TECHNOLOGICAL WHIZ KIDS ; Norwell Pupils Put Robots Through Their Paces
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By ANDREW LIGHTMAN  LEGO COMPETITION  NORWELL  After pressing a few buttons, Meredith Jones watched her Lego robot push a toy truck onto a platform.  Then it pushed a red box several feet, precisely into a square. Then the robot dropped a ball into a container.
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Last year, officials at Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia set out to provide a laptop computer for every student in the county's nine high schools.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing worldâs children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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Rapid advances in robot development are leading to a whole new generation of tools and toys.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--Before a new batch of computers arrived at the Learning is For Everyone Program of the East Salinas Family Center, George Flores, 12, used to get 15 minutes of computer time every other day.
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OSAKA, Japan - A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.
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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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If youngsters could design their own laptop computers from scratch, what functions would they include?
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Cutting class just got harder but schools are safer thanks to computer chips that help track students, Japanese officials say.    Some schools here this month began trial runs in which students carry chips that have tiny antennae and can be traced by radio, with some of the kids attaching the tags to their backpacks...
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A village school in Devon is claiming to have one of the most technologically advanced classrooms in the country.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Parents in England are to be promised online "real-time reporting" on their children's progress at school.
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Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
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By Charlie Boss, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 24--Mornings at the school sound of water splashing on soapy hair, onions sizzling on a skillet and computers humming.