How Technology Changes Classrooms

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How Technology Changes Classrooms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 7, 2008 @04:12AM from the way-more-porn-for-starters dept.

Corrupt writes "Just ask 11-year-old Jemella Chambers. She is one of 650 students who receive an Apple Inc laptop each day at a state-funded school in Boston. From the second row of her classroom, she taps out math assignments on animated education software that she likens to a video game."

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Nice! by DigitAl56K · 2008-07-07 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

She is one of 650 students who receive an Apple Inc laptop each day
I wish I could receive an Apple Inc laptop each day! Sounds profitable ;)
An Apple each day? by Traffic+James · 2008-07-07 04:15 · Score: 1, Funny

That's a lot of apples!
Re:I find the obsession with tech in the class bad by exley · 2008-07-07 04:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Kids don't learn Latin anymore
Aside from learning one of the foundations of our language I'm not sure why you pick this of all things to be upset about. I never learned Latin and I speak the english real good.
Re:As much as it pains me to say this... by TheRaven64 · 2008-07-07 04:27 · Score: 2, Funny

We didn't have computers, but we still played games and passed messages behind the teachers' backs.

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Re:What's wrong with an abicus? by DriedClexler · 2008-07-07 04:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Seriously, what's wrong with the abicus?
The spelling?
(Disclaimer: I wish English would simplify its entire spelling system, blah blah blah.)

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Re:Every day? by strabes · 2008-07-07 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Nothing the government does in Massachusetts is wasteful.

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You know what they say... by halber_mensch · 2008-07-07 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny

An Apple Inc. laptop a day keeps the Norton Disk Doctor away...

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Re:As an English teacher... by dkleinsc · 2008-07-07 07:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Our chief problem is that we're discouraged from teaching grammar, and needing to entertain the students ... Our 2 chief problems are that we're discouraged from teaching grammar, needing to entertain the students, and a lack of basic math and composition learning in elementary schools ...
I'll come in again.

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