I don't think you understand the tactical situation in Korea. Last time I checked, Pyungyang had more than 50,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul. Nukes or no nukes, any invasion/incursion/liberation/exercise(insert favorite term here) would be met with massive retaliation, death and destruction for our favorite S. Korean city. It is the country equivalent of a hostage stand-off with a "gun to our head." In situations such as this there literally is no force, except sanctions and internal collapse that can work because S. Korea will have to be willing to sacrifice its largest city in the process.
The only comfort I get is that the USGS says it has monitored no "unusual" seismic activity on the Korean Penninsula -- N. Korea is famous for its fiction and we can pin some of our hopes on the idea that they don't really have the technology... not just yet.
We do a great deal with our iBooks including data analysis via spreadsheets, lab interfaces with chemical experiments, lab interfaces with biological elements such as EKG, basic programming in PHP, mySQL, RealBasic and Applescript. We also teach students basics in common file formats so they don't fall into the Office Suite expense/upgrade trap.
The computers are also used of course for extensive multimedia use with photography and movies as well as presentations. We do quite a lot with photoshop as well. Additionally, the techniques we teach concerning how to "mine data" from the internet are quite valuable and MUST be taught for our children to stay competitive.
Understanding how to get good information back from a google or Yahoo search is critical and involves some great lessons in knowledge evaluation such as analyzing the source, analyzing your own internal bias and analyzing the article for internal logic consistency!
We do all of this and couldn't do it without the computers. Also, we have had a significant cost savings in text books because so much of the info we need for our lesson plans is on line. Years ago we worried about buying many copies of encylopedia CD's now we flit about the internet grabbing high quality diagrams and bits of useful info. It is a really exciting time to be a teacher.
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I don't think you understand the tactical situation in Korea. Last time I checked, Pyungyang had more than 50,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul. Nukes or no nukes, any invasion/incursion/liberation/exercise(insert favorite term here) would be met with massive retaliation, death and destruction for our favorite S. Korean city. It is the country equivalent of a hostage stand-off with a "gun to our head." In situations such as this there literally is no force, except sanctions and internal collapse that can work because S. Korea will have to be willing to sacrifice its largest city in the process. The only comfort I get is that the USGS says it has monitored no "unusual" seismic activity on the Korean Penninsula -- N. Korea is famous for its fiction and we can pin some of our hopes on the idea that they don't really have the technology ... not just yet.
We do a great deal with our iBooks including data analysis via spreadsheets, lab interfaces with chemical experiments, lab interfaces with biological elements such as EKG, basic programming in PHP, mySQL, RealBasic and Applescript. We also teach students basics in common file formats so they don't fall into the Office Suite expense/upgrade trap. The computers are also used of course for extensive multimedia use with photography and movies as well as presentations. We do quite a lot with photoshop as well. Additionally, the techniques we teach concerning how to "mine data" from the internet are quite valuable and MUST be taught for our children to stay competitive. Understanding how to get good information back from a google or Yahoo search is critical and involves some great lessons in knowledge evaluation such as analyzing the source, analyzing your own internal bias and analyzing the article for internal logic consistency! We do all of this and couldn't do it without the computers. Also, we have had a significant cost savings in text books because so much of the info we need for our lesson plans is on line. Years ago we worried about buying many copies of encylopedia CD's now we flit about the internet grabbing high quality diagrams and bits of useful info. It is a really exciting time to be a teacher.