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Articles tagged with: School and Students
Qualcomm Helps Deploy Wireless Connections for Schools in Rural China
..hich include computers, EV-DO data cards, related software and Internet service, in four local schools. The benefitting schools serve more than 9,000 local teachers and students in the ethnically diverse area of Gansu Province. In addition, Jish more
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Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell phones after they were designated "unhealthy" by local education officials, according to its Web site. more
Related Tags: ringtones, washington, music, video, politics, China
Nearly Half of Arab Students Support Increased Censorship on the Web
.. or even a banning of internet access. The survey questioned 2,744 university and high school students in Jordon, Lebanon and the UAE about their media consumption habits. Despite support for censorship, the survey counter intuitively found tha more
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IBM and IIT Bombay to Collaborate on Mobile Web Research
IBM has announced an Open Collaboration Research (OCR) project with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay). The research collaboration will focus on the development of new designs for mobile device interfaces that can easily be used by people who are semiliterate or illiterate, as well as individuals who have limited or no access to information technology. more
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Cell Phones in Education: Resource or Distraction?
..k to their parents, classmates, and even teachers. Cell phone use by students while at school has been a particularly controversial topic. Many educators, tutors and teachers argue that cell phones are a distraction and should be banned. As re more
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ITU calls for broadband Internet access for half the world's population by 2015
..formation. Many health care institutions and schools in developing countries deprived of high-speed Internet access The report finds that the availability of ICTs in health institutions in developing countries is limited and more needs to be do more
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Kindle e-reader motivates less-enthusiastic readers
.. She's also talking with middle school teachers about how downloadable e-books might appeal to young teen boys who are reluctant readers. Based on the elementary students' reactions to the e-readers, Larson expects that gadget-savvy teenagers more
Related Tags: e-book, kindle, apple-ipad, amazon-kindle, e-books, kansas
Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says
.. Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that schools and libraries should consider embracing texting and tweeting as a means of engagement rather than simply outlawing it. "I think if you're an edu more
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Cell phones become handheld tools for global development
Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. more
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Breakthrough Research Speeds and Secures Internet Voice Traffic
Cisco is joining with the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (CATT) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University to commercialize breakthrough security technology developed by scientists at Columbia University and Verizon Laboratories. more
Related Tags: verizon, cisco, columbia-university, silicon-valley, security, new-york, wired, sip, video, session-initiation-protocol,
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