next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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Peter Crookes (Japan Times Online): “On [Princeton's] new PTB-DIP1, the user simply places an ordinary sheet of paper on top of the tablet and pens away using [sic]. The device ‘reads’ the handwriting with Myscript Note Basic software and converts it into either text files or images in the GIF or JPEG formats. The equivalent [...]
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Source: Marketing Charts, 7 Apr 2008.
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[HP Press Release:]
HP Introduces Full-function Mini-notebook PC for Education Market
PALO ALTO, April 8, 2008
To help schools offer affordable computing to every student, HP today introduced a full-function, mini-notebook PC priced starting under $500. Designed for the education market, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is flexible enough for students to use from the classroom to the [...]
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[Quotes from the site:] “Login to SOA [service oriented architectures] Jam. The SOA community wants to hear from you! Whether you have a technical or business slant; whether your role is analyst, architect, executive, manager, partner, or member of the press; your input contributes to the ongoing evolution of SOA.
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Andrew Careaga (Higher Ed Marketing): “What causes people to participate in social networks? Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s new book Groundswell (must purchase soon) may have the answer. Here’s[sic] are eight drivers of participation in social media, capsulized from that book. This is only a partial list, but a pretty good start[:] Keeping up friendships. [...]
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Harrison Hoffman (Webware): “The social networking site, Qlique, is currently running an ad on Facebook, targeted at college students, offering an hourly wage in exchange for creating content for the site. In order to try to set themselves apart from other social networks, Qlique’s main feature asks users to write stories about things that are [...]
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Andy Guess (Inside Higher Education): “Distance learners tend to drop out more readily than students who have regular, face-to-face contact with their instructors. And that fact, seen in retention statistics comparing students in traditional and online courses, motivated the City Colleges of Chicago to start at the beginning: at orientation. . . . In an [...]
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[Quote from website:] FACTS.org is Florida’s official online student advising system! High school students, college students, parents, and even counselors can use the services provided on this website to help plan and track educational progress in Florida! FACTS.org
is provided free by the Florida Department of Education to help students make informed choices about their [...]
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Jesse Kimbrel (Spartan Daily): “There are currently nine general education advisers at SJSU to meet the needs of roughly 30,000 students. Cindy Kato, director of academic advising and retention services, said the university needs more advisers, but there is an ‘advising council with five Task Forces that are exploring ways to improve advising.’ She said, [...]
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From the WSSSC (Washington State Student Services Commission) WINTER 2008 [Minutes]: “Rick [MacLennan] discussed a potential 2008 Technology Plan developed by the state-wide Technology Transformation Task Force. There are six goals tied to the basic principles . . . . These include online advising, online applications . . . . Rick also shared the status [...]
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