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Students Grab 350,000 Digital Textbooks from Apple iBooks in First Three Days
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With iBooks 2, Apple recently launched its full-on assault on the print textbooks we all lugged around in school. So far, the war is off to a good start for Apple. According to AllThingsD, students have already downloaded 350,000 textbooks from iBooks in just three days. That is a huge… |
January 24th, 2012
California Students Participate in LEGO Robot Build Off
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When I was a kid, we didn’t have much in the way of competitions or anything to encourage the use of mechanical skills and engineering. I think one of the coolest contests a kid could do is something like this one – when kids from 9 to 14 years old… |
November 22nd, 2011
Yale School of Medicine Hands Out 520 iPads to Students
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I can tell you from experience that no matter what sort of degree in the medical field you are pursuing you will have a ton of textbooks. One of the anatomy books I had in college weighed a good ten pounds. Add to that the cost of those books and… |
September 1st, 2011
Education iMac Drops Below $1,000: Will You Get One?
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m somewhat ambivalent about the all-in-one PCs, mostly because they use laptop parts to get to that svelte size, but Apple has announced the specs of their education iMac, which sits at $999. That’s $200 less than the cheapest consumer model. You won’t get Thunderbolt or… |
August 9th, 2011
RURO: The Cutest Robot You’ve Ever Seen!
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This robot is probably too cute to be used as an effective security ‘bot, but it does have some interesting features for an educational robot. RURO the robot was designed to teach kids about recycling.… |
February 15th, 2011
South Korea Hires Robot Teachers
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South Korea isn’t a great destination for English teachers. There’s a shortage of English teachers in South Korea because the Koreans apparently work them like dogs (extremely long hours, from early in the morning to late at night including Saturdays on a fixed salary). The ones who stay want to… |
December 29th, 2010
Humane Reader: the $20 Computer
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I’ve certainly seen our share of low-cost computers, but I can honestly say that this is the least expensive computer system I’ve seen yet. The Humane Reader is designed to provide computer technology to homes or schools without internet access or the budget for traditional PCs or Macs. The 8-bit… |
July 19th, 2010
Nintendo Wants Ds in Schools in Japan, Forgets Every Japanese Kid Already has One
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… possible even two. Legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto told Forbes that he’s “devoting” himself to finding out more ways to get the Nintendo DS as well as the Wii into schools. Miyamoto also said that Nintendo will start “to roll out the Nintendo DS system in junior high … |
March 22nd, 2010
Sony Wx1 Digi-Cam Snaps Panoramic Photos for a Good Cause
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So the guys over at Sony were kind enough to provide us with one of their nifty DSC-WX1 digital cameras so we could go out and shoot some cool panoramic pics – with the goal of putting some of these high-tech wonders in the hands of school kids. Sony asked… |
December 10th, 2009
Robot Learns to Make Facial Expressions, is Rewarded With a Measly “Signal”
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At least dogs get food when they get things right. This poor robot Einstein, made by computer scientists from the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, was given time to play with its 31 artificial facial muscles while “staring” at its reflection in the mirror. The… |
July 10th, 2009
