technology

School Highlights Tech-Based Learning

Flo Jonic — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:27:12 +0000

Online learning is a tool in many Rhode Island classrooms. But a charter school opening next fall in Providence takes high tech to a whole new level.

General Assembly Web Site Adds Streaming Video

Ian Donnis — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:20:57 +0000

The General Assembly Web site is adding live video streaming that will allow viewers to watch up to four committee meetings at the same time, as well as House and Senate sessions.

The content will be archived for viewing through the Web site, according to a news release:

Currently, Capitol TV airs a live House session and taped the Senate session to broadcast after. Without web-streaming, the channel could only broadcast one live committee meeting at a time.

Cyber-security comes of age as a media hot topic

Ian Donnis — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:10:19 +0000

Cyber-security -- a topic long championed by Congressman Jim Langevin -- has finally emerged as a bona fide hot topic.

Tech writer Arik Hesseldahl offers this overview Tuesday, in a piece ominously headlined, "Cyberwar with China is here, like it or not":

Providence start-up touts itself as “a tool to facilitate democracy”

Ian Donnis — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Lovegov, a Providence startup with three employees, is looking to link would-be political supporters with actual candidates and causes. As MassHighTech.com reports:

How students are learning in school without computers

Elisabeth Harrison — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:51:46 +0000

While schools around the state look for ways to increase their use of technology, some parents are paying thousands of dollars to send their children to a private school with no computers in the classroom at all.