Hardware

Curriculum Tech-Savvy Youngsters Getting a New Type of Lesson
The increasing use of computers in schools is raising a dilemma that educators can't shrug away: When and how should students learn to type?
Mary Ann Zehr, March 31, 1999
8 min read
IT Infrastructure & Management Bill Gates on Education, Philanthropy, and Track Balls
Bill Gates talked about a plan to create technical standards that would help schools develop a "digital nervous system."
Andrew Trotter, March 3, 1999
5 min read
IT Infrastructure & Management Spinning A Web
NetDay96, the highly publicized volunteer effort in March to wire California's schools for computer networks, will go nationwide in October, with as many as 40 states expected to stage one-day events.
Andrew Trotter, September 4, 1996
4 min read
IT Infrastructure & Management Burglar Alarm
Social studies teacher Guadalupe De La Torre was making copies in his high school's faculty lounge about 6 a.m. one day last March, and he didn't give a second thought to whether the nearby laptop computer he had been using was safe. He should have.
Peter West, September 4, 1996
4 min read
Classroom Technology Opinion Computers Meet Classroom; Classroom Wins
Why is it that with so much talk of information technologies computers are used far less in schools than in other organizations?
Larry Cuban, November 11, 1992
13 min read