Apple's Slow But Radical Overhaul Of Education
Nobody doubts that the classroom of the future will look very different than it does today. It will, at the very least, involve fewer dead trees and be much more tapped into that globe-spanning network...
View ArticleObama and Romney Should Quit Worrying About China And Start Worrying About...
In the presidential debates both candidates focused much of their energy on job creation and the future of America. They missed the third part of that equation, namely, the role immigrant entrepreneurs...
View ArticleOnline Universities: Why They Still Don't Measure Up
Assume you're a front-pager, a specialist in need of a certification, or someone else who really needs a degree to make career progress. Have we reached the point where online universities like the...
View ArticleTED Curator Chris Anderson On The Conference's Past, Present & Future
TED, the international conference known for tackling "ideas worth spreading" just topped a billion views for its videos. That's a billion with a "b." That milestone didn't just happen on its own - TED...
View ArticleExecuting On Mary Meeker’s Vision For America: USA Inc.
When “Queen of the Net” Mary Meeker landed at Kleiner Perkins she added a new initiative: Help people understand how certain trends were negatively impacting America. Her first report, USA Inc....
View ArticleNew Apps Show The Music Education Revolution Is Just Getting Started
Music will never be the same. But you knew that. You see it everyday when you share a playlist from Spotify or Songza, comment on a SoundCloud waveform or discover an artist who, as it turns out, got...
View ArticleATOMS Express Toys A Fun Way To Foster Kid Hackers
A start-up toy maker has launched a fun line of connected building-block modules with sensors, motors and digital output that kids can use to create electronic devices from scratch. The company is...
View ArticleUpdated: Texas Schools Win Right To Track Students With Creepy, Invasive RFID...
Update: On Thursday, January 17, the Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals denied the Rutherford Institute's appeal to prohibit the removal of 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez from John Jay Science &...
View ArticleCan Venture Capital Fix Our Dysfunctional Educational System?
Venture capitalists are betting that technology will play a major role in fixing a broken U.S. educational system. Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech Capital Partners put their chips down...
View ArticleWhat Would You Look Like As An Early Hominid?
You can debate how much we have evolved emotionally since our early primate days in Africa, but there’s no arguing about our looks. At that point in human development. we were to beauty what the butt...
View ArticleWill Microsoft Close Office 365's 'Household' Discount Loophole?
Office 365, already priced as a cheaper, subscription alternative to Microsoft's retail Office packages, may offer families and friends additional discounts, provided that Microsoft doesn't close a key...
View ArticleWhat's Missing From The New Digital Classroom?
As part of my research at Forrester, I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know companies developing technology solutions for K-12 and higher education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Coursera...
View ArticleTelepresence In Education: Cisco & Wharton Reinvent The Business-School...
Cisco has installed more than 1,900 telepresence systems around the world, offering business-oriented, multi-camera video-conferencing technology designed to gives the impression that all the...
View ArticleStephen Wolfram Says He Has An Algorithm For Everything — Literally
Stephen Wolfram believes that we may have already discovered the fundamental Unified Theory of Physics, and that he may able to write it down via a language that his company, Wolfram Alpha, has...
View ArticleThe Tech Industry's Massive Marketing Problem
The US has a skilled developer shortage, and it's one of its own making. While Silicon Valley wrings its hands over H1B visa caps on skilled foreign workers, the bigger issue remains the U.S.'...
View ArticleHopscotch App Aims To Get Both Girls And Boys Interested In Programming
Learning to program can sound like a daunting task even for well-educated adults, much less a kid. But the makers of Hopscotch think it’s easy enough for an eight-year-old, given the right interface....
View ArticleHow To Raise The Next Zuckerberg: 6 Coding Apps For Kids
If you want to give your kid every opportunity to succeed, it’s hard to argue with teaching them to code. Some of the wealthiest and most influential people of our time began programming young, and...
View ArticleThere's A Boom In Teaching People How To Code
Until last February, Janine Holsinger had never typed a single line of code. But the Columbus, Ohio, entrepreneur wasn’t going to let that get in the way of her dreams. She signed up for a service...
View ArticleWhy Aren't College Students Using LinkedIn To Find Jobs?
The jobless numbers in the U.S. remain an ongoing concern throughout the country. For college students and recent graduates, often dubbed "millennials," the numbers are even worse. More than half of...
View ArticleKodable Teaches Kids To Code Before They Learn To Read
Preschool and kindergarten are recommended times for kids to learn a new language, while they’re still in the process of learning their first one. So Grechen Huebner and her cofounder, Jon Mattingly,...
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