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Michelle Krill

How Is Open Source Special? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

  • It’s this transparency that lowers the barriers to entry and participation.
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      This could easily be carried over to transparency in the classroom.
  • reputation is a significant resource
  • What’s the downside to open source?
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  • As important as, or more important than, the technical infrastructure is the community infrastructure.
Michelle Krill

Ubiquitous Computing - 0 views

  • ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
  • Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality.
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    Ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
Michelle Krill

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 0 views

  • ore than a decade ago, schools began investing heavily in laptops at the urging of school boards and parent groups who saw them as the key to the 21st century classroom. Following Maine’s lead in 2002, states including Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota helped buy laptops for thousands of students through statewide initiatives like “Classrooms for the Future
  • Classrooms for the Future
  • Many school administrators and teachers say laptops in the classroom have motivated even reluctant students to learn, resulting in higher attendance and lower detention and dropout rates.
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  • But Mr. Warschauer, who supports laptop programs, said schools like Liverpool might be giving up too soon because it takes time to train teachers to use the new technology and integrate it into their classes.
  • “Where laptops and Internet use make a difference are in innovation, creativity, autonomy and independent research,”
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