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How technology in schools has evolved

The early 1920s were the years of the one-room schoolhouse. A few years later, in 1923, classrooms began incorporating radios into...
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BitTorrent

Will the entertainment industry let BitTorrent become legitimate?

When people think of “BitTorrent” most of them think of the peer-to-peer file sharing program that they use to pirate movies,...
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1993

You won’t believe that Komputer Kindergarten is only two decades old

There you are. It’s 1993 and you’re sporting he hair, the youthful look of post-teen angst, the smile of one dedicated...
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Technology in the Classroom

Technology in the classroom

Well, it wasn’t easy, but integrating more technological resources in schools is finally starting to pay off. Eighty-seven percent of parents...
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Digital Manners

Why kids must be taught digital manners

It’s a different era. The digital world is molding children in a way that is completely different from their parents. Some...
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Tardigrade is Indestructable

Tardigrades survive just about anything and scientists still don’t know why

They can survive temperatures near absolute zero or as high as 300 degrees. The crushing pressure at the bottom of the...
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Unstoppable Immovable

The conclusion to an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force will surprise you

Leave it to the folks at Minute Physics to give enjoy thinking harder than you really want to for under four...
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Ever Dry

Hydrophobic coating is the coolest product demonstration you’ll see all day

Hydrophobic and oleophobic coating may sound like something boring that you’d find in a college chemistry textbook, but it also helps...
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Pointless science about walking or running in the rain

Usually, the folks over at Minute Physics put out some pretty thought-provoking information in their series of quick scientific videos. In...
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The collision of pop culture and academia

In recent years, there has been a much stronger focus at an academic level when it comes to pop culture. Society...
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Social Media is big business for colleges

Social media is proving to be a gold mine for professionals in the area of marketing and public relations. Marketing career...
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16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest

Everyone is talking about Pinterest for business or Pinterest for marketing but what about Pinterest for education? Can the fastest-growing social...
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When will iBooks become the norm in schools?

There has been a push to replace books in the educational arena for some time now. This push hasn’t been in...
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Is gamification the key to education?

Anyone with kids (and many adults, for that matter) are aware that achievements garnered through performing certain activities in games are...
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Crunching the numbers: iPads vs texbooks

Some day in the (very) near future, we may no longer need a traditional backpack at school. Rather than carrying around...
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Making the internet more open… in education

Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Education System

My faith in the US education system has been restored

Blogging can be rough (from a #firstworldproblems perspective, at least). You’re constantly being attacked for your opinions, bashed for your mistakes,...
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Childhood Education

From upgrading genetic code to reducing the cost of crime: why early childhood education is so important

Asking why childhood education is important is like asking why oxygen is useful. The benefits are obvious, but the best thing...
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