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HP this week announced the recipients of its 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program. Forty-two colleges and universities and 130 K-12 schools will be receiving more than $7 million in cash, gear, and professional development.Read the Full Article
Residents of the virtual world Second Life rise up to protest technical troubles brought on by a burgeoning population.Read the Full Article
Sprint Nextel says expired licenses threaten success of national broadband networkRead the Full Article
Small but fine – mobile learning today comes in many different forms and contexts. In Africa, the predominant technique, however, remains the mobile phone. To take advantage of the local infrastructural conditions is sometimes challenging; nonetheless, several pilot projects already show effectiveness in practise. John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, depicts the crucial factors of mLearning […]
Given their comfort with and pervasive use of technology, today’s students are undeniably different from those twenty, ten, or even five years ago. The prevalence of technological tools has clearly affected how the youth of today read, write, and communicate, which has, in turn, led to a technology-based generation divide. Read the Full Article
Handwritten notes, meeting for coffee, eye contact, a handshake, a smile—are these social practices of yesteryear, soon to be replaced by the “wall posts” and “pokes” of today’s social networking technologies? Although advances in social networking technologies allow for new and perhaps more efficient means of learning and communicating,Read the Full Article
The inventor of the World Wide Web explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data.Read the Full Article
The September 2006 report A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, by the commission appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, identifies many areas of improvement for U.S. higher education and specifies numerous recommendations (totaling more than fifty, according to some counts) for consideration by states, the federal government, institutions, […]
A new metal film could help control terahertz radiation and lead to wireless devices that are thousands of times faster than today’s Wi-Fi.Read the Full Article
chalkboardâ„¢ LCMS Version 4.1 Allows For the Swift Creation of Interactive Activities Read the Full Article