The IT-in-education challenge
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- UK must invest in IT training, body warns. // People Management;1/13/2005, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p10
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- BCS and professional groups call for wider university IT
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- Experiences of NOF from the classroom. Edwards, Julie-ann; Wright, David // Micromath;Spring2002, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p47
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- One disk, no paper. Fletcher, Zoe // Management in Education (Education Publishing Worldwide Ltd);2002, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p36
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- Intel teacher ICT blitz hits 500,000. Ghose, Dipika // IT Training;Nov2002, p6
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- Science teachers and leading scientists meet. // Investigating: Australian Primary & Junior Science Journal;May97, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p27
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- CONFERENCES. // IT Professional;Nov/Dec2008, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p60
A calendar of conferences related to information technology in the U.S. is presented including Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education meeting, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems and Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference.
- Stop bluster over IT for ID cards. // Computer Weekly;7/5/2005, p22
The article reports that British home secretary Charles Clarke struggled in the ID Cards Bill debate last week. His attempt to show that the government has a strong track record in running large-scale IT projects backfired badly. The examples chosen by Clarke smacked of desperation. The...
