The pain points of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing in at a burdensome 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.
The first computer I ever used in a classroom was the Apple II. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Hogan, would line us all up against a wall before walking the class over to the computer lab, a rusty bungalow tucked away in a dark corner of the school.
Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair Spectrum, a BBC Micro, or an Acorn computer.
Ah, to be a kid again. Riding your bike until your legs feel like they’re going to fall off. Popsicles! Free food, no job, minimal attention to hygiene. Using your free iPad 2 to—ho, ho, hold it right there. What free iPad 2?
Thanks to a new app from Princeton Review, the iPad finally does something magical: it makes SAT preparation mildly amusing.
A national survey conducted on the role of technology in education – comprised of 30,000 students from over 6,500 private and public schools – has just been released, and (surprise, surprise!) students really wish they could use their phones in class.
Is there an established Web etiquette? The view of our online environment is unquestionably more Wild West than posh party of refined gentlefolk, but in the few decades of the existence of the Internet, we’ve managed to become a culture of snarling, bitter opinions digitally catapulted at message boards from the safety of our desks. [...]
Our ten favorite apps, from that will have you organized and ready to study.
Aiming to hit the magic $100 price point that’s been the goal of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation since the inception of its earliest student-friendly “XO” portable computers, Nicholas Negroponte is planning to take things into the tablet realm over the coming months.
