The program will be used to determine how effective iPads can be as tools to enhance learning as well as how such mobile devices can be integrated into the workplace.
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The iPad goes to college this fall - CNN.com - 12 views
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The university has already identified one class where the textbook in ePub format costs $100 less than the dead-tree version.
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there is potential for cost savings as well
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FCC heralds a new era of 'super Wi-Fi' - CNN.com - 5 views
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The souped-up system could result in wireless internet connections coming to rural areas, fewer "dead zones" in Wi-Fi networks and the ability to transfer large files easily between machines and computers in hospitals, the FCC says.
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This will be looked at in hindsight as a HUGE step in making the Internet available to more people in the US, I believe.
Obama: 'I screwed up' on Daschle appointment - CNN.com - 0 views
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Daschle, the former Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, withdrew earlier Tuesday as news that he failed to pay some taxes in the past continued to stir opposition on Capitol Hill.
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"I think I screwed up," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. "And I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again."
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"Look, the only measure of my success as president when people look back five years from now or nine years from now is going to be, did I get this economy fixed.
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In the Headlines, 2/4. Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle must resign due to concern over not paying taxes. Obama apologizes.
Commentary: Don't prop up failing schools - CNN.com - 0 views
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Story HighlightsChristensen, Horn: Federal spending on schools is set to jumpThey say it would be a big mistake to use money to let failing schools resist changeCo-authors: Federal money should go to innovators challenging traditional waysThey say technology should be used to create new forms of schooling
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The most likely result of this stimulus will be to give our schools the luxury of affording not to change.
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Fourth, direct more funds for research and development to create student-centric learning software. Just a fraction of 1 percent of the $600 billion in K-12 spending from all levels currently goes toward R&D. The federal government should reallocate funds so we can begin to understand not just what learning opportunities work best on average but also what works for whom and under what circumstance. It is vital to fund learning software that captures data about the student and the efficacy of different approaches so we can connect these dots.
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Christensen joins a growing list of education commentators who are opposed to Obama policies
An Apple tablet could pit iTunes against Amazon - CNN.com - 1 views
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What can Apple do better with e-books? For textbooks or anthologies, Apple can give iTunes users the ability to download individual chapters, priced between a few cents to a few bucks each.
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It would be similar to how you can currently download individual song tracks from an album. It might even have the same earthshaking potential to transform an entire industry by refocusing it on the content people actually want instead of the bundles that publishers want them to buy.
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College students would love this: Teachers rarely assign an entire textbook, so they would save hundreds of dollars by downloading only a few chapters of each textbook.
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What can Apple do better with e-books? For textbooks or anthologies, Apple can give iTunes users the ability to download individual chapters, priced between a few cents to a few bucks each.
Subject Matters: Why students fall behind on history - CNN.com - 22 views
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"I think they learn information by itself, in isolation," Frazer said of his students. "But putting the big picture together is not happening."
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History is not an area that requires testing under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, so it often gets shortchanged
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"The only issue that I have with what I teach is, I wish I had time to go deeper,"
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Great article that paints our current educational direction toward trivia vs. deep understanding
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - 0 views
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This is why librarians--the info lit experts on a school campuses--are still important. Many times they are the professionals thinking about and calling attention to infolit topics like evaluation.
Gupta: Cell phones, brain tumors and a wired earpiece - The Chart - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views
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Thought this is a good idea.
Google+: 10 things it does better - CNN.com - 42 views
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Perhaps the greatest selling point of Google+ is the most obvious, however: It's new. The opportunity to start afresh with an up-to-date list of friends, no spam, no ads and an uncluttered interface is a novel experience for those of us who have spent years maintaining profiles on other websites.
Negroponte: One Laptop Per Child is now a $75 Android Tablet - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech - 44 views
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No keyboard :( but a fantastic pricing. I want a couple (one for my son, one for me). I hope they deliver on their promise. And that CPU better deliver all the stuff it says too.
Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader - Feb. 27, 2009 - 0 views
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Hearst to try and stop newspapers from dying...with version of e-reader like the Kindle.