New School Tech Phones Home
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Schools in Harford County, Maryland, are using a robo-dialing service that automatically calls students' homes and plays a prerecorded message if a snowstorm closes schools. By the Associated Press.
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By Todd Davis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 24--JUSTIN -- Talk about incentive.   Soon-to-be eighth-graders attending the summer TechnoCamp in the Northwest school district did more than learn how to operate computers this year.
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New gadgets include a keyboard with call buttons and a speakerphone.
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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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For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.
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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.
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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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Va. student's call to school administrator's home tiggers angry return call, online firestorm.
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By Bridget Carey, The Miami Herald  Sep. 22--TECH-SAVVY TEEN CLICKS WAY TO TOP   Weina Scott answers about 100 tech support e-mails a day. The website must be perfect -- one glitch, and 6,000 irate customers will bombard her inbox.   But first, she has to study her physics.
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The entry-level handset aims at home and office users. In Gear Factor.
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By GARY GENTILE LOS ANGELES - A home-schooled teenager named Bree is heating up the internet like few others today.
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BT 'keenly welcomes' more money shocker The schools minister, Jim Knight, has decided that every child in the country absolutely must have broadband at home, and has called on technology vendors to help him make it happen.â¦
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Students design mobile data-access system for health-care workers.
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See which gadgets today's college students use the most.
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NEARLY nine out of ten teachers in Birmingham feel pupils who do not have internet access at home are missing out in the classroom.   The findings are revealed in a survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of broadband provider ntl:Telewest.
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Philadelphia on Thursday opened a   public high school where students work on wireless laptops,   teachers eschew traditional subjects for real-world topics and   parents can track their child's work on the Internet.
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"TechKnow" program doles out PCs to children who complete special class, meet standards regarding grades and attendance.