Technology
The Notre Dame campus is well updated with the current technology. Each teacher is equipped with a laptop, their choice of PC or Macintosh, with which they record grades and attendance, as well as use to enhance the learning experience. There are also several carts of laptops which teachers may borrow for classroom use. These carts are equipped with Macintosh laptops, as the computer lab is equipped with Macintosh desktops. PCs, though less dominant, are also available to students. Two half-year computer courses in seventh and eighth grade are geared towards not only computer literacy, but also an understanding of the Macintosh platform. The school is equipped with a secure wireless network as well as a network of Ethernet cables through the building. Also utilized are projectors, overheads, the ELMO (a modern variant on the overhead which does not require transparent sheets), as well as several SmartBoards (a touchscreen white board onto which the computer desktop is projected) and AirLiners (a wireless touch tablet which allows interaction with a computer without physically using the computer).
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“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)
“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)