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"My 14 year old daughter is a texting addict! She will even sit and text when our family is at a restaurant. It drives me nuts. If I tell her to stop, she just does it under the table. It's like this little secret that we can't be in on, plus it's just plain rude.

It is no surprise that children are using more computers, video games, and cell phones. What is surprising is that they aren't just using Dad's stuff. Many kids have their own laptops - as evidenced by the sales of Intel's Classmate PC.

Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2011 6:15 am By CHRISTINA GUENTHNER, Argus-Press Staff Writer The Argus-Press | SHAFTSBURG - Students within Perry Public Schools are experiencing some of the newest educational tools available thanks to a portion of the school improvement bond passed by the community in February.

South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.

James Dukes students are learning through technology in their day-to-day classroom situations. Official district enrollment set at 6,130 students. Students at James Dukes Elementary School are moving ahead in 21st century technology, a fact that Principal Pauline Leavitt emphasized in a PowerPoint presentation to the school board at its Oct.

A private liberal arts college in Oregon took Apple's iPad through its paces to test its value as a a tool for learning inside the classroom and out. The evaluation followed a pilot of Amazon's first-generation Kindle, which the college eventually decided against. Reed College is trying to find a way to go completely paperless in it's classrooms. It is interesting to note that this professor feels that students would be less likely to check email or log onto social networking sites on an ipad because they are smaller and more difficult to hide behind than a laptop.

This article is written in opposition to using technology in education as a shortcut. Essentially, the author is arguing that technology is what you make of it; there is no replacement for good teachers, and that technology should not be used as a stand-in for teachers. He offers rebuttals for the reasons to use technology in the classroom

This article offers some examples of how technology can be incorporated into a classroom to help students with disabilities.

Virtual reality can work for educators as a tool in assisting students to become immersed in a learning environment where they can participate in their own learning in a technology based environment. My name is John Shaffer. I am a seventh grade Science teacher in Academy School District Twenty in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

More than one wag has pointed out that someone awakening from a 50 year nap in a school would think she had been asleep for a few years at most, long enough to see fashions change, but that's about it. Otherwise, schools would be pretty much the same as when she fell asleep a half-century ago.

Student Inclusion = Technology Infusion by Sylvia Martinez and Dennis Harper Generation Y (Gen Y) provides a research-proven methodology designed to infuse technology throughout the school. Students work with teachers to bring effective technology into the classrooms and libraries. The resulting collaboration provides the students with project-based learning and the teachers with on-site sustainable professional development.

(CNN) -- Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos borrowed from Dr. Evil's master plan for the technology behind his newly announced Kindle Touch e-reader: It uses frickin' laser beams. Introduced on Wednesday, the Kindle Touch will be the first Amazon e-reader with a touch screen.

Australian scientists have invented a new breed of robots called Lingodroids, programmed to make, use, and share language. The bots can coin words to describe places they have been, places they want to go, and plans for getting there.