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Q&A: Khan Academy Creator Talks About K-12 Innovation
By Lesli A. Maxwell Salman Khan, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube...
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Video: See (and Hear) the Space Shuttle Launch Like Never Before
By Dan Nosowitz Posted 03.16.2012 at 3:52 pm Michael Interbartolo, a staffer on the Space Shuttle Program, has posted this video of a shuttle launch, with the cameras attached to the Solid Rocket...
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New Surveillance System Can Compare Your Face Against 36 Million Others in a...
By Bryan Bishop on March 23, 2012 09:03 am www.theverge.com Using facial recognition to process surveillance footage isn't a new concept — Scotland Yard began using the technique in the wake of last...
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When it Comes to Technology, Teachers Need as Much Scaffolding as Students
March 10, 2012 Mark Gleeson http://mgleeson.edublogs.org As teachers, we have come to learn over the years that we should never expect our students to fully understand a new idea without some form of...
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Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica. Windows Did
By Tim Carmody March 14, 2012 www.wired.com I have never owned a print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. After the Britannica company’s announcement that, like the Oxford English Dictionary, it...
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Vijay Kumar: Robots That Fly ... and Cooperate
TED 2012 Filmed Feb 2012 Posted Mar 2012 In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for...
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One of My Favorite Workshops: Future Fun—Playing the Technology Innovation Game
Future Fun—Playing the Technology Innovation Game Getting in touch with the innovator within I love this workshop. But before I tell you about it, I am going to wax philosophic for a few paragraphs...
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Are Video Games Art? Draw Your Own Conclusions
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY Updated 3/12/2012 10:38 PM Sure, the three-dimensional vistas explored in video games such as Super Mario Galaxy and Halo are enchanting, immersive and often dramatic. But,...
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Conference Organizer TED in Search for Best Teachers
12 March 2012 Last updated at 13:19 BBC News—Technology TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), the US non-profit organisation, is pairing up with YouTube to offer a channel dedicated to the...
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Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know
March 20, 2012 10:42 AM By Tasha Bergson-Michelson http://mindshift.kqed.org The Internet has made researching subjects deceptively effortless for students — or so it may seem to them at first. Truth...
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TED Offers Free Video Lessons for High School and College Students
By Lyndsey Layton Published: March 11 Imagine you’re a high school biology teacher searching for the most vivid way to explain electrical activity in the brain. How about inserting metal wires into a...
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How to Create a Portfolio with Evernote (Education Series)
February 28, 2012 Posted by Rob Van Nood Name: Rob Van Nood Location: Portand, OR Profession: Teacher Blog: evernotefolios.wordpress.com Website: www.engagingeducation.me Evernote for Schools Join the...
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Millennials: Generation Disengaged?
TRALEE PEARCE Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:00PM EDT They may be racking up volunteer hours in high school, but today’s Millennials are actually more civically and...
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The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station.
by AJRCLIPS 3 weeks ago http://vimeo.com The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station. from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo. Timelapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the...
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TechCrunch Primer: A Crash Course In Cool Camera Apps
CHRIS VELAZCO Sunday, April 1st, 2012 http://techcrunch.com Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try....
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How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom
March 22, 2012 by Benjamin Jackson http://mashable.com Ben Jackson is a writer and app developer living in Brooklyn, NY. He likes clean typography, dirty language, strong coffee, apple pie and...
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Arts Involvement Narrows Student Achievement Gap
A new NEA study finds disadvantaged students do better academically if they are intensely involved in the arts. By Tom Jacobs FINDINGS, March 29, 2012 www.miller-mccune.com Students from the lower end...
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James Gee: What Do Video Games Have to Do with Project-Based Learning?
BY JOHN LARMER 3/21/12 David Ross and John Larmer are both with the Buck Institute for Education. Mr. Larmer is the Director of Product Development, and Mr. Ross is the Institute's Director of Teacher...
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