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How PDAs Intersect With School

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the from-a-special-correspondent dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "It's never too young to be a yuppie. An engineering professor at the University of Michigan is studying how handheld technology can be incorporated in elementary and high schools. His theory is that PDAs can provide students with a much more interactive and cheaper means of learning than desktop computers. The professor has created a number of interesting applications for using PDAs in school, including a 'cooties' simulator, where students beam around a virus from Palm to Palm and then figure out how it propagated. The New York Times covers the use of PDAs in classrooms here, and Wired News has an article here talking about schools who ban students from carrying PDAs." Both articles focus on Palm OS devices at a school in Ann Arbor, but only the Wired piece points out that the devices were banned there last year.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fist porst

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No one cares anymore, they aren't exactly numbered. Get a life. I'd mod you down if I hadn't already of posted something constructive

    2. Re:fp by mackga · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      fuck you all, you all


      SUCK


      eat shit and DIE

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      "shop smart:shop s-mart" ash

    3. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well, well, well. If it isn't the shit bag called Mackga. How the hell are you, cockbreath?

  2. moo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    big and hairy scary dingoes eat cows

  3. The reality is that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    since I bought an iPaq I realize how much Palm Sucks a donkey's a55! Poor kids.

    Score -5: Troll

  4. Re:PDAs suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah um why do you bother man?? Get a life.

  5. I didnt see any M$ bashing posts today so I .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    put this in this thread, but you just have to look at this despite that its way off topic...

    http://128.241.244.96/portal/uploads/27000/27549 _w inrg.swf

  6. Home schooling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Save yourself the hassle and send the brat directly to special ed - he'll end up there anyway.

  7. PDA's in the classroom... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!

  8. 2211337 is even closer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We all know how hard everyone here tries to be "1337", y'know..

  9. BSD^H^H^H Slashdot is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    even the trolls have left...

  10. Re:Plus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, the crappy display will just make them go blind faster.

  11. Re:Plus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are you sure it would be the display that would make them go blind?

  12. Re: The Truth About CmdrTaco, VA, and Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Was this the same post that got deleted elsewhere?

    Seems VERY plausible though, even WITH all the swearing.

  13. Re:Morons- All Of You! by KFury · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Got tired of losing at chess?

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    Kevin Fox