High-Tech Help for Jamaican School
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By Rachel Tuinstra, Seattle Times  Jun. 16--As a Peace Corps volunteer digging latrines in the West African nation of Mali, James Burke began thinking about computers and how they could help the world.   He decided that when he got home, he wanted to be a teacher.
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Free Wi-Fi, subsidized music-download services, even free iPods at Duke University. There&#39;s no question that high-tech perks are a fixture of today&#39;s college experience.
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Designed for schoolchildren in developing countries, these inexpensive, stripped-down portables are drawing lots of interest from the gadget set.
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NEW YORK  - A computer program that  improves one type of memory appears to help kids with  attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new study  findings suggest.
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By Joanne Clodfelter Contributing Writer  DAYTON -- The class of 2007 has grown up using computers in ways that were yet unheard of in their parents' generation. Computers connect them to their communities and to their world.
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Jamaica&#39;s government says it plans to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island. The e-Jamaica initiative will establish 60 Internet centres across the country by 2010, mostly in post offices.
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 19--Does having their own computers during the day help elementary students become better writers? Or better understand what they read?   Omaha Public Schools began a program to test those questions last year.
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By Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  May 29--St. Catherine's School rising seventh-graders can add laptops to their fall school-supply list.
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By CATE DEVINE  EDINBURGH University is to be home to the one of the world's most advanced supercomputers. And even though the most Luddite of technophobes might not yet know it, this is excellent news not only for Scotland but for the entire world.
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Nigerian pupils and teachers explain how the $100 laptop project has helped education Africa.
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Two years ago, every student at T.C. Williams High received a wireless laptop computer. Alexandria school officials described the venture as a leap into the future of education and a way to close the digital divide.
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If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionize teaching in developing nations. Computerworld Denmark asked Jan Soelberg, an expert from the school of education at the University of Aarhus, to try the computer.
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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As children head back to school savvy  teachers are looking for the best ways to help students  maximize their learning potential.
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iPods and cell phones top the gadget list for penny-pinching students, and few hit campus without a PC.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.