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...Clickers, blogs, and even Google’s Android cell phone are all showing up in classrooms across Harvard’s campus. But many Harvard professors say that though the days of internet-free classrooms may be long over, nothing will replace face to face interactions in the classroom that are the foundation of Harvard’s Cambridge-style education model. According to a recent article in the New York times, institutions are becoming more and more willing to pour scarce dollars into interactive technologies for the classroom. Online institutions like the University of Pheonix, Devry, and even...
...article last Friday, The Crimson made a mistake that reveals reporters to be what we are (for the most part) -- more knowledgable about medieval fairytales than about computer science. In a story about Google's donation of 20 Android cell phones to the notorious introduction to computer science, CS 50, The Crimson quoted instructor David J. Malan '99 praising Google's "dragon drop programming piece" -- a fanciful typo that should have read, "drag and drop." Needless to say, Malan got a kick out of the typo and breathed a bit of fire back at The Crimson. After the jump...
...Sept. 4 news article "Google Donates Cell Phones to CS Classes" misquoted David J. Malan '99 as referring to the language used by the Android cell phones as a "dragon drop programming piece." In fact, he said it was a "drag and drop programming piece...
...installed with Google’s Android operating system, the black flip-phones have also been loaned to students serving as teaching fellows for CS 50, offered this semester. “What was so appealing were Google’s plans for a dragon drop programming piece, a language similar to the language already used in CS 50,” said David J. Malan ’99, the class course instructor. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Students are welcome to tackle most any project they’d like, and these Android phones will empower a handful [of students] this fall to develop some actual mobile apps,” said Malan...