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The Digital Divide: What's Good Enough?


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Computers: One Size Fits All!!!!
          
Posted to the EduTopia site:

   The Digital Divide: How good is good enough?

   It always devolves to this: In order to get
   computers, it falls to the formula: How can
   we get the most computers for the money? And
   when they arrive, they all run the standard
   S/W set (eg, M/S Word, Safari, etc), but none
   of them is able to run any of the high-end
   applications that are state of the art. And
   it ends up we (read that as "nobody here but
   us chickents") having to bring in our our own
   personal computers, set them up and show the
   software that represents what *can* be done 
   with computers. Those nice looking laptops
   are beautiful to look at, but without a 
   decent graphics chip set they can't run the
   rendering, modeling, etc S/W that is at the
   core of the new techno generation of on-line
   life that we are supposed to be teaching.
   But still hopeful - blind fool that i am,
   Franklin Twine (Second Life).



  

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