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Mount St. Mary’s University will be making some dramatic changes to its student laptop program, reports the Mountain Echo, the campus newspaper. Incoming students will no longer pay the $1,400 for the required Dell laptops to access the campus network, because the school will be discontinuing the program starting in the 2009-10 school year.
An undercover investigation shows Craigslist is not protecting children from online predators, reports the Detroit News.
Facebook is trying its hand at democracy: The fast-growing online hangout, whose more than 175 million worldwide users could form the world’s sixth-largest country, said Feb. 26 that those users will play a “meaningful role” in deciding the site’s policies and voting on changes, reports the Associated Press.
Utah will use some of its federal stimulus money to pay for high-tech teaching software and new computer labs in the state’s poorest schools as part of an effort to use new technologies to boost test scores, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
According to a new study, college students who watch their lectures from their dorm room via podcast might do better on their next exam than those who attend the lecture in person, reports the Industry Standard.
The legions of fundraisers colleges hired during the boom years have a new mission for these tough economic times: Go easy on the hard sell. Talk about financial aid, not shiny new buildings. If prospects can’t give now, lay the groundwork for when the economy recovers. Key words: fundraising, indiana university, recession.
At the Texas Computer Education Association’s 29th annual conference earlier this month, educators heard an impassioned plea to open their students’ eyes to the world around them–and were urged to change their approach to instruction to take full advantage of 21st-century learning tools.
Key words: TCEA, 21st century learning, education, technology, Lisa Ling, web 2.0
Education–and especially higher education for all students–is a critical area of focus in President Obama’s proposed budget for next year, which he outlined for Congress in a 146-page plan on Feb. 26.
Key words: education budget, 2010 budget, higher education funding, education technology funding
A prototype thesaurus that offers synonyms based on the context of a word in a sentence, rather than just the word itself, was one of about 40 research projects Microsoft presented Feb. 24 during the first day of its weeklong TechFest in Redmond, Wash., reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Glynn County, Ga., school superintendent, who was fired last week, had used his school system BlackBerry and eMail address to seek sex from people posting classified ads on the internet, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
