Where Big-City Schools Meet "Microsoft Smarts"

Autor/in	Borja, Rhea R.
Titel	Where Big-City Schools Meet "Microsoft Smarts"
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2006) 4, S.32-35 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Computer Networks; Educational Facilities; Partnerships in Education; Experimental Schools; Futures (of Society); Technological Advancement; Technology Uses in Education; Program Descriptions; High Schools; School Buildings; Educational Innovation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computernetz; Computernetze; Kommunikationsnetz; Bildungsstätte; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Pilot school; Model school; Modellschule; Future; Society; Zukunft; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; High school; Oberschule; School building; Schulgebäude; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation
Abstract	This article talks about a new school built, which is called "School of the Future," which was born of a partnership between the Philadelphia public schools and the world's leading software-maker, Microsoft Corp. A gleaming white building on the edge of a blighted West Philadelphia neighborhood, the $62 million school garnered wide attention when it opened this month, in part because of its technological bells and whistles. Those futuristic features include a tablet personal computer for each student, interactive digital whiteboards, a supercharged wireless network, customized educational software, and digital "smart cards" to open lockers and pay for meals--all making possible a virtually paperless environment. Aside from Microsoft Corp., the school has other corporate partners, such as the: (1) Blackburn, England-based Promethean Group Technologies Ltd., which provides the school's whiteboards; (2) Sunnyvale, California-based Meru Networks, which installs the wireless computer network; (3) and Gateway Inc., based in Irvine, California, which provides laptop computers to the students and staff. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10