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No more PCs, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks?
- 06-10-2011
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Blog by Larry Cuban/Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Two pictures capture the future of desktop computers in schools and the eventual move to cloud computing. Bart Simpson and classmates, sitting in rows of desks facing the teacher and a blackboard filled with arithmetic problems, all have mobile devices. They are seemingly connected to servers on data farms watching and listening to things far removed from providing answers to the multiplication and division questions on the board. The cartoon’s peek into a future mirrors Steve Jobs’ announcement of Apple’s forthcoming iCloud. Google Docs, of course, has offered teachers similar access. (more...)
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