4 posts tagged “technology”
Students at every level, from grade school to grad school, face
dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital
technologies. PCs, the Internet, whiteboards, presentation software,
and other high-tech devices, once considered educational aides for the
library, the media lab, and the home, are increasingly a central part
of the classroom curriculum itself, with results that have yet to be
fully understood.
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/brave-new-classroom-20-new-blog-forum/
I was reading Dan Weinreb's interesting article on "Why did symbolics fail?" and came across an excellent reference to Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software essay.
it is official. i own a brand spankin' new iPhone. activated it yesterday. synched my whole life to it in a matter of minutes (from my mac pro). the only thing that allowed me to sleep last nite was the fact that i ran the battery all the way down from a full charge.
