Intel will launch its Classmate PC in a new model with a reversible screen, which allows it to be used as both a netbook and tablet. Classmate PC, which previously went by the name Eduwise, has been on the market for three years and is a low-cost netbook designed specifically for school students.
Today there are 2 million Classmate PCs in use, according to figures from Intel. The new model will probably be designed for both school pupils and students.
Custom students
The device will be designed for any rough use. Touch screen will be resistant and the unit will be packed in rubber, which allows it to go in the ground a few times. The rubber will also protect your device against spills, and the hard drive is shock protected.
The goal is that the Classmate be a part of pupils and students' everyday lives. E-browser support including ePub and PDF, and you have the opportunity to take notes directly on the page to read, and mark out what you find necessary. You will also find applications to math, science, etc. Included in the device.
- Intel's Classmate models are not the cheapest netbooks on the market, but if you look at the durability, design and software, brings the high value to the education market, "says Jeff Galinovsky, region manager for the Classmate PC.
The new Classmate model will have a 10.1-inch display, up to 160 GB hard drive - with opportunities for SSD, up to 8.5 hours battery life and a number of options for wireless connectivity. The device also comes with a rotating camera of 1.3 mega pixels and two jack plugs.
Intel does not want to say something about the price of the new model, and says that this depends on the customer's configurations and who is the manufacturer. The launch is believed to be the second quarter of this year.
We have access to the awful lot of information to any given time. As long as one has a cell phone or some other gizmo with them you can probably surf the internet, contact others and get the vitamins thing. This widget (The Sixth Sense) makes the whole process a little easier. Browse through the video and think a bit about what consequences this might have in the school.
- Who ensure that the information is correct? Anyone can add in? Source Criticism ... - What time do one like that? - What kind of factual knowledge should one have?
- How should the examination papers / assignments be that the student should be able to show what he / she can do with the information? (Tor Espen some domes at the bottom here .) - How can you, as teachers use this technology in teaching? - Does this have any relation to complex texts? - What strategies for use, interactions etc. one should have?
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Computer use in schools is characterized in all of the high degree of idealism and volunteerism. For many school leaders this is about attitude change and an acceptance of the digital educational life, as well as a progressive form of school management, where IT is central in the development of school and learning
learning organization
Ola Erstad points out three factors that prevent real change and school development in terms of ICT. A) Factors that prevent changes to come into the school (eg, technology, skepticism) The school establishes therefore not qualified to try out new technology at all. Here, the development of a school to a halt before it has begun to clog the bottleneck here. B) Factors that prevent changes occurring in the school. This means that teachers either chose not to emphasize, or do not see the need to take new technology into the curriculum. C) Factors that prevent the change is spreading in schools. These are institutional factors that limit the opportunities to adopt new technology.
Erstad also says somewhere that the biggest challenge we face is teachers 'and students' traditional conception of knowledge and learning.
Your privacy is important, but how easy is it to collect information about you?
Tax Lists makes it possible to find out what other stones , birth date can be found, phone number , address, business interests , list of tasks and controls , named statistics and much more. It takes some time to find out all this information and it has no more efficient at http://iam.no, test your own phone number or name to see what is publicly available about you. Information about the boss in iam.no located here .
Iam.no is also not the only service that makes such things, have you tested pipl.com ?
Data Inspectorate will look at the service of iam.no, but I can not see away from the fact that they are allowed to set together the information such. More about it here and here .
A gold mine for identity theft?
What digital traces you left today?
Bom chip? Picture with geotagging? Filmed by surveillance cameras? Visa Card? Had the phone?
Face.com , Picasa and iPhoto recognize the face. I wonder if these transfer information to Google and Apple?
You can continue to discuss about ICT in learning is meaningless or not, about getting some more value when a user of ICT, in the digital learning resources are good enough, the promise of knowledge have a good framework and objectives and looked after.
I am convinced that ICT can provide a more value in learning and teaching if some specific assumptions are present. It is also important to distinguish learning, or with ICT. Here it may be big differences in what one might expect of a dividend.
Although I support myself often theories about Mind Tools to try to identify the types of software and not least the relevant learning situations.
Now I wish to conduct you to outline the situations and plan where you think it is possible to achieve good learning with the use of ICT. Please think situations / programs or situations / programs you yourself have experienced.
Like all other "rules" with religious references, it is important to think a little critical, Rolf Jacobsen have guessed it:
"And what is faith?Almost the same as hope. But if you think too much, then you fanatic. It is not good.Therefore, we have doubts, too. Without doubt we would still befunnet us in the Stone Age.But you should not doubt to much either. You should only have a small sunroof for doubt. I think this is the meaning.A little doubt behind the ear. " Rolf Jacobsen ..
have a responsibility to develop students' digital literacy
Of course, should not students check Facebook during lessons
Levene will not shout or send patches.
important to focus on good management class where the teacher sets clear requirements for what media and methods used for different parts of the teaching
guidelines developed by teachers and students together
99% of all young people use the Internet daily and have it available at home and at school, the school must take its responsibility to participate and develop students' digital literacy.
digital tools as a basic skill
Using digital tools is to develop competence in key attributes such as search for information, use and share information in a sensible and upright manner, be a source-critical, create and produce complex texts with the use of photos, film and text.
We often hear students ironic of teachers' lack of technical skills. But even if students know how to enter keywords into Google or creating profile on Facebook, they have usually little or no expertise in such source criticism.
it is teachers who must teach pupils the source criticism
requires teachers to utilize ICT in teaching and draw in students' broad experience in media as a resource in teaching
still too many teachers who only use computer in their own preparation and management of hours and your own post
The technology itself does not provide learning, and thankfully not replace the much-needed teacher. However, the way teachers and students use technology in providing learning effect.
forbidden line towards social media and certain Web sites also means that schools exclude children and young people's digital everyday life
If the school responds to shut out new phenomenon that social media will ultimately students' digital literacy will be insufficient. And the result may be that the young have not developed a real and competitive digital expertise to seek work or study in the information society they are born in.
A study I conducted shows that most young people use social media to "kill time"
school can utilize social media successfully in the classroom, but this should be reasonably planned and integrated into teaching, combined with teachers who have expertise in this
digital literacy concept far too under-developed that we can throw technology into the school at all levels
It is missing in other words, an embodiment of the elements in the digital skills that should be included for different age groups in school.
Special education in secondary - no change with the Knowledge Promotion
in separate classes with reduced elevtall
significantly poorer
students on vocational courses earn performance-wise to have students with special needs in their classes
some students who leave the school without the grades, but they go out of Vg1 with 4'ere and 5'ere in all subjects.
high educational level of consciousness among the school's leadership and among school staff identified as a success criterion in relation to the overall success of special education,
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Actually for marketing, but why not use this to distribute the text / video / audio / image in school? Language training? Info from the library? Other?
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