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Village school improves w/ help from Microsoft

Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7

What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change

He gave us fund for school [...]

More OLPC’s means more kids and parents educated

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 18 September 2008

“In Uruguay the parents wait for the kids to go to bed so they can use the laptops. So you saw people move to rural communities… so their kids could take advantage of [the laptops]. In Rwanda the families brought electricity to the schools so that the kids could keep using the laptops.”
I find that [...]

Why girls avoid science and math

Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 10 September 2008

So, society – specifically, a perceived lack of support from parents and teachers – is to blame. That doesn’t surprise me, but the study and its results do add fuel to the fire.

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com

New research by a team that includes vocational psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) indicates that the self-confidence instilled by [...]

RP school switches away from FOSS

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 17 July 2008

Wah.
Come on, guys. What’s wrong with learning something new, and saving your school money while you’re at it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

MAKATI City, Philippines — Local school St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) has recently decided to replace its existing open source system to standardize on Windows Vista and the latest Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Philippines said.

Microsoft [...]