Tag: K-12
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Open Letter to Elementary School Teachers
Kenneth J. Willers (principal atsign stjohnseagles dot com) penned an open letter to Elementary school teachers and thanks to an email that I just recieved, I have persmission to post some “words” here. Dear Elementary School Teacher, Are you teaching in a “cyber-classroom?” Is your instruction considered “high-tech?” If you answered “NO” to either question,…
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High School Interface Design Contest
For all those budding Xerox Researchers out there, TAMU is having a contest. I found out about it through one a friend of mine who is involved. Wanted: High school teams who think outside the box and can design innovative and elegant solutions to non-conventional problems. A wide range of interests from art, education, psychology,…
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Intel’s Eduwise rechristened Classmate PC – we need a Frankenkinderlappy
I mentioned this device before, but now, Intel has rolled out it’s Classmate PC. The big advantage that this will likely have over the OLPC or MS versions of the kinderlappy is that Intel is also big into WiMax, something that will allow these machines to connect to the world on a much grander scale…
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Silent Cells
I know I’ve been one to threated to tak away cell phones in a lecture. It’s an empty threat to remind kids to turn their phones to a silent mode, but now New York (C|Net) has done it one a large scale. Even though they can be annoying for many, they don’t have to be…
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Global Conflicts : Palestine
Mark posted about this game already today, but this is a followup to the comment that I left on his blog. I suggested that a stealth version of the game could be quite interesting as well. Then I got to thinking that there are other ways that this tyoe of game could be played as…