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Students turn social media skills into social business strategy

Posted January 30, 2012 - 8:29 pm

San Jose State University and IBM partner in a real-world project to help students translate their Facebook and Twitter prowess into powerful business strategies.
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Chromebooks are the electric car of laptops

Posted January 27, 2012 - 12:41 pm

The Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living
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Scottish university in IBM business analytics education drive

Posted January 15, 2012 - 7:34 am

IBM is working with a group of universities around the world, including in Scotland, to deliver advanced business analytics training as demand increases for the skill.
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Brits hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on IT education

Posted January 11, 2012 - 10:58 am

England's ICT, or Information and Communications Technology, student training to be rebooted.
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Technology that helps children learn

Posted December 12, 2011 - 11:57 am

Device turns ordinary whiteboards into interactive spaces.
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New school curriculum: reading, writing, programming?

Posted November 28, 2011 - 12:11 pm

A BBC story with over 450 comments outlines the push to make software programming a basic for British schoolchildren, as Latin once was. Can public schools teach coding?
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Hottest major on campus? Computer science

Posted November 21, 2011 - 6:31 am

The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more high school seniors are lured by plentiful jobs, six-figure starting salaries and a hipster image fostered by the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
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CCIE vs. MBA

Posted November 14, 2011 - 10:27 am

When CIOs look to add talent to their staffs right now, who should they be recruiting: employees with deep technical skills or deep business skills? That's one argument raging in corporate IT departments over the benefits of hiring staff with technical certifications such as Cisco Certified Internet Expert (CCIE) or business degrees.
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Self publishing textbooks online saves Minnesota school district $175,000

Posted November 7, 2011 - 11:49 am

Faced with a bill for $200,000 for statistics textbooks for their 3,100 high school sophomores, teachers at Blaine High School northwest of Minneapolis decided to write their own digital textbook. Cost? About $25,000. Savings? About $175,000.
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Will the Apple iPad dominate in K-12 education?

Posted November 1, 2011 - 11:09 am

A new survey with a very small but interesting sample says 100 percent of schools are using Apple iPad in some way, but none are even testing Android tablets.
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Chicago-area school district gives free iPads to freshmen

Posted October 29, 2011 - 7:08 am

Freshmen in a Chicago-area school district now have a reason to be excited about coming to school: Free iPads.
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Should tech pros get an MBA?

Posted October 13, 2011 - 1:47 pm

Technical experience combined with business acumen is an appealing package, particularly for senior IT management roles such as CIO and IT director. But earning an MBA is no golden ticket for IT pros, staffing experts caution.
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Stanford offers free AI course, 60,000+ sign up

Posted August 17, 2011 - 10:57 am

Sebastian Thrun (head of the Google robotic car project) and Peter Norvig (author of a leading textbook on the subject and director of research at Google) are heading up the free class given through Stanford.
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Cursive vs. keyboard

Posted July 14, 2011 - 11:33 am

The perennial hot topic of cursive writing has raised its smooth connected head once again. Should schools drop cursive and replace that training with keyboarding?
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Computer skills force out need for cursive writing in schools

Posted July 13, 2011 - 2:42 pm

Keyboard typing and messaging are the way of future no doubt but at the cost of cursive writing? That seems to be the trend as Indiana this week became one of a number of states that no longer require cursive to be taught, but rather require typing skills instead.
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Smartphone adoption by demographic group

Posted July 11, 2011 - 3:23 pm

There's a correlation between education, income and smartphone ownership. Can you guess what it is?
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Computer science enrollments rebound, up 10% last fall

Posted April 12, 2011 - 5:13 am

For the third year, computer science enrollments have increased, ending the precipitous decline in enrollments that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001.
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10 vital stats about iPad enterprise adoption

Posted April 3, 2011 - 5:32 pm

Getting the straight scoop on iPad enterprise adoption isn't as easy as it seems.
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Move over, Dr. Soong: Girls can build apps too

Posted March 28, 2011 - 11:49 am

In Google's New York offices, a group of high school girls are learning to develop Android apps and start their own businesses thanks to the first East Coast Technovation Challenge. The 12-week program pairs high school girls from New York public schools with volunteer mentors to introduce them to high-tech entrepreneurship.
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Top student charged with fixing grades for cash

Posted March 7, 2011 - 1:19 pm

A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee.
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For-profit tech colleges: Can employers trust them?

Posted March 7, 2011 - 10:27 am

IT-oriented colleges such as University of Phoenix, DeVry, Kaplan, and others have come under fire for high costs and deceptive practices
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2009 recovery plan keeps funds flowing for IT training

Posted January 31, 2011 - 2:51 pm

The $19 billion aimed at digitizing health records masked a potentially more important fund -- money to train 50,000 to 100,000 new IT people for healthcare.
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State of the Union to highlight science education

Posted January 25, 2011 - 5:25 pm

But where's IT in the mix?
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K-12 schools lack computer science classes

Posted January 10, 2011 - 9:55 am

An ACM report paints a 'pretty bleak' picture of the state of computer science education in K-12 schools.
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iTunes U makes free education a growing reality

Posted November 1, 2010 - 8:41 pm

Attending the best scholarly lectures used to require access to high profile academic institutions (and a lot of money). Apple's often overlooked iTunes U brings you lectures, presentations, and now texts from the world's top universities for free.
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