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Microsoft techs-out a Philadelphia high school
A school in Philadelphia just opened (Sept 7th) all decked out with Microsoft technology. Students will be able to use "...smart cards and Tablet PCs for many of their daily activities, and will be able to connect wirelessly to the schools internal network." (Beta News) Officials in New York are also talking to Microsoft about doing the same thing for their schools. Many are touting this school as the "way it should be done" for the future of education. The Philadelphia school is high school serving grades 9-12, but the Microsoft-ized school may hold possibilities for middle and grade schools as well. The newly christened school also makes work easier on teachers by eliminating much paperwork. [Via Beta News]
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Subscribe to commentsJacob BardeSep 9th 2006 8:59PM
I think this is great. The post and the content, but mostly the content. What a great idea, and to see that its happening is phenomenal. I hope that nonpartisan studies are published, and made widely available. I dont know how significant this is in terms of its effect on our country's competetiveness with other educational systems, but I'll bet theres few reasonable arguments for its negative or wasteful impact on productivity (students and staff) and/or budgets. Any Thoughts?
AvatarSep 11th 2006 3:25PM
It goes beyond money, tech and a pretty campus, MS has redone the school organization from the way teachers do their classes to the way student iteraction goes, there is a atention stat system that help determine if a class understood the teacher that is made by fast but multithreaded questions polls. fi the stundt then cheats on those, then it´s his own fault since those stats don´t count to the grade and just serve as guidance..
it´s not different from the mac powered campus from a time ago where the entire classes from a day were uploaded to ipod so students could re-hear them or hear them out for the first time if they didn´´t paid atention,macbooks for the classes and a button based interaction with teacher polls. etc.
And before someone says: so they copied it too?.. the answer is....a little bit... but extending way way further.