But Card told the Doug Wright Show, the way he understands it, the teacher had also been reading inappropriate material off the Internet to the class.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
Not surprisingly, China leads the way, thanks to a growing Internet-connected middle class, more trust in online shopping, government campaigns to promote consumerism, improved infrastructure, and better product selection and services offered by online sellers and retailers, says eMarketer.
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Each class has its own Internet newsgroup, which allows students to collaborate and post documents whether they are at school or at home.
In response to the revelation that Google bypassed cookie blocking features on browsers such as Safari and Internet Explorer, enterprising lawyers have filed consumer class actions alleging that the practice constitutes illegal wiretapping.
Rajaa Alsanea's novel, set in the form of a gossipy internet blog about four upper-middle-class Saudi girls and their calamitous love lives, was officially banned in Saudi Arabia when it was published in Arabic two years ago (and a lawsuit was briefly filed against the author, fortunately away in America studying dentistry).
You can't take a class these days without immersing yourself in the Internet.
It keeps its costs down by selling direct over the Internet and offers only one car, the Mercedes A class.
The biggest driver of datacenter expansion are the pervasiveness of smartphones and a new class of devices, nicknamed IoT, or Internet of Things.
He dreams that, by the time he turns 60, he will be a world-class master of architecture who bridges the worlds of Internet technology and architectural art.
Two iPads in the rear compartment not only play movies, music and Internet content, they also control all functions of the S-Class COMAND system.
Multiply that by the number of engines (tens of thousands), flights (hundreds of thousands), and then similar machines (hundreds of thousands), and the scale of the data stream moves into the same zetabyte class of data flows Cisco already counts in the existing Internet.
"The students in my class were scared until we learned about the situation via the internet, " he said.
The new C-class sports a host of high-tech features, including internet access, and gets up to 35 miles per gallon.
With the Chinese middle class growing sizably and relocating to urban centers, McKinsey sees Internet users spending more time shopping online.
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As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
The rise of the internet has long been seen as the death-knell for the middle-class musician.
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From this class, we can expect the second-tier innovations of the Internet Age, which will build on foundations already laid down.
At a kindergarten just outside the capital city Tallinn, a class of five year olds crowd around a PC, searching the internet for cartoon websites.
Most of them have laptops or tablets in class, checking their favorite website and learning as much from the internet than from the professors classrooms content.
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The internet has lots of legal sites like this, which promise thousands of top-class titles but in truth resemble the worst shelves of a bad video-rental store.
The world's largest online flea market thought that it could revolutionize the traditional art auction business by creating a vast new class of customers who would bid on high-ticket items over the Internet.
This is especially true for SaaS applications (Ex: salesforce.com, InsideSales.com, Marketo, Act-On) and Internet products (Ex: LinkedIn, Dropbox), as well as traditional enterprise-class premises-based products such as Oracle.
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At the same time, business class hotels are still focused on providing large desks, bright task lighting and internet access in the room to appeal to those who prefer to work in a more private setting.
If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.
The digital divide is real, and the economic downturn hurt many working-class families, forcing them to reduce expenses on luxury items like high-speed Internet access.
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America has to create the next generation of customers who cause new human development, such as the Internet, the auto and aeronautical industries, transistors, satellites, Facebook, everything Apple makes, world-class code, etc.
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