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• Me-A Course of Study
  ...m wanting to become a teacher. Humans can teach lots of things better than computers.) Second, my mom bought me a laptop computer and the school let me use it whenever I felt it would be helpful.
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• Nicholas Negroponte
  ...and Chairman of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC).] ...o a spatial machine, a legacy that lasts to this day. Into the early 1980s computers had been dominated by textual interfaces. At the Architecture Machine Group
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• College Student’s Guide to Computers in Education/Chapter 2: Inventing Your Future
  ...puter field. His name is closely associated with the development of laptop computers and with the graphic user interface (clicking on icons to make things happe More than 50 years ago, in the late 1940s, it was not too clear that computers were here to stay. They were expensive, bulky, unreliable, and difficult to
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• College Student’s Guide to Computers in Education/Chapter 8: Brief Introductions to A number of Key Ideas
  Since the early days of computers, it has been common to refer to such a machine as being an electronic brain ... your auxiliary brain and its contents? Suppose that you are carrying your laptop computer in your arms, walking to class and talking to a fellow student. Yo
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• Educational Anthropology
  ...mber of computers in a school, and many schools brag abut being one-to-one laptop schools. This is an interesting, countable piece of information, but it say ==Applications to Computers in Education==
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• Seymour Papert
  ...ughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity. The idea of an in ...ct line (which was named after Papert's seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas).
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• Moursund Editorial/Empowering Teachers
  ...erform well on assessment instruments that are totally unrelated to use of computers. It isn't just the amount of hardware and software available in the classro ...nd more. Computers have not empowered most teachers. Rather, by and large, computers have decreased the actual and perceived power of teachers. Most teachers pe
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• Math Education Digital Filing Cabinet
  :# Computers can solve or significantly help to solve some of the problems in each acade :* On your own personal computer or computers.
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• No Cost Educational Videos
  ...ay be a server available to teachers, a classroom computer, or a teacher's laptop computer. Assuming that there is a computer projector or large computer dis ...Web. The makes it possible for people to access video materials from their computers, and at a time they find convenient. This also opens up a new way of teachi
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• What the Future is Bringing Us
  ...troduced in the early 1960s — initially on automobile assembly lines — computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were designed to perform only th ... of microcomputers. The argument is that they are being replaced by tablet computers. Here is an article that does some forecasting on this topic:
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• Golden Oldie News Items
  ...ce a cornerstone of American education, is becoming a cultural artifact as computers and the demands of standardized tests squeeze it out of its once lofty posi ==Supercomputer Built Out of Macintosh Computers (9/26/03)==
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• Two Brains Are Better Than One
  ::::::::: “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow ...for such early computers is "automated calculating machines." These early computers were designed to rapidly and accurately carry out a specified sequence of a
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• Open Source Textbooks
  ...llustrated by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child "$100 laptop"] project. While the cost of manufacturing these machines is not yet down t ...for use on inexpensive [http://www.merchantos.com web based point of sale] computers are being made available through large projects, through top-down approache
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• Crowdsourcing to Improve Education
  ...oards with digital touch screens; where every student in a classroom has a laptop at [his or her] desk; where [students] don't just do book reports but desig Alan Kay is one of the pioneers in the field of computers in education. In 2003 he made a 28 minute video titled [http://video.google
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• Alan Kay
  ...known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming, laptop computers, graphical user interfaces, and dedication to improve the education of chil ... left shows Alan Kay holding up a 1968 cardboard prototype of the Dynabook laptop computer. The picture is from a 2006 celebration of the [http://flickr.com/
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• Women and ICT
  * [http://iae-pedia.org/History_of_Computers_in_Education History of Computers in Education.] ...machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including B
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• Math Maturity
  Also note that the list does not mention calculators and computers. Some mathematicians are highly skilled in use of these tools and, indeed, ...l with the steadily increasing capability and available of calculators and computers. In essence, we now need an education system that deals with human brains a
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• What the Future is Bringing Us (2008)
  ...y.jpeg|left|180px]] [[Image:Stanford_AI_STAIR.jpeg|left|180px]][[Image:One Laptop.jpeg|left|180px]]__TOC__</Center> :: Moursund, D.G. (2005). Planning, Forecasting, and Inventing Your Computers-in-Education Future. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Retrieved 12/1
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• What the Future is Bringing Us (2007)
  ...y.jpeg|left|180px]] [[Image:Stanford_AI_STAIR.jpeg|left|180px]][[Image:One Laptop.jpeg|left|180px]]__TOC__</Center> :: Moursund, D.G. (2005). Planning, Forecasting, and Inventing Your Computers-in-Education Future. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Retrieved 12/1
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• Staff Development via Distance Education
  In addition, Information and Communication Technology (including computers) is steadily improving in its ability to provide interactive feedback. This However…we now have computers, and a computer has a type of brain and intelligence. Artificial intelligen
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