A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions

Nearly three years later, only about 2,000 students in pilot programs have received computers from the One Laptop project.

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Texas official resigns, cites creationism conflict - USATODAY.com

AUSTIN (AP) — The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who felt she gave the appearance of criticizing the instruction of intelligent design.

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Maine's Middle School Laptop Program: Creating Better Writers - Research Brief

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It's Worth The Wait: Eee PC First Impressions

Let me begin by summarizing the Eee PC in four words: It's worth the wait.

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Schools as Scapegoats

Education is the answer. but, what's the question? Simple: What's the cure for any adverse economic condition? Is your pay stagnant or declining? Quick, get more education. Are workers failing to share in economic growth? Too bad, they should have gained more skills.

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Adobe Flex Builder to be offered free to faculty and students

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe(R) Flex(TM) Builder(TM) 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide.

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Phishing Education Called Inadequate

Security researchers in Pittsburgh last week disagreed over how to educate Web users to prevent phishing attacks, but agreed on one thing: most current methods of user education are inadequate.

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Parents, kids don't see need for math, science skills

A new report commissioned as part of an initiative to improve Math, Science and Technology (MST) education throughout the Kansas City area suggests that on the whole, parents, students, and local communities nationwide are complacent about or even resisting efforts to strengthen  …

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Bob Jones Univ. gets state aid, needy students going to public SC colleges don't

State lawmakers shot down a request for extra financial help for low-income students who will attend South Carolina's public colleges and universities next year.

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Wii + Second Life = New Training Simulator

Nintendo games have made the Wii controller a satisfyingly realistic controller for pretend tennis, golf and baseball. But how about using it to practice doing surgery, applying pesticides or operating a nuclear power plant?

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Education the key to better security

A survey by technology reseller CDW-G suggests that schools need to do a better job of educating students, and not just rely on technology-based security solutions, to keep their buildings and their networks safe. July 13, 2007—School districts rely too heavily on technical so …

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A teacher strikes back

This is one teacher who is fed up.

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Video game tests for autism, dyslexia

Bernard McCrory knows what happens when autism strikes and his company, Learning for Children, are selling video games to give children the help they may need. As youngsters play the games the private U.S. company's testing technology looks for signs of autism or dyslexia.

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Serious games = serious training

Video games have become ubiquitous. A diversion that began as two lines and a dot in Pong has evolved into a multimillion-dollar industry.

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Students and teachers share Web space

Seaford High yearbook adviser Harry Brake no longer relies on the school's public-address system when he wants to make sure his students note an upcoming deadline. He posts a MySpace bulletin. "They all get it right away," he said.

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Hacking Skype: 25 Tips to Improve Your Skype Experience

How versatile is your Skype? Ours can podcast, translate French, take conference calls from 15 people, and tutor calculus. Want to learn how to turn your Skype telephone into a multipurpose office machine? We're going to tell you how.

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Wubi - Windows-Based Installer for Ubuntu Linux

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.

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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses.

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Linden Lab To Open-Source Second Life Servers

Linden Lab plans to open up the source code for Second Life's servers, allowing anyone to run their own version of Second Life, a company spokesman said today, confirming the widespread belief among many in the 3D community that open-sourcing the servers was inevitable.

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eSchool News Editorial: Repeaters, not reporters

The efficacy of math and reading software has been maligned around the world as the result of careless, inappropriate, and misguided news reports about a study paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

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RSS Feeds for Many Educational Research Journals

I've put an opml file with rss feeds for many journals related to education and psychology on the journals page at the Educational Research & Development Wiki I just started.

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Our next teachers: avatar experts

Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars.

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Study: No benefit going high-tech for math and science

Going high-tech doesn't lead to higher math and reading scores, according to a federal study.

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Pupils get lessons in PlayStation

Children at a secondary school in Birmingham are to be taught using hand-held games consoles. Lessons in French, history and geography might suddenly become extra-popular as they will be the test-bed for the scheme.

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Study gives teachers barely passing grade in classroom

The typical child in the USA stands only a one-in-14 chance of having a consistently rich, supportive elementary school experience, say researchers who looked at what happens daily in thousands of classrooms.

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