Students can save up to 80% on college textbooks by signing up to rent them on the Kindle. Here's what the move says about Amazon's plans for e-readers and tablets going forward. READ»
NASA is considering student-designed experiments for its SPHERES robots, the best of which will get tested aboard the International Space Station. How's that for good PR?READ»
Student-life professionals regularly face the challenge of doing more with less. Over the past two decades, state-provided revenues for public institutions have steadily declined, while operating costs have increased. More often than ...READ»
You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it. — Albert Einstein
Assessment
The test scores are out again. And once again, American kids aren't doing so well.
You can choose any of the international ...READ»
According to MIT, some 2.6 billion people in the world don't have access to adequate sanitation--and 10 million of them live in Kenya's impoverished slums. So-called pit latrines -- four walls around a hole in the ground -- actually ...READ»
Proof, if you needed it, that Barnes & Noble is one of the more dynamic retailers around: as well as hardware, it's just gone into software, with its free NOOKstudy application, a Mac- and PC-compatible program that lets students ...READ»
In the world of strange partnerships--Catherine the Great and her horse, HP and, um, Palm--then HP and Interscope records might seem like bedfellows from indeed, a galaxy far, far away. Unless, however, you're a student at Culver City ...READ»
In-car apps have been a bit of a buzzword for some time, but Ford is in pedal-to-the-metal mode since launching its Sync technology last month. The system allows for all sorts of four-wheel fun and japes, including voice control. The ...READ»
There was a time when student protests in the U.S. meant something, when the iconic sit-ins, occupations and banner-waving could've impacted the world. Now Santa Clara U students have a new cause: AT&T's coverage. What? ...READ»
Three Google execs have been convicted on charges of privacy violation in an Italian court, based on a horrid schoolkid bullying clip on YouTube. Though the video is shocking, it's the Italian legal system that's truly ...READ»
According to recent calculations, Apple sewed up around 98% of all mobile app downloads in 2009. The App Store is evidently a soaring success, serving up apps for everything. Literally everything. All this demand seems to have ...READ»
MyRichUncle was an intriguing startup student loan company with an innovative, white-knight approach when I wrote about them in the 2006 Fast Company 50.
When I talked to them, the two 20-something founders seemed cocky, but sincere. ...READ»
Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»
Today in my journalism ethics class, I talked with the students about net neutrality. Most of them hadn't heard of it, so I showed them a couple of YouTube videos, including one produced by SavetheInternet.com. In the discussion ...READ»
Not too long ago, educators are expected to teach students about what they know. Students, on the other hand, are expected to listen, absorb the information and transform them into knowledge.
This style of teaching or rather, ...READ»
