Education

I’m in my twenties and people my age have things like student loans and low paying, entry-level jobs to worry about — not the size of our iPhone screen. So I look at the iPhone 5 from a cost-benefit standpoint. For anyone who already owns an iPhone the free download of iOS 6 is a Continue Reading →

Days before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos were due to launch a partnership, to promote US culture and provide English lessons to young learners around the world via 35,000 Kindle e-readers, the event was quietly cancelled. The proposed partnership with Amazon to develop the Kindle Mobile Learning Initiative was Continue Reading →

On September 6, US Judge Michael Davis ruled that the Minnewaska Area School District in Minnesota violated the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) rights of a 12-year-old student by forcing her to hand over her Facebook password to school officials who in turn used it to search for Continue Reading →

HTML5 is the latest iteration of the standard used by web programmers and developers. When completed in 2014, it will enable developers to write-once-run-anywhere (WORA) for consistent, cross-platform experiences across all operating systems and browsers. For example, a developer could create a single application with identical performance across Facebook, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and all other Continue Reading →

The next time someone says there’s no future in playing video games, you can point them here. Twitch.TV awarded five $10,000 scholarships to students after receiving hundreds of applications for their scholarship program, announced in June. One of the winners is Kelli Dunlap, a 26-year-old doctoral candidate at the American School of Professional Psychology in Continue Reading →

A high school student’s plate isn’t just filled with classes, but also sports, clubs, SATs and a social life of proms and pep rallies. Don’t head into the classroom unarmed — turn to your phone or tablet. There are plenty of apps to help keep your hectic life organized. In high school, your courseload will Continue Reading →

We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple’s retail elite behave when no one’s watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say. How do we know? We read Apple’s secret Genius Training Manual from cover to cover. Continue Reading →

As much as we love baseball, the coolest thing about tonight’s game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays won’t be the action on the field at Comerica Park, but the robot throwing the first pitch. The robo-pitcher, appropriately named Cy-ber Young, could be far more interesting than the Tigers’ Anibal Sanchez or Continue Reading →

The Digital Leadership Academy™ is an international membership organization dedicated to fostering global digital leadership through advances in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It identifies and promotes technological advances across disciplines and across professional and geographic boundaries, and builds connections between institutions and individuals. Its mission is to inspire and promote creative applications of STEM disciplines Continue Reading →

***There’s considerable furor at the people with oversight of this fall’s Presidential Debates over the absence of moderators of color. Various diversity-minded organizations from the NAACP to Univision spearhead the furor-raising – and they have a good point. Given we’re on the road to a multicultural majority in this nation and the fact that we’re Continue Reading →