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We here at EduDemic are obsessed with higher ed. The current state of the education system is alarming. We wanted to create an easy-to-read and helpful way to show you just how broken the education system is.
After p...
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There's a new way to let people know you're arriving at a certain location. Forget using your phone or iPad...those are quaint relics. The new way to let your friends and followers know where you are is by having your...
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You've likely heard about Adam Wheeler's exploits with Harvard, MIT, Bowdoin, Yale, and Philips Andover.
The 23-year-old is being charged with dozens of counts of fraud after he was allegedly found to have falsified ...
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The millions of people on the fence about leaving Facebook may be encouraged to leave by the latest shoe to drop in the Facebook privacy fiasco.
The Wall Street Journal reports Facebook, Myspace, and other social n...
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According to Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital, today's students are the smartest ever. In the video below, he discusses how students, or the 'net generation,' are growing up digitally and are having their bra...
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Would you spend $25 total to send you children to the best school in the country? What if you could send 10 students to that school for the same $25? Now imagine those students are in another country. That's exactly w...
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Hello friends. It's Friday and time for a bit of nonsense. We've known there are some bad commencement speakers out there... failing at really motivating graduates to get out and accomplish things. But what if this gu...
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One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first "bookless library."
Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and emptied from two...
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A few miles from the White House in southeast Washington sit some of the worst public schools in America. The students there are mostly poor, mostly black, and their test scores are low. Only one in three finish h...
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Google has had a slew of great announcements for educators over the last week. From allowing all .edu email addresses (staff, faculty, and students oh my!) to have access to Google Voice and the big announcement that ...
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There's a great conversation happening today via the #edchat hashtag on Twitter. We have set up a live site to monitor this conversation here. The topic of the conversation is "What Is The Ideal Classroom Design For T...
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2 years ago
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The procession song for this year's graduates of California development outfit Willow Garage? "Mr. Roboto." Which was fitting, because the class of 2010 contained 11 robots, all of which will soon make their way in...
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We haven't posted too many articles this week because life has been consumed by commencement. Fear not, articles and discussions will resume next week. In the meantime, we have been pondering what you, as a teacher or...
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Want to know what the majority of teachers do to teach a particular lesson? Need some creative inspiration for your next class? Want help writing a research paper? There's a conversation always happening on Twitter vi...
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A few posts ago, EduDemic reported on a research study by the Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology that demonstrated social media having no effect on classroom communications. The results sho...
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After a towing company hauled Justin Kurtz’s car from his apartment complex parking lot, despite his permit to park there, Mr. Kurtz, 21, a college student in Kalamazoo, Mich., went to the Internet for revenge.
Out...