March FNO - Prospecting

[Jamie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

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  Vol 11|No 6|March|2002

This month there are two articles, a book review
and a cartoon.

1) Prospecting for Digital Resources
by Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/mar02/prospecting.html

How can schools maximize a return on technology
investments, backing mostly winners while avoiding
losers?  How can schools ride the curl of innovation
without tumbling into heavy surf?  How can they
escape failure and a vicious undertow?

2) Look before You Leap
by Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/mar02/lookleap.html

Some schools (states and counties) are plunging ahead
buying laptops for every student as if more is necessarily
better. This article offers a planning session that looks at
a number of learning scenarios to see how each is
influenced by abundance.

3) Review: The Connected School
http://fno.org/mar02/connectreview.html

Barbara Means and a team of researchers report
which factors have frustrated technology efforts
in urban schools along with those strategies that
have proven most effective.

4) The March Cartoon
The Home Network Supervisor
http://fno.org/mar02/marcartoon.html
If a family has seven computers, who will set up and maintain their
home network?

Jamie McKenzie
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