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05 October, 2013
02 October, 2013
01 October, 2013
Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week. "They were bound to fail," says Renee Hobbs, who runs the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island. She's been a skeptic of the iPad program from the start. "Children are growing up today [with] the iPad used as a device for entertainment. So when the iPad comes into the classroom, then there's a shift in everybody's thinking." Hobbs says this isn't the first time educators have tried to co-opt things that lots of people use for fun. "Back in the 1930s, there was a big initiative to use radio in education," says Hobbs. "It was the original distance education." But, Hobbs says, that all fizzled out.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education,
History
A Liberal Party source confirmed the software might not be installed on handsets purchased separately from telcos, such as from online discount stores; however, they said parents usually bought their children's phones and could opt for handsets with the filtering software. A lack of knowledge and information by parents and teachers about the measures available to protect children was a key factor to overcome
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Education,
Social
30 September, 2013
GUMALA Aboriginal Corporation's systems had limited reporting capabilities and restricted functionality in its member-facing applications. Gumala is one of Australia's largest indigenous corporations. Case Study: Gumala PROBLEM: Rapid growth saw technology requirements outstrip the capacity of existing systems. PROCESS: Microsoft Dynamics CRM ``out-of-the-box'' software was teamed with NEC's business analysis and integration services. RESULT: Streamlined business processes and full transaction and system activity auditing.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Indigenous
In Australia, which has recently moved to have a single nationwide public school curriculum, educators from Sydney to Perth have digital access to the same lesson plans, tests, and all other classroom materials. Thousands of the country’s teachers have been given early access to a private network built by Declara called the Scootle Community. It’s a social network that will eventually link all 280,000 teachers in Australia and allow them to form groups around topics. (Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey)
29 September, 2013
It is now 30 years since I launched the campaign for freedom in computing, that is, for software to be free or “libre” (we use that word to emphasize that we’re talking about freedom, not price). Some proprietary programs, such as Photoshop, are very expensive; others, such as Flash Player, are available gratis — either way, they subject their users to someone else’s power.
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