Having now discovered this mailing list, I will point you at a lengthy
essay I wrote last spring on applying netbooks to high school
("secondary") education, especially STEM ("Science Technology
Engineering Mathematics" - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields ). It was inspired by a USA
federal program deploying netbooks at a rural Georgia high school
sited in the transition zone between exurban Atlanta and Appalachia.It is the sort of place which, almost incredibly, only recently "discovered" and started respecting settled federal case law an entire half-century old, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaFZwXaY8o . No doubt when stubborn reactionaries in other USA regions started screaming about this now-long-ago rollback of unconstitutional theocracy, the people here were too busy screaming about having to finally attend public schools with Nigerians - only that wasn't the word they used. Defying federal law is an old vice in Haralson County, as illustrated by a Web page about its history of alcohol production, prepared for a recent Smithsonian Museum-on-Main-Street exhibit, online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gahchs/KeyIngredients/Moonshine.htm I did not move here until middle age, for the sake of enjoying isolation from others. Happily, I spent the childhood years of my minority elsewhere in the USA, where kids learned to take care of themselves if they wanted to grow up, as illustrated by a now-forgotten film set there not many years before I came along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwARWNMuVI Find the essay in question at http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/o/docdtv/Education/HCHSnetbooks/ Ron _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
