Stephen Downes

. Thegrant is part of the Palm Education Pioneer project.Administered by the Stanford Research Institute's Center forTechnology in Learning, the PEP aims to monitor the effect ofhandheld devices in the classroom. The goal? To betterunderstand how handhelds might be integrated into both schoolcurricula and teacher training. All this philanthropy has a direfootnote: Yesterday Palm released its fourth quarter earningsreport, stating that