Island colleges embracing educational technology - S.I. Advance

On Grymes Hill next month, every entering student at St. John's University will receive a university-issued wireless laptop computer -- a telling beginning to their college careers.

Down the road at Wagner College, freshmen will file into a history course and be introduced to the Middle Ages with a projected image: A bishop depicted on the lid of a burial vault as a skeleton ravaged by the Black Death.

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