Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades ago, prophets of the information age foretold a marvelous revolution. The world's storehouses of knowledge would become instantly available to young minds. Captivating digital landscapes would bring history, geography and science alive on a screen. Not since Gutenberg, they exulted, had there been such a powerful new tool for learning. Their bold predictions were not wrong, just premature. Computers are indeed everywhere in American schools, but they are generally used as little more than electronic workbooks for drill, or as places for kids to play games during ``free choice'' periods. The promised revolution has failed to materialize...
...Bard's life and times. Jacqui D'Aiutolo circles the room as her students work. She has been teaching Macbeth for more than 15 years and, though she first regarded computers and literature as ``strange bedfellows,'' she has been amazed to see how students can deploy this modern tool to plumb the meaning of old texts. She has found that her own role has changed: she is less a lecturer than a resource and guide, helping students refine their own questions and assisting in their search for answers. The incisiveness of their work has stunned her. Says D'Aiutolo...
...administration has no incentive to grant power to an organization that does not have substantial support from the student body it represents. When the council is able to act as the tool of a united vocal student body, the administration will owe it the power that Harvard undergraduates deserve...
...student, Inati Ntshanga '95, charged police last spring with racial harassment in a December, 1992 arrest. Ntshanga, who is Black, was arrested for trespassing in the basement of Matthews Hall when he was working for Harvard Student Agencies--his key was named the burglary tool...
...across almost all aspects of American life, including the spiritual realm. Whereas religious leaders are enjoying a modest comeback in credibility, according to the Yankelovich Monitor, Americans want to keep their own counsel. ``We're finding that people are uncertain about things, but they've got their own moral tool kits,'' says Alan Wolfe, chairman of the sociology department at Boston University. ``So you can say authority has broken down, but you can also say that people have a great opportunity to make up their own understanding of the world. A lot of people are very excited by this...