Get the latest headlines each day:
Wired Campus e-newsletter | RSS

In the Comments

Courtesy, to use one example, is something that computers cannot quite teach yet. Whether computers ever become the sophisticated teachers Arthur C Clarke envisioned in Songs of Distant Earth remains to be seen. The present certainty is that computers can be useful tools, but nobody has quite figured out how to use them effectively in the classroom. Don’t forget, von Neumann, Woz, Alan Turing, et al., were all educated with chalkboards. --payam.minoofar.com

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Says Education Was a Primary Motivation for His Inventions

Recent Posts

Submit to Wired Campus
Tell us about stories we should be covering, and what you don't like.

Wired Campus Writers

Categories

April 28, 2006

Undercover Online

An undergraduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was so horrified by the prevalence of online sexual predators that he took matters into his own hands.

The student, Kevin Cope, started posing online as a 13-year-old girl. When one online coversation steered toward sexual topics and the possibility of a meeting, Mr. Cope reported it to the police.

They assumed the identity of the 13-year-old and continued the conversations. After seven online chats, police arrested a man from Jackson Township, Pa.  (WJAC-TV)

Comments

1. Kudos to Kevin who did not just sit back and talk about the evils in our world. Being proactive and including the police is definitely what we need more of. He should receive official recognition from the city.

   — Cynthia Underwood    Apr 29, 02:57 AM    #

Commenting is closed for this article.

Previous: Facebook Turns to the (Corporate) World
Next: No More Free iPods at Duke