http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/06/06/eric-schmidt-information-is-a-tremendous-equalizer/ Emerging virtual education comments and links Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/06/06/eric-schmidt-information-is-a-tremendous-equalizer/comment-page-1/#comment-77027 Golden Swamp » Give smartphones to Washington DC students Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:57:46 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=2575#comment-77027 [...] Something that could bring some potent immediate equality to the DC high school students is to give each of them a smartphone like The President and all the important people on Capitol Hill have — with full access to browse the internet. The smartphone in a student’s hand does not know what color she is or to what school he is assigned. The smartphone is unaware of who the student is who is browsing the internet’s vast knowledge. As I reported here last week, Google CEO told this year’s Carnegie Mellon graduates that “Information is a tremendous ... [...] [...] Something that could bring some potent immediate equality to the DC high school students is to give each of them a smartphone like The President and all the important people on Capitol Hill have — with full access to browse the internet. The smartphone in a student’s hand does not know what color she is or to what school he is assigned. The smartphone is unaware of who the student is who is browsing the internet’s vast knowledge. As I reported here last week, Google CEO told this year’s Carnegie Mellon graduates that “Information is a tremendous … [...]

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