Sentences with phrase «old school computer»

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Here we had a pharmaceutical product used to treat impotency (I'm old school with the terminology) on the one hand, and computer peripheral devices (e.g. printers) on the other.

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

According to a police report, she said 14 - year - old Nikolas had refused to go to school that day, so she took away his Xbox «privileges» and stashed the computer game system in her vehicle.

Some tablet computers have white board capabilities so there's a not - so - old - school option for using this strategy.

The Monarch School of New England, which serves children with special needs, had about 24 aging computers at its Rochester, N.H. campus, ranging from seven to 10 years old.

Unlike old - school «design your own coupon book» titles, this book moves straight into computer technology and proceeds to the latest trend in couponing... apps, which provide deals to mobile users in any location.

The idea here was to slide away from old - school toys (Barbies and Hot Wheels) and towards CD - ROM and computer users.

So much of what I do is on the other side of a computer, just me pecking away here at my sticky laptop in the middle of my pink 90s kitchen while Evelynn naps and the older tinies are at school.

«When we were at school and we had an hour on the computer me and my mates would watch old highlights of them.

The private school in Burlington has an «old school» attitude towards technology, banning computers from its classrooms and having no Wi - Fi capability throughout the Orchard Road facility....

Timothy was not old enough for school (they don't start until six in that region) so spent two years at home, where he became a fluent reader, a competent speller, and considerably more computer literate than me.

And if they're using childcare for an older child, parents can teach the child how to send simple messages on a cell phone, tablet or school computer.

Quick Hits: The family of a 13 - year - old Bronx girl say they will sue the Department of Education, claiming the girl was repeatedly raped by a computer repairman employed at her Harlem school.

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While not working on satellite devices, she visits schools, taking younger children on a computer - simulated «Tour of the Universe» and talking to older ones about the highlights of her career in science.

Going back to school to meet the 4 - year - olds who are learning to program computers thanks to a new graphics - based coding language

Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a computer program to find new indications for old drugs.

When trained on recordings of 90 people making four vowel sounds, old - school computers performed the task with relative ease: A computer simulating a 16 - neuron network was right 92 % of the time.

My computer is down and I'm on my phone right now (I'm not a huge fan of reading on my phone - I'm old school) however there are several articles this week that peaked my interest — and pins!

You can't look me in the eye and tell me it's okay for «Wealthy William the 8 year old» to get a shiny new iPad and a computer lab with brand new iMacs when «Poor Patrick the 8 year old» attends a school with computers 10 - 15 + years old and no where near enough technology resources for every child in the school to regularly utilize.

FINANCIAL REVIEW - Dec 27 - Louise O'Connor and husband Brett Couston are combining the power of computers to crunch data with old - school face - to - face meetings.

I'm 22 years old currently trying to get myself back into school for gen eds and going for my major I want to for electronic & computer engineering.

I am a Professional SSBBW who is an old - school, new age, right brain thinking computer geek who loves almost anything to do with art!

My Name is David im 23 yrs old im full japanise i have two older bros i live my parents im single and im fun to be with and fun to talk to im going school part time im majoring in Computers anything else just hit me up Pretty Mamas

With the constant onslaught of modern technology and people interacting behind the screen of a smart phone or computer screen, the old school etiquette of romancing someone is dying a slow painful death!

I am a 25 year old male who is currenty in school for computers.

Garland's alien biodome is a trippy mixture of tactile old school hardware and computer - generated images.

While it doesn't wander far off the beaten track, those who resent the global proliferation of computers and our increased dependency on machines will likely applauded the portrayal of old school tactics eventually trumping this new world order.

Are you an «old school» art teacher who needs a cheap and easy way to get your middle school art students started in computer graphics?

Start - up costs for computers, teacher training, and to carve new schools out of old facilities can be a showstopper for financially pressed school districts.

Are you an «old school» art teacher who needs a cheap and easy way to get your art students started in computer graphics?

The project, which they produced with an outdated version of Flash on an old computer, so impressed school board members that they gave him funding for more computers and improved software.

In 2012, 96 per cent of 15 - year - olds in the OECD countries taking part in PISA reported they have a computer at home, but only 72 per cent said they used one at school.

According to the OECD's analysis, 96 per cent of 15 year - olds in OECD countries had a computer at home as of 2012, while only 72 per cent reported to use a desktop, laptop or tablet at school.

Either way, the old - school visual computer interface can bring a new element to your eLearning course.

So when I recently learned that PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment, a worldwide evaluation of 15 - year - old school pupils» scholastic performance — and one of the main sources of concern over the state of reading, math, and science education in the US) had released an overview of performance in digital reading, navigation and computer use in 2009, I was excited.

You can even use an old - school computer format to immerse them and remove web distractions from the equation.

And there are examples like those of the Salesian School in Hong Kong, which provides their old computers to low - income students.

This includes recommendations suggesting that: primary schools should bring in outside experts to teach coding; all primaries should have 3D printers and design software; secondary schools should be able to teach Computer Science, Design and Technology or another technical / practical subject in place of a foreign language GCSE; the Computer Science GCSE should be taken by at least half of all 16 year olds; young apprenticeships should be reintroduced at 14, blending a core academic curriculum with hands - on learning; all students should learn how businesses work, with schools linked to local employers; schools should be encouraged to develop a technical stream from 14 - 18 for some students, covering enterprise, health, design and hands - on skills; and that universities should provide part - time courses for apprentices to get Foundation and Honours degrees.

In 2012, virtually all 15 - year - old students in OECD countries had a computer at home, but less than three - quarters used a computer or tablet at school, and in some countries it was fewer than half.

The curriculum includes workshops in carpentry, baking, and computer skills for primary school students, and similar apprenticeships for older children.

There is no longer an ideal time for formal instruction because younger and younger children are imitating older siblings and parents by wanting to work with computers, and more software is being developed just for them,» explained Cruzan, a teacher at Southwest High School in Minneapolis.

As Gates pointed out, «Training the workforce of tomorrow with the high schools of today is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50 - year - old mainframe.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

This is as limiting as an old - school computer game, offering only one path to success and rewarding only one kind of learner.

One of the few girls taking technology - related classes at G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton, N.Y., the 15 - year - old fought back her initial anxiety and now works well with male students in a computer - enhanced technical drawing, design, and production class.

Conversely, some schools have always had an ICT suite of 30 computers and as they get older they begin to slow down, the school simply goes out and buys the same again because that's what they've always done.

A woman who wears many hats, Laura Blankenship is a mother of two, a prolific blogger on the nearly decade - old Geeky Mom blog, and the computer science chair at The Baldwin School, an all - girls private preparatory sSchool, an all - girls private preparatory schoolschool.

One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works best at that moment, until the student meets the learning objective.