Posts Tagged ‘internet access’

Bridging the digital divide

Alabama provides students 21st century skills. By John Norton. Kurtavia, a first grader at George Hall Elementary in inner-city Mobile, Alabama, sits at a computer bigger than she is and strikes several keys. A window pops up on the screen and when she clicks the “play” button, we see a colorful...
November 12th, 2009 | 01 (6) 2009 / html, Learning | Read More

Sneaky vacations

Without letting your boss, company, clients know. By Bridget Ayers. All of us with office jobs dream of vacations to sunny beaches and happy climes. Sipping from a drink with an umbrella in it and lounging in a beach chair. Well, you don’t have to limit yourself to one getaway a year. If you’re mobile,...
November 5th, 2009 | 01 (6) 2009 / html, Working | Read More

Internet access – Informal learning …

… leveler for excluded groups. Informal adult learning should target the socially excluded, and make the most of new technologies to level the learning playing field. This message comes from UK Online Centres, which recently welcomed Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills John...
September 2nd, 2009 | 01 (4) 2009 / html, Learning | Read More

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