Technology
In 2006, Gilmour constructed a new 800-square-foot (74 m2) Broadcast Media Center designed to help students learn to work with digital media technology and become more critical media consumers. The facility houses video editing and audio dubbing stations, a news set with studio space, and Avid digital video editing software similar to that used by professionals in the film and television industries.
The Gilmour campus contains approximately 400 computers, the majority of which run Microsoft Windows 7, at the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools. The Gilmour Virtual Library, a web site developed in-house by library staff, includes research resources for many projects and topics. Gilmour provides high-speed access to the Internet via a dual T1 connection from every classroom and computer lab on campus. Many classrooms are wired for multimedia capabilities to assist with instruction and project presentations, and a wireless network is available in certain areas on campus.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)