MinecraftEdu Teaches Students Through Virtual World-Building
A New York City school teacher has crafted a version of Minecraft for schools
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Site Lets You Simulate a Facebook Hack, Goes Viral at PennApps
At the beginning of every school year, most college students receive the same warning email or lecture from campus safety: don’t leave your laptop unattended because someone could steal it. But they don’t warn you that a friend …
Lights, Camera, Learn: SchoolTube Strives to Be YouTube for K-12 Education
Can sharing facts you learn in class be as fun as sharing the latest “Call Me Maybe” parody on YouTube?
That’s what SchoolTube says. The free website claims to be “the nation’s largest teacher-moderated K-12 video-sharing …
YouTube Videos Mentioning Obama and Romney Reach 2 Billion Views
The nearly 600,000 videos mentioning Obama and Romney that have been uploaded since April 2011 have received around 2 billion views, reports YouTube Trends’s Ramya Raghavan. The mashup of Barack Obama singing Carly Rae Jepsen’s …
Top 10 Celebrity Tech Endorsements
Going viral in the past week are two celebrity tech ads — James Franco promoting the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Penélope Cruz promoting the Nintendo 3DS. That’s a good enough excuse to re-watch celebrity-endorsed tech …
Wi-Fi Donkey Brings New Tech to an Old World
Have you been called an ass for spending too much time on the Internet during a summer vacation?
You can find more of your kind at an Israeli theme park where, for the past four days, a donkey carrying a Wi-Fi router has been …
OnLive Launches New Company to Avoid Bankruptcy
Cloud gaming service OnLive is still live, but under new management, per a statement released Sunday night by company spokesperson Jane Anderson. The press release addressed last Friday’s rumors that the company went bankrupt and …
Our Nominations for the Internet Cat Video Film Festival
We thought that the Internet Cat Video Film Festival, on Aug. 30 in Minneapolis, would be the purr-fect excuse to round up our favorite cat videos on the web. Here are our 10 nominations.
Texting 1, 2, 3: Schools Test ‘Bring Your Own Technology’ Programs
As protesters took to the streets yesterday to protest the inequality of wealth, two computer scientists in Portland, Oregon are protesting the inequality of resources in schools.
Polling and Social Media Collide with ‘Social Polling’
What do you think is the best way to track public opinion?
A) Conduct a poll based on a random sample.
B) Create an online poll and post it on Facebook, Twitter, or a blog.
C) Ask a Magic Eight Ball.
Most people would …