Posts Tagged ‘computer’

The Learning Factory

K-12 classrooms irrelevant to today’s environment. By David Warlick. There is a commonly told story, usually attributed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seymour Papert. It states that if a doctor from the 1890s were to suddenly be time-warped into a modern twenty-first century hospital,...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Cover stories, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Where’s the bus? Two students solve the problem

It’s a question heard at countless bus stops: “Have you seen the number 48 go by?” Cold, impatient bus riders stamp their feet, check their watches, and wonder if that bus is ever going to come. But in Seattle, a cell phone and the ingenuity of two University of Washington (UW) students...
April 15th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Living | Read More