By VICKI ROCK, Daily American

Classrooms with blackboards and chalk are going the way of the 8-track player. Schools today are converting to SMART boards — interactive whiteboards that are linked to laptop computers. Judy Maxwell, technology director for the Somerset Area School District, said students in kindergarten through sixth grade will now use SMART boards. The district received $350,000 in Enhanced Education Through Technology grant money and federal stimulus funds for the new technology. The district purchased 46 whiteboards, laptop computers for all the teachers and additional laptops for students to share. “The potential technology has in the classroom is unlimited,” said Erick Fish, principal of Eagle View Elementary. “Or we’re limited only by our imaginations.”

http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2010/08/25/news/local/news211.txt

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By Gus G. Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun

This fall, the hit course on some college campuses may very well be iPad 101. At the University of Maryland, administrators plan to hand out Apple iPads to about 60 students, part of a new two-year program called Digital Culture and Creativity that immerses students in new technologies and focuses on the potential of the iPad to shake up the campus experience. The iPad has experienced early success in the consumer market, with more than 3 million sold since April, and it’s already going back to school.

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By Kurt Bakke, Conceivably Tech

Sony says it has developed a new cable technology for use in mobile devices that can replace more than 20 individual cables with just one cable. The single wire interface is already on its way into production and is expected to enable a new class of flip phones. If you are looking for a new cell phone, buying a flip phone may not be your first thought. We are all about big touchscreens these days, but then we also have to admit that flip phones have not shown much innovation in the past few years and have dropped to the very low end or completely out of the market. But Sony says it has a new technology that may fuel a new generation of mobile devices which have a screen that is separate from the data input unit.

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By Laura Dignan, the Daily Times

With her daughter entering Cape Henlopen High School as a freshman, Lori Voss is ecstatic that Apple iPads are making their way into the classrooms. “These teenagers are technology whizzes,” she said. “(The iPads) will keep the students interested, and I think we need to progress and stay right alongside where technology is today.” Brian Curtis, associate principal of technology at Cape, said his district, together with neighboring Indian River, applied for a federal grant to purchase the devices. Curtis said he hopes students will be able to take the iPads home, but it hasn’t yet been determined if that will be possible. Administrators are also unsure of how many devices the district will receive and how much it will ultimately cost.

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by Laura Sydell, NPR

Google has created a new priority inbox system for its Gmail service. The new system sorts through your messages and puts the important ones in a separate box called Important. If you feel like you can’t deal with all the e-mail in your inbox, you are not alone. Market researchers say nearly 300 billion e-mails are sent each day. On average you will send and receive 110 messages daily. Google is releasing a feature for its Gmail service that the company says will help set priorities for your inbox and ease up that sense of information overload.

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By Sophia Li, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Josh Weinstein, a 2009 graduate of Princeton University, remembers waiting eagerly for his official college e-mail address the summer before freshman year. An address ending in .edu would give him access to Facebook, an online social network that only college students could join. Oh, how times have changed. Everyone and their mothers, and fathers, are on Facebook. But Mr. Weinstein hasn’t given up hope: He’s created a Web site where students can post messages, pictures, and events away from the prying eyes of parents and professors. The site, CollegeOnly, went up on Wednesday, and right now students from Cornell, Princeton, and Yale Universities can sign up.

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by Ralph Barrera, the Statesman

The same digital revolution that upended the music industry and is transforming TV, movies and books is slowly working its way into classrooms. In many schools, students are just as likely to carry a cell phone as a backpack. Schools and libraries are wired, outfitted with desktop, laptop and netbook computers with high-speed Internet access. Many of them are beginning to experiment with touch-screen computer tablets like the Apple iPad or increasingly powerful smart phones. But when it comes to the holy grail of electronic education — the e-textbook — Texas schools haven’t quite arrived at the date when students can stop carrying printed textbooks around.

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By MIMI PACIFICO, Daytona Beach News-Journal

A school-age boy needed special software for his computer in order to complete his assignments. His mother went in search of help. A young woman was preparing to move into her own apartment. Her mother wanted to make sure that if someone were to come to the front door, her daughter, who has a disability, would be able to see who was on the other side before opening it. Where could she turn for assistance? A man in his 70s with a vision problem hadn’t read his mail in years. A hand-held magnifier that could be adjusted to different powers was needed. What could he do? These are a few examples of the types of needs Sandi Baker tries to fill through Visual Innovations and Solutions, a Daytona Beach-based nonprofit established in 2007.

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By Matt Warman, the Telegraph

With the school year about to kick off, thousands of students are clamouring for a new computer. Adults, too, are no doubt thinking that an updated gadget could be just the thing to improve their productivity or make surfing the web that much better. However, no such excuses are needed – there has never been a better time to buy a new computer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7955817/How-to-choose-a-new-computer.html

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by John Cox, Computerworld

The top back-to-school IT projects at 10 colleges and universities show a tidal wave of change in higher education. Many of the changes could presage broader shifts in enterprise and consumer technology. Not surprisingly, wireless is fast becoming the default network connection for campus users, who typically own between two and four wireless-enabled mobile devices. At the same time, virtualization and growth in cloud-based services are centralizing and offloading IT functions. These changes, coupled with soaring video traffic, are triggering bandwidth upgrades at all levels.

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by Allison Hesford, KFYR

Bismarck`s newest school, Sunrise Elementary, will be starting its first school year next Thursday, and students can expect to see their teachers working with some new types of technology in the classroom. Sunrise will be using new multi function printers and short-throw projectors this year, both of which help the school function under a green concept. A new school needs new technology and Sunrise Elementary`s teachers attended a workshop Wednesday to learn how to implement a few of their new tools in the classroom, one of which is a multi function printer system that keeps documents secure.

http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=42419

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By Audrey Watters, Read Write Web

We are beginning to hear announcements fairly frequently about the states, school districts, and universities that are moving to the cloud for their email and productivity tools. As schools and universities adopt cloud technologies, what will become of the school computer lab? Computer labs have been important locations on campus for students to work, study, and access computing resources. But almost all students now come to college owning their own personal computers. A recent CNN story said that 95% of college students interviewed this spring owned at least one computer (83% owned a laptop, 24% a desktop, 15% both). That’s up from 23% of students who owned laptops in 2003.

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By Tony Bates, e-learning & distance learning resources

Academic Impressions is one of my main sources of news on e-learning and educational developments. The editor, Daniel Fusch occasionally does interviews with experts on issues that come up in the news. Yesterday, he published an interview with me on teaching academic honesty in the classroom. I often am asked, after giving a keynote on e-learning, about the prevalence of cheating in online courses, as if it doesn’t happen in face-to-face programs. If you read the Academic Impressions article, you will see that it doesn’t refer specifically to online courses. Certainly, technology makes cutting and pasting much easier than laboriously copying out other people’s writing by hand, but then technology gives us Turn-It-In, which acts as a check. In over 15 years of teaching online, I can remember only one instance when I was forced to use institutional procedures to deal with online cheating, and in this case, it was as a result of one student making a formal complaint about another using plagiarized material.

http://www.tonybates.ca/2010/08/21/cheating-in-online-learning/

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 by AAMP News

Many educators have observed that more students are now embracing the online Community College Education. According to a study, Community colleges are the top online education with annual online enrollment rising 20 percent nationwide for the past few years. This is likely due to job seekers desire to gain new skills in order to compete with other applicants in a down economy. It is estimated that community colleges have completed $6 billion in construction renovation in order to accommodatethe needs of that have come from the increase in online classes.

http://aamproject.org/more-students-embrace-online-community-college/1668

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by Joan Collins, Helium

Working full-time and taking on-line learning classes is a marriage made in heaven. Unlike brick and mortar schools, on-line colleges offer conditions that will allow any self-motivated student the opportunity to receive an education, enabling the student the chance to advance at work or to start another career while working. Managing this relationship is not any easier than a real marriage, but with thoughtful planning, the student will be able to thrive in both places.

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By David Sarno, LA Times blog

Pays to be a lady at Neumont University. Not only is there a fabulously good “ratio” — close to 93% of the Utah technology college’s nearly 400 graduating students have been male — but upon graduation, that tiny female sliver of the school population makes more money on average than the guys. In Neumont’s four-year history, the 27 girls nabbed higher average starting salaries than their male counterparts — $62,000 per annum for the gals, compared with $60,000 for the guys. Moreover, women are finding jobs faster too — with 95% of the female students getting jobs within six months of graduation, beating out the guys by four points.

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By HILLARY FEDERICO, Middletown Press

Bullies used to be those big kids who picked on the little ones; the ones who would tower over you on the playground or corner you with their fists clenched. But bullies are no longer restricted to methods of physical intimidation, letters or phone calls. Not anymore. Today, more and more bullies are hiding. They’re hiding behind computer screens and cell phones, text messages and social networking sites, using the available technology to battle against others mercilessly.

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By LINDA HOANG, QMI Agency

Ashley Brown is hoping to change the world — one smell at a time.  Born and raised in Elnora, a village about 70 km southeast of Red Deer, Brown, 17, never thought she’d be part of a team working on a project that could help improve rehabilitation, education, research and even gaming. It’s called Smell-O-Vision, and it’s a virtual reality computer program — which Brown built herself — that uses scents to make the virtual reality experience more realistic.

 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2010/08/18/15058781.html

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By Alex Wilhelm, the Next Web

Amazon is sticking to its ereading guns and pushing the envelope with devices that some call out of date. In the face of the iPad, Amazon’s newest Kindles were more of the same, matching their predecessors ideas but adding in upgrades to the mix with lower prices. As it turns out, most of the pundits were wrong to say that Amazon needed to shake up their hardware, the newest Kindles with their black and white e-ink displays are a huge hit (yet again) with consumers around the world. According to Amazon “the new Kindles [are] the fastest-selling ever.” In other words, Amazon is not falling behind by pushing e-ink, they are accelerating.

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/08/25/amazons-new-kindle-is-a-smashing-success/

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By Alex Wilhelm, the Next Web

If this is true, we may be looking at a real resurgence by Microsoft in the browser wars. It could be that the much beleaguered Internet Explorer is on the route to becoming usable, if you can believe it. ZDnet managed to snipe a screenshot and the text from a Microsoft Russia post about the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 before it was pulled from the website.

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