education

Chromebooks are the electric car of laptops

Posted January 27, 2012 - 1:41 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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Smartphone adoption by demographic group

Posted July 11, 2011 - 4:23 pm

There's a correlation between education, income and smartphone ownership. Can you guess what it is?
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2009 recovery plan keeps funds flowing for IT training

Posted January 31, 2011 - 3:51 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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iTunes U makes free education a growing reality

Posted November 1, 2010 - 9:41 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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Cell phones taking hold as a teaching tool

Posted May 12, 2010 - 5:53 pm

"You've got a classroom full of students walking in with a computer in their pocket," said one California teacher. "Why would you not use it?"
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British schoolchildren give comical answers on science history

Posted March 24, 2010 - 5:40 pm

Some children believed that the telephone had been invented by Queen Elizabeth and that Luke Skywalker was the first man on the moon.
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Red Hat Extends Open Source Conversation Beyond Technology

Posted January 26, 2010 - 6:20 pm

I know what you're thinking, because I thought the same thing when I read the news on the wire. Opensource.com? Really?
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A Peek into Carnegie-Mellon's Open Source Lab

Posted October 19, 2009 - 9:05 pm

The university has set up a computing lab for its students using all FOSS tools.
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Michigan teen has unusual online college aid plan

Posted March 26, 2009 - 10:00 am

North Dakota high school student Rachel Harris really wants to go to Notre Dame, but can't afford it so she took a page out of Barack Obama's campaign playbook.
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