Education
How Does Google Affect Your Brain?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed TechCrunch had a great title for a recent article: “Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things.” We get annoyed when co-workers or bosses ask us silly questions that they themselves could have Googled. However, the bigger [...]
Public Schools Required to Teach Anti-Cyberbullying Practices
Many public schools in the United States will soon be required to educate students about the dangers of cyberbullying and how to conduct themselves online. All schools which are funded with the Schools and Libraries Program – otherwise known as E-Rate – fund will be bound by these regulations. Grantees are already required to run [...]
How To Help Public Education
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Trish Millines-Dziko founded Technology Access Foundation in 1996 after spending 15 years as a developer, designer and manager in the high tech industry. Her successful career brought her to Microsoft in the mid-1980s, just as the pioneering software company was set [...]
Have a Glass of Wine to Help Young Readers
Twitter’s Fledgling Initiative is about to give us all a good reason to have a glass of wine. Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have joined with Crushpad to create limited edition bottles of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to benefit Room to Read, an international effort to ensure all children have access to schools [...]
Social Media in Education
This is a guest blog post written by my assistant and Community Manager, Kat Armstrong. After spending the past few days writing about the new iPhone, my brain was absolutely shot. Approximately 90% of what I write every day deals with technology news, gadgets and companies. About an hour ago, I hit a brick wall. [...]
SUPERAntiSpyware Educational License Special
In the past, we’ve been fortunate to offer discounts on SUPERAntiSpyware to our readers, and the response has always been great. SAS is an excellent product, one which Kat highly recommends. Today I learned that they are offering a very special license for educational institutions, and I wanted to make sure that it is passed [...]
Do Computer Majors Mean Anything Anymore?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The job market is always changing. Computer program majors often find themselves having a tough time after graduation. It may sound insane due to the number of computer-related fields that are are there. Much of it depends on where you live, [...]
Starfall for Beginning Readers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During Gnomedex, we held an open mic period where attendees could come onto the stage and pass along resources that the rest of us might not know about. Now, I know that this particular video will not interest many of our [...]
Should School be Taught in the Cloud?
On March 5th, the U.S. Department of Education released its National Educational Technology Plan, which they named Transforming Education: Learning Powered by Technology. Some of the recommendations made in the report include things like having a computing device for every teacher – and student – so that they can access the Internet from both school [...]
What Place Does Social Media Have in our Schools?
I came across a very interesting post a little while ago, over on Geeks. The author, Will, is asking our opinions as to what place social media should play in our educational systems. Will mentioned that his high school principal has asked students for ideas as to how social media could be incorporated into education [...]
Education is the Key
I was happy to read on Geeks today that community member Steve has obtained his GED. I’ve often talked in the past about how important an education is. These days, you cannot get any type of job if you’re over 18 years old and don’t possess a high school diploma or GED. There are college [...]
Stretch Yourself
It’s time to stand up and stretch. Get out of those chairs. Come on – you can do it. Stand up, and reach your arms above your head as high as they will go. Now bend over, and attempt to touch the ground (don’t worry, I can’t quite do that, either). Hold your arms out [...]
Multipoint Gaming
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Team MultiPoint Web, three brothers from Oregon (Jimmy, Mark and Luke Dickinson), recently won the US Imagine Cup Finals and are now preparing to go to Cairo to compete in the WW Finals for Software Design. The team also entered the [...]
Such is the Life of a Geek
If you watch my live stream, you may think that my life is pretty boring most days. I mean – I just sit at a computer day in and day out. However, you don’t realize how entertaining my days actually are! I spend hours a day reading through different websites, blogs and forums. I stretch [...]
Can Homeschooling Provide More Opportunities?
I recently raised the question on my blog: “Is Internet better than traditional schooling?”. So many of you have sent in your thoughts on this matter, than I’ve done a follow up post called Is Traditional School a Must?, as well as Jonathan’s Reasons in Favor of Homeschooling. I’ve also received the following email from [...]
