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Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars?
Comment I suspect it will be widely reported on, studied and included in the curriculum of all the major business schools very shortly. Compiled at JFK Airport whilst waiting for BA 178 to fly me home via London Heathrow. [14 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Introduced in 1981, the machine was a runaway success for Cambridge-based Acorn Computers, which anticipated it would shift 12,000 but went on to sell 1.5 million, with a BBC being the machine of choice for UK schools. [07 Oct 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment It was refreshing and enlightening to go into some London schools and youth groups and actually talk to children. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story. After working in... [24 Aug 2009]
"I am frankly not much excited by technology per se"
Comment We support schools, libraries, trading standards, treasury, museums, property services, procurement, social care, transport management, democratic services, and the usual corporate services as well as other councils and... [22 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.03.09
Round-Up Second, there was the report that primary schools are planning to teach kids how to use Twitter, Wikipedia and blogging and spend less time studying history, which again prompted the Round-Up to resent the fact it was... [27 Mar 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment And while use of the internet was forbidden until 1999, the government has since been much more encouraging of its adoption of broadband infrastructure is being rolled out fast, connecting all schools and making the... [24 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up Instead, the latest teaching aid for schools is chief Transformer Optimus Prime, or at least his robot cousin. But one cherished memory is the time the computer 'lab' took first delivery of six Dragon 32s. [23 Jan 2009]
Inbox: Banking on tech, ID cards, Oxbridge answers
Comment Karen - The business schools and accepted wisdom of both economics and politics certainly have a lot of blame to share here. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments... [24 Oct 2008]
Back to reality for Bangalore
Comment But the schools are already planning to offset an expected slowdown in placements by inviting more companies. In India's top management schools, including the Bangalore branch of the Indian Institute of... [30 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment Think about the number of school buses used to transport children from villages to ever consolidating schools. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com... [11 Sep 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. Given that most children find school lessons boring, one has to ask why there is a belief that introducing a subject into... [09 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment If schools used and taught computers using open source software then perhaps students would see the possibilities in a career in IT. The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring"... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Is this at all surprising given that IT has been a "sink" subject in schools for the last few years, with the best schools not even carrying it as a GCSE option. When you look at what the government... [22 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment These groups include those preventing base station towers being erected close to their schools or in the middle of their communities. Schools, colleges and universities advise against - or even ban - the... [04 Mar 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment But for these schools the innovation relates to how standard syllabus education has been provided, whereas the needs in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa, many South American countries and the burgeoning markets of China,... [07 Feb 2008]
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