10, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Stephen Snow wrote:
Training is the linchpin that holds everything together. Without it,
as well as intense, ongoing support, this is a pipedream inside a shibboleth
inside a folly.
eSchool news for today points to Bob Sipchen's column in the Los Angeles
Time
"he seemed to say that they are making the computer so simple to fix
that the children can take care of the problems."
Bonnie,
That statement, if Negropointe is making it, packs an awful lot of
promise with not much substantial detail (yet). I've never seen a piece
of hardware so simple that a ch
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> This is a very grand vision, no doubt, but there crucial points that may
> be brushed over in the rhetoric. I'll point out one example, since it
> was one I was looking for: "The children will maintain the laptops
> themselves".
The conference was so intense that I never got to even do a workshop. I did
attend SIG meetings and the digital equity meeting, and the other important
meetings. I did three sessions of Global Gallery but I did attend the
fireworks,
and a few dinners. I am sorry that I missed to meet the people
somewhere else.
Steve Snow
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This is a very grand vision, no doubt, but there crucial points that may
be brushed over in the rhetoric. I'll point out one example, since it
was one I was looking for: "The children will maintain the laptops
themselves".
How?
Who is going to train a child to maintain a laptop? Is Negropointe
fu
FROM: Paul Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (858) 673-4269
DATE: Sunday, July 09, 2006
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Dear BBracey
More peer to peer teaching has to happen, and the children have to help with
the learning.
I saw that sentence in your digitaldivide
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