Technology isn’t just providing a distraction for students; it’s
also lowering the cost of educating them. We reported earlier in
the month about the $60 million dollar joint effort, edX, by MIT
and Harvard to offer free, online, college courses. In this
case, universities are using technology to expand global access
to education. However, technology isn’t just changing how
instruction is delivered. It can also make traditional
approaches less costly. The Woodland Joint Unified School
District in Northern California just outside of Sacramento
serves over 10,000 students. The district replaced 300 aging PCs
in five K-12 computer labs with Pano Logic’s Zero Client
systems. The decision is creating notable cost savings. Pano
Logic’s virtual desktops have no CPU, memory, operating system,
drivers, software or moving parts. If you are wondering, Pano’s
technology is not the digital equivalent of a pet rock. Pano
Zero Client only exists to connect USB peripherals such as a
keyboard or monitor to a virtual machine,