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Turning a School Bus Ride into a Rolling Wi-Fi Zone

The New York Times:

On this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down a mountain highway just before dawn, high school students are quiet, typing on laptops.

Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared.

“It’s made a big difference,” said J. J. Johnson, the bus’s driver. “Boys aren’t hitting each other, girls are busy, and there’s not so much jumping around.”

Man, kids these days… why, back in my day, we just had our Gameboys to play with. And, more often than not, they had black and white screens. BLACK AND WHITE SCREENS. Can you imagine the horror?

Feb 12, 2010 :: Tagged under: , , , :: #