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Monthly Archives August 2003

MIT OpenCourseWare

Wired Magazine reports that MIT Everyware (free course content from MIT for everyone) is up and running. For those of you who wanted to study at MIT and ended up at Moo U instead, here is your chance.

Posted 27 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

CIPA Update

If you follow such things, National Telecommunications and Information Administration has released a report on the success of CIPA (Child Internet Protection Act). The report discusses the issue of filtering relevant to e-rate.

Posted 27 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Personal Web Servers

There is one area in which I feel technology is moving in the wrong direction. From my personal historical perspective, one of the great benefits of improvements in technology has been the distribution of computing power. The Internet has been part of this trend and so have powerful personal machines. Older folks (like me) remember [...]

Posted 27 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Apple’s School Days Numbered?

Business Week has a recent article arguing that Apple’s dominance in the school market is slipping? The reason as I understand it – mom and dad can’t understand why their kids use different machines in school than mom and dad use at home and work. This is an interesting issue to me. Does it imply [...]

Posted 25 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Windows Problems

The Washington Post just published an article prompted by recent virus attacks explaining why Windows machines are easy targets.

Posted 24 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Faked Images

Shortly after the recent electical failures in the eastern US and Canada, the following image was circulated on several educational listservs. Later, this image was reported to be a fake. Actual before and after images are available from Canadian Geographic and NOAA. There is probably a good object lesson in this – things get faked [...]

Posted 23 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Games As Environments for Meaningful Learning

I have long been interested in the potential of computer games. My early experiences with computer-based technology originated from my research interest in the development of reading comprehension and comprehension monitoring skills. Students and I programmed text-based adventure games that we felt were appropriate for upper-elementary students. We studied how good and poor readers performed [...]

Posted 23 August 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °