These and other education investments leverage technology in ways that make learning easier, faster and more rewarding--from facilitating distance learning, to constructing computer labs, to providing cutting-edge equipment to innovative teachers around the world.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
When the computer calculates that the round has flown the requisite distance, it issues the instruction to detonate.
Eight computer generations--that's about the same distance as from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle.
The monitor works with software made by DigitalOptics Corporation, and, like a worried mother, will remind you to straighten your back, keep your distance from the display, and take breaks from sitting at the computer.
When the round is fired, the internal computer counts the number of rotations it makes, to calculate the distance flown.
In 2001 Susan, tired of managing the properties from a distance and yearning for Florida, moved to Sanibel, where she continued her computer work through 2003.
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.
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