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Laptops Evicted From Lecture Halls: Professors Slam 'Wide Web Of Diversions'
Huffington Post
| washingtonpost.com: | A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTub...
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Laptop Revolution Could Save Schools Money, Space
redOrbit
Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 08:50 CST | Universities around the country are struggling with shrinking budgets, even as they need to cater to the needs of an increasing number of students. New research from North Carolina State University shows that one way to cut down on costs, and simultaneou...
Distance ed students forming college clubs online
USA Today
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |  INSIDE HIGHER ED | For more breaking news, features and commentary from the world of higher education, visit: . By Steve Kolowich, Feeling isolated as an online student? Join the club. | ...
Quinn seeks income tax hike for schools
Seattle Times
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - | Calling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just one percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education. | Th...
Delhi University launches Digital Learning Curriculum
DNA India
| New Delhi: With an aim to empower its students and faculty members with digital skills, Delhi University today launched a Digital Learning Curriculum in collaboration with Microsoft India. | Vice chancellor Deepak Pental launched the programme whic...
Labour edge ahead on education, BBC poll suggests
BBC News
| The Conservatives are failing to win over voters unsatisfied with Labour's record on education, a poll for the BBC's Newsnight programme suggests. | Of the 865 adults in England who were questioned, 25% said the Conservatives had the best education...
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ASCL conference hears that internet makes teaching children harder
The Times
| Children are harder to motivate with traditional teaching methods in the internet age as they expect instant results, a head teachers' leader said yesterday. | Websites and compu...
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Making a case for keeping laptops out of the classroom
Philadelphia Daily News
| Tim Clement | is a graduate of Drexel University | and Lower Merion High School | The Web cam imbroglio involving the Lower Merion School District has rightfully raised issues of...
Children pose for a picture inside their tent at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Friday, March 5, 2010.
AP / Esteban Felix
With Haitian Schools in Ruins, Children Are in Limbo
The New York Times
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of schools in and around this devastated capital could remain closed for months or never reopen, according to Haitian and United Nations e...
General Assembly update: Senate approves charter, online school bills
The Roanoke Times
| Also: | RICHMOND -- The Senate has approved bills that would give the state a role in the creation of charter, online and virtual schools despite objections from some that doing so would divert money from public schools. | The Senate voted 27-12 Tu...
W.Va. education department awards contract for food service software to Texas company
Star Tribune
| CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The West Virginia Department of Education has awarded a contract to a Texas company to improve its food service operations at schools across the state. | Houston-based Cybersoft Technologies Inc. said Tuesday that its Primero so...
Bastyr U. absorbs midwifery college
Business Journal
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People walk past the Ala Moana branch of Bank of Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 3, 2008 in Honolulu. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked at Bank of Hawaii starting as a bank secretary working her way up to one of the first female bank vice presidents in Hawaii . Dunham, who was 86, died late Sunday night.
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Bank of Hawaii Offering Coupons Free Online
ABC News
HONOLULU March 10, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | Bank of Hawaii says it's come up with a way to generate more business for its clients. | The bank has launched a free, online virtual coupon book that offers a wide range of deals in various categories, including automotive, clothing, dining, entertainment and travel. The coupons can be found at t...
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In this combo made from file photos, the IBM logo is seen in front of the company's manufacturing plant in Essex Junction, Vt., left, and the Sun Microsystems logo is seen at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif
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IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones
Canada Dot Com
       | HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate. | As growth in developed markets such as Europe, Japan and United States has stalled, the wireless industry is looking especially toward the elderly who have so far thought th...



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