Higher Learning J/A - 2006
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NEWS
PROJECTS
TECH TOOLS @ WORK
WEB SITES

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News
• Biotechnology symposium explores critical issues
• Duke showcases advances in classroom technology
• Hill-Rom gives $1 million to help build simulated clinical laboratory
• WNIR-LP is now on the air at 95.5 FM
• Hats off to webcast convocation at University
of Toronto
• Pratt Institute earns stellar rankings
• Prairie State College data wiped out
• Nova Scotia university bans anti-cheating software

Projects
• Computers save the squirrels
• Computer helps battle terrorism
• Eighty below and loving it: Montana State University scientists to get a new cold lab
• Portable surgical robots equal lower costs
• Millsaps students find true meaning of “service learning”
• Surgeons treat “silent killer” using high-tech device
• New York Institute of Technology enters the “madness”: computer graphics students animate NCAA’s centennial logo
• Undersea Window Project
• Engineers creating small wireless device to improve cancer treatment
• MIT SPHERES are aboard the International Space station – may the force be with them
• NYLS students present innovative social justice technology projects
• Boardroom bosses and university profs will hook up online
• Brown University and Microsoft create research centre for pen-centric computing

Tech Tools @ Work
• SMU profs click with students
• Performance artist: English prof Nick Mount
keeps students tuned into large classroom
• Media on Demand on the Alberta SuperNet
• Researcher rethinks computer security

Web Sites
• Carnegie Hall Performance Guides
• Electronic portfolio at Seton Hall University
• Name that tune!
• Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners
• VENUS
• Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
hooks up with iTunes
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FEATURE

PC Tablets and Learning:
A Well-Designed Toy or a Functional Tool?

By Simon Gauci
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Are new high-tech thingamajigs just superficial toys disguised as helpful learning tools?
Do they truly help the teacher and students? More
importantly, will they enhance learning? Inevitably,
like most widgets stepping into our lives, some will come – and some will go. Strolling onto scores of colleges campuses
across North America are tablet PCs. Some university
freshmen, like those at Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s Engineering School, will be required to use a tablet PC. Others, like those at the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
in Pennsylvania, have had a tablet PC pilot program
since 2004. And Washington State University is using
tablet PCs with Presenter 2.1 software integrated
into selected classes.
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FEATURE

Looking at History Using Technology
of the Future

By Krista Glen
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Aside from delivering course content such as insight-related management, finance, accounting, market, statistics and other relevant topics, today’s university professors face additional challenges. They need to learn how to engage a generation of learners who are technology-enabled. Correctly or incorrectly, associated with this generation are many characteristics, including a fascination with video games and other forms of visual stimulation, a need to always be online and connected, and a need for instant gratification.
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