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“Technology that allows gamers to control game functions with only their eyes is helping to open virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft to people with severe motor disabilities.”

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As online learning becomes more of a strategic resource for K-12 and higher-education institutions to supplement traditional courses, education leaders are starting to discuss how online learning can help support minority students’ instructional needs.

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“Lost amid the debate over what kind of laptop to give to each child in the developing world is a more important question: Is the personal computer the right device for bridging the digital divide?”

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“Problems at One Laptop Per Child show how social entrepreneurs can blaze trails but miss the payoff.”

Christian Science Monitor

“Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago”

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What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world?

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Birmingham city schools will be the first in the nation to receive laptop computers designed for children in third-world countries under an agreement completed over the weekend, Mayor Larry Langford announced Monday.

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Underwood, J. D. M. (2007). Rethinking the Digital Divide: impacts on studenttutor

relationships. European Journal of Education, 27(2), 213.222.

This paper presents a Marxist analysis of the current function and role of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, with specific reference to schooling in the UK.

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