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Turkle, Sherry – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
The author has been a witness to the birth of the personal computer culture, with its intense one-on-one relationships with machines, and then to the development of the networked culture, with people using the computer to communicate with each other. In her most recent work on the revolutions in social networking and sociable robotics, she sees a…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Computer Networks, Social Networks, Computers
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Agee, Anne; Rowe, Theresa; Woo, Melissa; Woods, David – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
A 2006 ECAR study defined cyberinfrastructure as the coordinated aggregate of "hardware, software, communications, services, facilities, and personnel that enable researchers to conduct advanced computational, collaborative, and data-intensive research." While cyberinfrastructure was initially seen as support for scientific and…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Research and Development, Research Universities, Computer Uses in Education
Panettieri, Joseph C. – Campus Technology, 2007
University CIOs and their municipal counterparts will need to ensure that broadband systems provide plenty of bandwidth for hundreds of different devices used by thousands--and perhaps even millions--of users. Some university WiFi networks are already clogged with too many users. Moreover, universities must somehow provide wireless network access…
Descriptors: Privacy, Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Computer Security
Zimmerman, Isa Kaftal, Ed.; Hayes, Mary Forte, Ed. – 1998
This yearbook for the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD) provides educators with models of successful practices and raises questions and potential solutions to issues of accountability, policy, long-term planning, funding, and student motivation for learning. This 1998 yearbook assists educators at all…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Foley, Dorothy M. – Principal, 1993
One Massachusetts elementary school, desegregated and rebuilt with a complete system of state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure, has shown how technology can influence school restructuring and student achievement. School's technology is integrated into the whole curriculum. Garfield School's experience shows that computers can benefit both…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Desegregation Effects
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Malfitano, Rocco; Cincotta, Phil – T.H.E. Journal, 1993
Describes a magnet school in Revere, Massachusetts, developed around the theme of a technology-based curriculum for the purpose of integrating the district made up predominately of Southeast Asian students. Discusses the shcool's design, instruction and administration, library services, computer laboratories, and instructional adjustments made by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education