There is a huge opportunity in the intersection between tablet computers and education: two young Italian entrepreneurs decided to explore it, launching Timbuktu, first News magazine for children on the iPad.
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There are many decisions that individuals could make that would improve the economic status of the U.S. For example, individuals could spend less on cigarettes, gambling, and alcohol and more on computers, mobile phones, and education.
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She has made closing the Middle East's "knowledge divide" -- the gap in knowledge that has grown as a result of people in richer countries having more access to computers, the Internet and education than those in poorer countries -- a top priority over the next few years in the hope that it will unlock the economic potential of the region's population.
CTCs are public housing facilities, libraries and community centers nationwide designed to provide myriad services, including work force development and employment information, pre-school and family programs and adult education, all of which use computers and information technology to meet people's needs.
Imagine how different the world would be if we could not only use smart phone and tablet computers and the like to deliver every kid the education they deserve and if that education was built around this kind of pattern recognition.
Apple Computer Inc. designs, manufactures and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communicating solutions for sale primarily to education, creative, consumer and business customers.
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We have the opportunity to develop an expertise in offshore wind that takes its rightful place with other Massachusetts industries like biotech, education, and computers.
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We see educational campaigns in the schools where when we push computers into a classroom we also push education on the responsibility in the use of the those computers, and we start seeing some of these criminals become prosecuted, and we start seeing the deterrent factor.
"If girls take interest, and we find more girls want education in computers, we'll add more, " Arora said.
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The Apple iPad will dominate an influx of tablet computers into classrooms this fall, according to an education technology expert and industry reports.
Two decades after the first mainstream rollout of computers in schools we have learned many significant lessons about ICT in Education and their potential transforming impact on national education systems.
"Now if you go into schools you are going to see more computers, " says Lawrence Cuban, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University and an expert on innovations in teaching methods.
The promise of America says we will guarantee quality education for all children and not spend more money on metal detectors than computers in our schools.
The FPI found that the largest number of Indian-born small-business owners are in education, health and social services, followed by leisure and hospitality and computers and technology.
The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.
Faced with critics who argued he should concentrate on the classic development issues that keep people poor and sick rather than doling out high-tech gear, Mr Negroponte would rightly reply that education through computers can help resolve all such problems.
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