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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

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May 31, 2006

An All-Too-Public PDA

It’s an embarrassing revelation for a college to make: We’ve exposed students’ personal information not because we were hacked, but because we misplaced a laptop. Fortunately, only a handful of institutions have had to make such an announcement. Laptops, after all, aren’t all that easy to lose.

PDA’s, on the other hand, can disappear pretty quickly, so the thought of employees walking around with sensitive student information on their BlackBerrys can’t be a pleasant one for campus administrators. Just this week, officials at Miami University of Ohio’s Middletown campus disclosed that a PDA lost by an employee contains private data on about 850 students. (Associated Press)

Do college officials regularly carry sensitive information on their PDA’s? If so, what can administrators do to try to keep that data from leaking?

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