NextGenWeb recently attended the Alliance for Public Technology luncheon “bringing educational opportunities to rural and urban America”. The event included a live demonstration of PEBBLES. PEBBLES is an innovative system that combines video conferencing technologies with simple robotics technology to allow medically fragile students confined in the hospital or at home to attend his/her school. Stephen Wooten, the second place winner of APT’s “how broadband changed my life contest” spoke about the educational opportunities that were opened to him through broadband technology. The event also featured findings from a forthcoming report examining the impacts of IT on education. Robert Atkinson president of the information technology and innovation foundation discussed how IT and broadband can improve education.

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