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Back to School: Buy a Mac from Apple and Get a $100 Gift Card, or Buy an iPad and Get a $50 Gift Card
In the market for a new Mac or iPad? You could get money to put toward apps, music and iBooks.
Back to School: Get Free Digital Textbooks from Boundless
Boundless turns open-source education content into free textbooks that serve as alternatives to textbooks from big-name publishers.
Versal Aims to Make Teaching as Easy as Blogging
A new site lets anyone meld words, pictures, videos and web gadgets into courses.
Kiddovation: 6 Cool Inventions from High-Schoolers at MIT’s EurekaFest
Checking in on the next generation of innovators — high-schoolers from around the country showcase their ideas at MIT’s EurekaFest invention fair.
Hey, Word Geeks! Now There’s a Website for You
Vocabulary.com could actually make speaking well cool again.
Is It the End for Handwriting? Are Tablets Doing Penmanship In?
Is handwriting on the way out? Is scribbling with a pencil or ink pen on actual paper destined to become a cultural relic?
Wharton and Cisco Show Off the Telepresence Classroom of Tomorrow
The business school and networking company turn facilities in Philadelphia and San Francisco into one virtual classroom.
Tech Meets Handwriting: Lernstift Pen Buzzes to Correct Your Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship
Remember handwriting? The old-timey art of transferring ink or charcoal to paper has been largely sidelined by technology, but a technology-infused pen is looking to bring handwriting into the current century.
Nonprofit ScriptEd NYC Teaches Coding to Underprivileged Students
If you read the article in Monday’s New York Times about Microsoft engineers who teach computer science in high schools, then you may be interested in ScriptEd NYC. Led by two New York City professionals and Teach for America …
MinecraftEdu Teaches Students Through Virtual World-Building
A New York City school teacher has crafted a version of Minecraft for schools
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 …