Education

Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones?

Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies to help kids conquer math. Are smartphone-learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick?READ»

Perk Up, USA: You've Still Got Your Innovation Mojo

According to a new survey on global innovation conducted by Newsweek and Intel, the United States is suffering from a serious self-esteem problem. The online questionnaire, conducted between Sept. 28 and Oct. 13 of this year, polled ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: Does Adding Teachers Improve Education?

This graph proves the complexity of educational reform.READ»

Can Smart.fm's iPhone App Really Teach You Brain Anatomy?

Dozens of to-do apps and voice recorders have allowed the iPhone to serve as a safety net for all the things that slip through our brains, forgotten. But can an iPhone app really help you remember? The creators of a new iPhone ...READ»

Where's My iPod Made? SourceMap Has the Answer

MIT's Media Lab has designed a way to help you understand the economic and ecological implications behind different products you buy--it's an interactive map that displays where each component came from.READ»

16 Inventions That Boost Habitats, Humanity, Health and Happiness

While working to develop products like the Hippo Roller, a water transportation device, Emily Pilloton, founder of the non-profit Project H Design, began collecting examples of similar products that solved social problems. Her recently released book, Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People features those findings. Featured here are sixteen examples from the book.READ»

The Argument for Kindles in Schools

Yesterday I wrote about the Kindle's tepid reception on the Princeton campus, and suggested that the device might not be ready for educational use. But pilot programs at other schools, involving both Kindles and iPhones, have ...READ»

Should Colleges Subsidize Print News, Or Switch to Kindle?

This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»

The Anti-Sweatshop: Nike Expands Its Education Philosophy to Sri Lanka

Filling its own shoes as one of the world's most innovative manufacturers once again, Nike has partnered with MAS Holdings to open the new Apparel Innovation and Training Centre in Sri Lanka. The new center, operated and staffed by ...READ»

ESPN asks Wharton School: Internet or TV?

ESPN announced today that it is partnering with a Wharton School initiative to find solutions to the growing list of challenges presented by digital media. (Below, the Wharton campus.) The Wharton group, which is called the ...READ»

Great Info For Buying a Handbag

My wife has been thinking that she wanted to get a new handbag. In this case I went online to do a little research for her. I found a great site on designer handbags that had all kinds of information on the history of each brand. ...READ»

Revolution in the Living Room: Conversation With a Furniture Designer

An Italian furniture designer fell in love with American design at an early age, but was disappointed by its current state. So he relocated to the U.S. to help shake things up.READ»

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Anything but a Luddite: Conversation With a Fibers Designer

From clothes to curtains to carpet to couches to chairs to car seats, fibers are ubiquitous part of design. What you may not know is that fibers are also responsible for the first programmable computer.READ»

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5 Startups to Watch

At the first-ever Venture Capital in Education Summit, at the end of May, Peter Campbell of private equity firm Generation Partners told the crowd, "A theme you hear from the President is that in the next 12 years, we have to retake ...READ»

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The Architect of Experience: Conversation With a Service Designer

Where interactive design meets industrial design, meets advertising, meets interior design, meets graphic design, meets sequential art. Savannah College of Art and Design president Paula Wallace interviews professor Peter Fossick.READ»

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Ygs - Lys Hazırlık

ÖSYM Başkanı Prof. Dr. Ünal Yarımağan önceki gün YÖK toplantısıyla şekillenen üniversiteye girişle ilgili yeni sistem hakkında bilgi verdi. Yarımağan, daha önce alınan iki aşamalı sınav sistemi kararı ...READ»

Schools are breeding laziness

It may shock you how little my students study. Last Spring, out of 90 students, not one admitted to spending more than 10 hours a week on school work -- and, a sizable chunk worked less than 5. In any given week, less than 2% did ...READ»

A Tour of America's First Zero-Impact, Supergreen "Living Building"

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation's first certified "living ...READ»

Nintendo Goes to School: DS Classroom Turns Handheld Console Into Teaching Tool

Nintendo, never content to create gaming products that are simply for gaming, is taking its portable DS system to school. Partnering with program developer Sharp System Products, the company that turned the Wii into a home gym is ...READ»

Poetic Dutch School Has Writing on the Wall, And the Floor, Tables...

Dutch architects i29 and Snelder have designed a school that inverts everything about traditional education buildings. Gone are wall posters and noticeboards, institutional green paint schemes and a jumble of colors. Instead, it's ...READ»

Pimping His Ride--and the Push to Cure a Fatal Disease

How a roadtrip for 12 buddies turned into a movie and a nationwide campaign to raise money for the battle against Duchenne muscular dystrophy.READ»

Why Robert Picard is Wrong about Journalists Deserving Lower Pay

Details matter: Robert Picard’s recent editorial shows a reckless disregard for context, when he accuses journalists of being responsible for their profession’s own demise. Picard, essentially, argues that if reports are ...READ»

Educational Entrepreneur, Most Creative Person Shai Reshef Gets Round of Applause at the UN

A briefing room at the United Nations yesterday morning made a very official setting for an announcement about the international, high-tech, and almost free future of higher education. Shai Reshef, featured in our Most Creative ...READ»

Why I Let My Students Use Facebook During Class

Thanks to laptops, I have to compete with the most sophisticated portable entertainment device ever conceived by man…welcome to the modern classroom. Now, I could dig deep into my primal nature and do what authority ...READ»

11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [Video]

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning ...READ»