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Tag: K-12

  • Kinderlappy Interface

    eSchool News has a sneak peak at the interface to the sub $100 laptop. It looks really quite nice and is certainly usable. Technorati Tags: kinderlappy, sub $100 laptop, OLPC

  • Recess threatened?

    Cog Daily has an article on how recess is becoming structured and as often as not cut out completely. Even though it’s not talking about gaming like I’ve written about, it still talking about the importance of unstructured play. If you look at how kids learn many of the tools that they use in their…

  • More fun with your iPod, PowerSchool from Pearson

    Engadget is reporting that Pearson Education is developing content for the iPod and also purchasing PowerSchool from Apple. Hopefully this brings some good things about – Imagine if there is an Apple Cell Phone/iPhone in the works, then that would be a killer education app – teachers and admin having access to their PowerSchool data…

  • DOPA Talk

    I know I had this as an edit on yesterday’s post and this may increase the noise on the RSS, but I think it’s better to have this as a separate post to create volume in the blogoshpere. Here is a list of a few others writing on this topic: Weblogg-ed 2¢ Worth Speed of…

  • Holy Reactionary Legislation Batman! – Someone Please Think of the Children!

    Leave it to the US to propose DOPA, the “Deleting Online Predators Act”. That is right, “think of the children!” I’m thinking that the US should now move to ban pencils, because they could also be used to form social networks though “pen pal”, a breeding ground for wierdos that like to write to each…