The current structure of our public school system has lead us to a point where both students and teachers are under-performing, and technology will need to play a major role in reinvigorating our schools. Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City School System, …
Armed with Blackberries, iPhones, and laptops, today’s students have a conduit to unlimited knowledge at their fingertips. They’re able to find out how many home runs the Yankees pitched in 1969, who won the Battle of New Orleans, and how many liters can go into …
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Do you know how many apps are available for download right now on Apple’s app store? 200,000? 300,000? Try 500,000. (and counting!) It wasn’t too long ago (2008) that some of the first apps were downloaded. Pandora, Facebook, and Super Monkey Ball were some of …
So I graduated from Harvard yesterday. It was an amazing experience that I was able to accomplish and share thanks to the support of my wonderful wife and family. The weather was beautiful and the campus was spotless. Aside from the grueling pair of 15-hour …
Do you like problem solving? What about entertaining iPad games? If so, you absolutely have to check out Casey’s Contraptions, a fantastic new take on The Incredible Machine. Casey’s Contraptions forces users to think up creative solutions to relatively complex puzzles. As you can see …
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Do you use Qzone? What about Gowalla or Orkut? Thanks to a new infographic by the interactive design agency JESS3, it’s easy to see that there are millions of people using these and the other popular social networks. Just how many you ask? Billions. That’s a lot of social networking.
Now here’s a great incentive for students to take the plunge into purchasing a PC. Microsoft will give students a free XBox 360 with the purchase of a PC priced $699 or more. Rather than watch Apple gobble up all the market share in the …
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Amazon, Apple, Google and many other tech giants have been opening online bookstores with little regard for open source digital textbooks. Many universities, including MIT and Carnegie Mellon, post course lectures online for free use. A New York Times article last year explained some of …
Twitter is intertwined with just about every aspect of the daily life of students, teachers, and everyone else online. That’s why I thought this new infographic by Masters Degree Online makes some interesting points. If you can overlook the spelling errors, you should take a …
$21,000. It’s barely a living wage and would be a terrific salary for someone looking for a job that requires little to no labor or thought. But that’s not the job that my wife was offered.
degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts. The University of Abertay in Dundee will run the Bachelor of Science undergraduate course in “Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures” starting in the next academic year in October.
Millions of students will leave college this year with more than just a diploma. There’s a good chance that the graduating class of 2011 will also be experts in another field: Google Apps for Education. If you attended a university that’s “gone Google” or sought …
There are many social networking platforms available today to share your public self. But where do you go to privately and safely share your personal, day-to-day thoughts and experiences? Flink12 was created as a safe and secure way to share your private life. It is …
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Did you know that Teach For America has seen a 1,130% increase in applications over the last decade? What about the fact that science, engineering, mathematics and technology are the fastest growing areas in terms of applications?
If you’re in the final stretch of the school year, you may have resorted to showing some movies in the classroom. Rather than rely on your DVD collection or school’s library, why not take advantage of Netflix, Hulu, or the newest addition to the streaming world…YouTube Movies!
I was inspired by a recent tweet from Joe Bower, a great person to follow on Twitter, when he posed the above question. How should students use cell phones in school?
Students say the darndest things. From confusing grammatical terms to simply being confused, they’re often quick to summon up a nonsensical string of words at a moment’s notice. Thankfully, a teacher is keeping track of some of the gems on Sh*t My Students Write. Here’s …
Looks like the videoconferencing war is really heating up. Apple has FaceTime across their devices, Chatroulette is supposedly making a comeback, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are back at work on Supyo, and even Skype is back in the news about possible partnerships with Facebook …
One of the most fascinating aspects of learning a new language is how it lets you see how people live in other countries and other cultures. When you speak just the one language and spend almost all of your life in one single country it …
Students typically have insufficient training in project management and enter the working world with inadequate collaborative skills. Furthermore, academic research indicates that faculty guidance can make a huge impact on their development. Enterthegroup.com is a free resource I created to help solve this problem I …