Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Homework in the future may not be any less laborious, but it will certainly be more wired. And as more children gain access to computers and the Net--75% of teens and 47% of kids ages 2 to 12 are expected to be online by 2002--schools and technology companies are responding with unique assignments and high-tech homework help for parents and kids. On the menu...
...what they find. "Even at the best schools, you used to be limited by how much you could pack into one little library," says Judy Breck, an educator for 20 years and now the content master at Homework Central, a commercial homework-help website. "Now if you have Web access, you're only limited by what's known...
...magnetic stripe on the card simply allows the system to gain access to the related account...
...visualize the card is as the hub of a wheel, and the spokes are the uses of the card: dining access, dorm access, getting into libraries, at [University] Health Services," he says...
...instance, he and Cross say, Duke University has a system by which students, instead of buying actual tickets for sporting events, just get a special access privilege added to their card...