A wireless phone that can go through a wringer
One of the perks of this column is a chance to try electronic gadgets - especially during the holidays, when gadget shopping reaches the frenzy stage. After all these years, however, it takes a pretty good gadget to get my attention. Here are a couple that passed the test this year because (a) they solve real, if not terribly important problems, and (b) they're fun to use. By coincidence, each costs $299, which seems to be a popular limit for impulse-buying these days. .
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Berkshire Wireless Initiative:
As the New Year dawned, the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative rolled out 711 laptops for seventh-grade students at Herberg and Reid middle schools in Pittsfield, Silvio O. Conte Middle School in North Adams, and St. Mark School in Pittsfield. It was the beginning of an ambitious pilot project that is putting laptops in the hands of children, giving them an educational tool for the classroom and the home. The goal is to improve education and student achievement by getting children more interested in learning. The children have used the computers to do research online, type reports, produce graphs, and make music and movies. They can even take the Apple iBook G4 laptops home. As the program runs, it is being studied by Boston College's Lynch School of Education, which will try to determine whether it is an effective way to improve education.
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One of the perks of this column is a chance to try electronic gadgets - especially during the holidays, when gadget shopping reaches the frenzy stage. After all these years, however, it takes a pretty good gadget to get my attention. Here are a couple that passed the test this year because (a) they solve real, if not terribly important problems, and (b) they're fun to use. By coincidence, each costs $299, which seems to be a popular limit for impulse-buying these days. .
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Berkshire Wireless Initiative:
As the New Year dawned, the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative rolled out 711 laptops for seventh-grade students at Herberg and Reid middle schools in Pittsfield, Silvio O. Conte Middle School in North Adams, and St. Mark School in Pittsfield. It was the beginning of an ambitious pilot project that is putting laptops in the hands of children, giving them an educational tool for the classroom and the home. The goal is to improve education and student achievement by getting children more interested in learning. The children have used the computers to do research online, type reports, produce graphs, and make music and movies. They can even take the Apple iBook G4 laptops home. As the program runs, it is being studied by Boston College's Lynch School of Education, which will try to determine whether it is an effective way to improve education.
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