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giving educators and students an unprecedented opportunity for easy self-expression and reflection that anyone can access--and to which anyone can respond.

There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher,

So, what makes a good blog? The quality of its ideas is important, panelists said, and so is the personality of the blog and its writer. It's important for this personality to come through, so that "you really feel like you're having a human interaction,"

CAI (computer-assisted instruction) approach to education which was strictly content-based and driven by behavioral objectives.

Fifteen minutes per day on a machine should suffice for each of these programs, the machines being free for other students for the rest of each day. (It is probably because traditional methods are so inefficient that we have been led to suppose that education requires such a prodigious part of a young person's day).

The upper layers of the OSI model deal with application issues and generally are implemented only in software. The highest layer, the application layer, is closest to the end user. Both users and application layer processes interact with software applications that contain a communications component. The term upper layer is sometimes used to refer to any layer above another layer in the OSI model. The lower layers of the OSI model handle data transport issues. The physical layer and the data link layer are implemented in hardware and software. The lowest layer, the physical layer, is closest to the physical network medium (the network cabling, for example) and is responsible for actually placing information on the medium.

Internetwork addresses identify devices separately or as members of a group. Addressing schemes vary depending on the protocol family and the OSI layer. Three types of internetwork addresses are commonly used: data link layer addresses, Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, and network layer addresses.

A data link layer address uniquely identifies each physical network connection of a network device. Data-link addresses sometimes are referred to as physical or hardware addresses.

"You know what an MMO is, right?"

The challenge is making a persistent online world that's both safe and compelling.

Cogs," robots wearing business suits who want to take away the fun of Toontown and create a bleak, industrial existence.

MMORPG

"We don't expect everyone to pay," we're told. "They're valuable to us if they're playing: they love the franchise, they're living in the world. It's good for the Disney company to keep this brand on the radar."

This includes a software system as well as human monitors that look for bad behavior, filter out inappropriate language in our chat systems before it can be seen by others, and prevent children from inadvertently exchanging personal information that could allow them to be identified in the real world, such as name, address, phone numbers, etc. When we find people breaking our rules, we apply levels of progressive discipline."

More Internet-enabled phones will be sold and activated in 2009 than personal computers.

Today, the computer for the rest of us is a phone.

Our infrastructure has to keep up with this growth just to maintain our current level of quality, but to actually make search smarter, our index and infrastructure need to grow at a pace FASTER than the web.

The MDF is the "Main Distribution Frame" where all the data converges, and the IDF's are "Intermediate Distribution Frames" where data goes out to the various machines.

“The art of thinking is being lost,” he said. “Because people can type in a word and find a source and think that’s the be all end all.”

Plus, the 1 to 1 solution that Apple proposed included comprehensive professional development. We knew this would be critical to the success of our program, and would otherwise have been an additional, major expense.

They’re especially excited because they know we’re behind them all the way.”

This technology initiative provided every student with a district-owned laptop computer for use during the school year, both in the classroom and at home. In addition, all six district buildings are wireless environments.

The second phase of the program implementation included intensive and ongoing training of the faculty with the goal of integrating technology into all curricular areas. As a result of the faculty cross-curricular training, students receive instruction in the use of applications and resources in the context of the learning environment, rather than in isolation. In addition to content instruction, students simultaneously are able to expand their digital literacy, further develop curiosity and creativity, and benefit from the experience of teaming and collaboration with peers, both locally and internationally.

Community support for the initiative has been an important part of the successful implementation.

Such disappointments are the latest example of how technology is often embraced by philanthropists and political leaders as a quick fix, only to leave teachers flummoxed about how best to integrate the new gadgets into curriculums.

Last month, the United States Department of Education released a study showing no difference in academic achievement between students who used educational software programs for math and reading and those who did not.

a survey of district teachers and parents found that one-fifth of Matoaca students rarely or never used their laptops for learning.

paradigm of interaction that I call everyware.

and is delivered in a manner appropriate to our location and context.

videogames (arguably one of the most sophisticated forms of information technology to date)

five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.

power-performanced learning