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LEAKED: New Details and the Price of Google's Nexus One - 0 views

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    The Nexus One, also known as the Google Phone, has been making a stir this month after details began to emerge about the project.Earlier today, we learned that the phone will likely be revealed on January 5th at a Google press conference (which we will be covering).
Carol Clark

OLPC shows off absurdly thin XO-3 concept tablet for 2012 (update: XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 c... - 0 views

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    Still have a bit of faith left for the OLPC project.Good, you're gonna need it: designer Yves Behar has unveiled his latest concept design for the now-aiming-for-$75 vision, and it's all screen.Keeping with the newfound trend toward tablets, the XO-3 is an 8.5 x 11 touchscreen, coupled with a little folding ring in the corner for grip and a camera in the back.
Carol Clark

Twitter May Be Profitable - No, Seriously! - GigaOM - 0 views

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    We, like so many others, have joked about Twitter's non-existent business model and its frothy billion-dollar valuation.Apparently we might have to stop that - at least for now.The San Francisco-based micromessaging company is said to be profitable, according to a report in Bloomberg that quotes someone close to the company.
Carol Clark

Enjoy Making Video Conferencing with Voip | ISTNC - Information Technology Resources - 0 views

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    If you haven't yet thought of buying yourself an internet phone, then you should now, because it has so much to offer - more than what your ordinary phone
Victor Hugo Rojas B.

Nov/Dec 2009 Issue - Multimedia & Internet@Schools Magazine - 0 views

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    "The Educators' Guide to Electronic Tools and Resources for K-12"
Barbara Lindsey

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 12-12-09-Cell Phones as Classroom Learning T... - 5 views

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    Resources for Liz Kolb's Classroom 2.0 Live presentation on December 12, 2009.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Fossil Fieldtrip Guide: fossil, poster, practice | Glogster - 1 views

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    a web2.0 poster that will help you start your fieldtrip planning activities
Alexandre Enkerli

http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390.print - 2 views

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  • Silicon Valley
  • World Economic Forum
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  • emotional resonance
  • we all know and value
  • looked good
  • aspired to
  • countries without comprehensive electrical grids
  • soured
  • underperformed
  • 50 percent of staff were being laid off and a major restructuring was under way
  • the project seems nearly dead in the water
  • And that may be great news for children in the developing world.
  • Innovate
  • Negroponte and other techno-luminati
  • lobbied national governments and international agencies
  • technology optimists
  • take control of their education
  • There's no question that improving education in the developing world is necessary.
  • trending dramatically upward
  • school attendance
  • highly respected center
  • they don't seem to be learning much
  • international science exam
  • powerful argument
  • the goal is improving education for children in the developing world, there are plenty of better, and cheaper, alternatives.
  • instinctive appeal
  • precious little evidence
  • circumstantial evidence
  • The OLPC concept has been pioneered in a number of school districts in the United States over the last decade
  • the technology didn't work any better than a normal classroom teacher
  • the teachers simply weren't using the computers
  • few experimental studies to show a positive impact from the use of computers
  • substituting computers for teachers
  • supplement
  • Negroponte has explicitly derided
  • It must be said
  • academic
  • teachers limited access to the computers
  • had not been adequately trained
  • not silver bullets
  • surveys of students
  • parents rolling their eyes
  • evaluation of an OLPC project in Haiti
  • Repeated calls and e-mails to OLPC and Negroponte seeking comment on OLPC did not receive a response
  • ironic
  • a leader in
  • the Third World
  • cheap
  • proven successful
  • etting children in developing countries into school and helping them learn more while they are there
  • There are
  • deworming
  • technology-based approaches to improving student learning in the developing world
  • show more promise than one laptop per child
  • the J-PAL co-founder
  • Remedial education
  • A study in Kenya
  • expensive
  • quarter of the cost
  • cheaper
  • it didn't matter
  • co-founder of J-PA
  • $2 per month
  • $3 per month
  • $2.20
  • 30 percent increase in lifetime earnings
  • $4 per student per year
  • 50 cents per child per year
  • tens of millions of dollars
  • children
  • children
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