I don't really think that computers have ever been great teaching enhancers. During university, I learned the most actively when the prof was lecturing directly using chalk and a blackboard. Overheads, PowerPoint slides, or tablet PC presentations just caused too much passive observation.
Computers can be of tremendous educational value if the child is learning more about the machine itself by learning to program, for instance. Instead, look at all the mindless computer uses that we get into: IM, gaming, stupid e-mail forwards, slashdot moderation...
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Bolder) and the University of Waterloo (UW) indicates that Earth in its infancy probably had substantial quantities of hydrogen in its atmosphere, a surprising finding that may alter the way many scientists think about how life began on the planet.
(Prepared with material from the University of Waterloo and University of Boulder at Colorado.)
Man, UW really needs to proofread their press releases.
The K7S5A was great provided that you were running an Athlon XP. I had a 1.3Ghz Athlon (not XP) that refused to run at anything greater than 1GHz. When those of us who were having similar problems attempted to contact ECS, they refused to acknowledge the problem and threatened to sue.
Windows 95 originally stored the user's password (the key for it's PWL "password cache") as plaintext in memory. OEM Service Release 2 introduced so-called "encryption" - they XOR'd each character in the buffer with 0x7E.
I live in Kitchener-Waterloo, and it was Barry Head (the father) who came to my apartment last week to do a fire inspection and change the smoke detectors... If only I had known that he was a spammer... why couldn't this news have come out earlier!
I could also argue that Sybase/iAnywhere Solutions' SQL Anywhere Studio is a great program written by mostly UW grads, therefore UW is the shit, but I'm not going to do that. I don't think you can seriously make that kind of correlation.
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I don't really think that computers have ever been great teaching enhancers. During university, I learned the most actively when the prof was lecturing directly using chalk and a blackboard. Overheads, PowerPoint slides, or tablet PC presentations just caused too much passive observation.
Computers can be of tremendous educational value if the child is learning more about the machine itself by learning to program, for instance. Instead, look at all the mindless computer uses that we get into: IM, gaming, stupid e-mail forwards, slashdot moderation...
There goes my karma and mod points...
(Prepared with material from the University of Waterloo and University of Boulder at Colorado.)
Man, UW really needs to proofread their press releases.
Correlation does not necessarily mean causation, however, contrary to what press-hungry politicians would like us to believe.
No, the fundies will just ban lego.
The K7S5A was great provided that you were running an Athlon XP. I had a 1.3Ghz Athlon (not XP) that refused to run at anything greater than 1GHz. When those of us who were having similar problems attempted to contact ECS, they refused to acknowledge the problem and threatened to sue.
Windows 95 originally stored the user's password (the key for it's PWL "password cache") as plaintext in memory. OEM Service Release 2 introduced so-called "encryption" - they XOR'd each character in the buffer with 0x7E.
At least it will flag any occurances of "y'all."
I live in Kitchener-Waterloo, and it was Barry Head (the father) who came to my apartment last week to do a fire inspection and change the smoke detectors... If only I had known that he was a spammer... why couldn't this news have come out earlier!
I hear that there's a record-breaking Dorito selling on eBay...
Sybase itself was still using Watcom C++ 11.0c for SQL Anywhere Studio Windows builds until mid-2001.
I could also argue that Sybase/iAnywhere Solutions' SQL Anywhere Studio is a great program written by mostly UW grads, therefore UW is the shit, but I'm not going to do that. I don't think you can seriously make that kind of correlation.