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Comment teaching kids with computers (Score 1) 378

by far1h8 (#25857873) Attached to: How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology?
As a student let me say this: kids only need computers in libraries, computer labs, etc. for research and writing essays. Giving kids access to computers in the classroom is just distracting. Computers should only be in the classroom when the teacher is doing something like giving a presentation, otherwise let's not try and distract kids.
Education

Re-purposing a Student Tech Service Group? 185

Posted by Soulskill from the quake-3-server-farm dept.
discards writes "I help run a student group at a Canadian University. For almost 15 years we've provided students with services such as web space, email, wireless internet on campus, cvs/svn, database access, mailing lists, etc., all using Linux and FOSS. In recent years, however, we have faced becoming obsolete. The university now provides wireless access, people get their email from other places such as Google, which also provides free svn access, web space, and so forth. Since we have a large amount of decent, usable hardware, as well as space, funding and a very fast internet connection, we are looking to possibly reform instead of just withering away and dying. We would like to ask Slashdot for ideas as to what we could do; preferably something that cultivates student research or provides an otherwise useful service to students, though all ideas are welcome."
Books

The Tell-All Campus Tour 34

Posted by timothy from the oh-it's-probably-not-all dept.
theodp writes "Want to check out colleges without the bother of having to read about them? Well, my YouTube-loving friend, the NY Times reports that old-school elephantine dead-tree college guidebooks may be a thing of the past thanks to startup unigo.com, which has launched a free, gigantic, student-generated web-based guide to North American colleges that's laden with photos, Flip-shot videos and reviews (OK, you may have to do some reading)."

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