Word: computerize
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TAILOR-MADE ASSIGNMENTS. The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson, each student will sit down to an individual assignment, says Kevin O'Leary, president of educational-software giant the Learning Co. "If you thought of it conceptually as every...
And what's allowed. Exciting as the research potential is, it's also a major plagiarism temptation. Schools in the future may follow the lead of St. Stephens and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va., which emphasizes the "ethical use of technology resources" in its student handbook and in computer...
Yet winning kids over to become fans of homework may take more than high-tech help. Annette Bitter's seventh-graders love doing research on the laptops they got through a Microsoft study. "But of course there are always excuses," says Bitter, who keeps hearing a modern tale of woe...
But Cross is quick to point out that financial information is not actually stored on the card itself. Records of money deposited at any VTS-online or otherwise-goes into a computer database.
So you think you hate spam e-mail. Consider the Chinese authorities. On Wednesday, a Chinese court convicted a software entrepreneur of subversion -- and packed him off to jail for two years -- for giving the e-mail addresses of 30,000 Chinese computer users to a publication called VIP Reference...