Those of you who follow me will know that in addition to writing here, being an author and all the other things I seem to do, that I’m also a teacher. I’ve spent the last few years teaching adult basic skills, which is helping adults with poor literacy and numeracy skills, or those without qualifications, [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Why are we still waiting for affordable laptops / netbooks / tablets for schools?
The mobile computing market changed forever a few years ago with the introduction of the netbook. Finally a small, reasonably lightweight personal computer that could be carried by anybody. Then the technology companies brought us a new breed of powerful ultraportables and finally tablets. One thing to note though is that prices haven’t changed much, [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Uberstudent: The students’ Linux
There are so many Linux distributions out there it’s dizzying. Some are simply respins of various base distributions with a different theme or maybe one or two specific applications thrown in for good measure. Sometimes it’s hard to reason why someone actually created a new distribution because there’s so closely resembles the distribution they used [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Indian slum children teach us a thing or two
An experiment that began 10 years ago with children living in slums in India being given computers for education has brought about surprising results, according to the BBC. The computers were installed as holes in the wall, much in the way people would expect to find a cashpoint, and children quickly learned to teach themselves [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Test driving the OpenSuSE Education distribution
Schools need open source. They need it to save money and they need it for reliability an flexibility. The problem is there aren’t many distributions geared towards educational institutions. Because of the OpenSuSE Education distribution, a plethora of distributions isn’t necessary. But does this promising distribution fill all the gaps? In this introductory article I [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Instruct your users or manage your classroom with iTALC
iTalc is one of those programs that, when you see it up and running, is a thing of brilliance. But what is it? iTALC is a didactical tool that allows a teacher to view and/or control a students’ PC on the internal network in multiple ways. It supports Linux and Windows and can be used [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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The Open Courseware Movement Offers Free Education Online
Not everyone takes a college class just for the credit toward their degree, there are actually a lot of people who love taking classes just to learn something new, because they are bored, or because they wish to prepare themselves a little better for future classes. Among these people there are those with no money [...]
How to Find the Best Deals on Textbooks
Most of you will agree with me when I say that education (especially in university) is expensive. After tuition and living costs, the next highest expense on the list will no doubt be textbooks. College textbooks prescribed by the university change on an almost yearly basis and most students have no choice but to cough [...]