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Science Textbooks to Contain Illustrations by XKCD’s Randall Munroe
The popular webcomic XKCD has shown for years how well science, technology and humour can be mashed together through the medium of stick figures. Fans of the webcomic created by former NASA roboticist, Randall Munroe will…
Amazon is Creating a Platform to Share Educational Materials
When you are a teacher, or anyone involved in training, you often spend more time creating resources and finding ways to reinforce a message rather than just hammering it home time and time again. In order…
Touch Screen Devices are ‘Eroding’ Digital Skills for Children
Hands up if you own a touch screen phone? How about a touch screen laptop/tablet? How many of your devices use a touch screen these days? It would seem that this may not be amazing news…
AI Program Beats Average Entrance Exam Scores in Japan College Exam
Artificial Intelligence has been progressing at an impressive rate due to technological advancements in cybernetics. The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies suggests AI is a form of biological replication and further understanding of the human brain…
Afghanistan To Open Coding School For Girls
Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for a lot of things. He has advertised science and technology to thousands and even found Krypton (okay he found a planet roughly where Krypton would be and got it named…
BBC Micro Bit Computer’s Finalized Design Revealed
The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit computer and it brings along a few changes over the earlier shown prototypes. The Micro Bit is a pocket-sized computer and that even goes for…
Not Everyone Will Get Windows 10 on the 29th of July
If you were eagerly waiting to get your hands on Windows 10 on the 29th of July, you might be a bit disappointed. Microsoft just ruled out some updates on the upcoming Windows distribution timings, so…
Teaching Resource Site For Minecraft?
Minecraft is a game where very little is ever the same. This means you can build a castle in one map with ease, but in the next building the Starship Enterprise is a lot easier. While…
Apple WWDC 2015 Could Bring 12-inch iPads and Dual-App View Mode
We are nearing that time of the year when Apple will unveil its stuff at the annual World Wide Developer Conference. Out of all rumours, the most interesting ones consist of 12-inch iPads, dual-app view mode…
Machines are in Control and are Making Kids Stupid Says Wozniak
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak has moved on from scaremongering about the evils of artificial intelligence, claiming now that machines are too important in our lives and that computers are making our kids stupid. During a speech…
Use of Search Engines In Exams, is it Inevitable?
The executive of one of the UK’s major exam boards is facing criticism after suggesting that the use of Google in exams should be allowed. Mark Dawe, an executive of the Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations…
Microsoft Is Planning to Release $149 Laptops Running Windows 10
Microsoft is said to be working on delivering record low-priced laptops running Windows 10 which are due to launch this summer. The company is aiming for a $149 price tag for the cheap laptops, which are…
BBC “Make it Digital” Scheme to Give 1 Million Micro-Computers to Kids
Back in the 1980s, the BBC, as part of a new computer literacy initiative, launched its own computer, the BBC Micro (a modified Acorn), in an effort to educate children about emerging information technology. Now,…
Meet the MeArm – A Kickstarter that Promises Robotics for Everybody
Meet MeArm – the robotic arm designed to teach anyone and everyone about robotics. Benjamin Gray from Nottingham, UK, has so far raised £13,966 for his small robot arm project that’s meant to make the science of robots…
GCHQ Launches Kids Cryptography App
GCHQ, the Government Communications Headquarters of the UK, otherwise known as Britain’s NSA, has launched a an app targeted at kids with the intention of teaching them about cryptography. The organisation that spends most of its…
President Obama Writes His First Ever Line of Code
Barack Obama just finished his first ever line of code. The “Coder-in-Chief” wrote a line of Javascript with 20 middle school students as part of the Hour Of Code programme by Code.org. Code.org and The Hour of Code…
Student Hacks Microscopes – Saves £100,000
A student at Brunel University in London has saved £100,000 by hacking USB microscopes. The PhD student needed a highly sophisticated microscope for his research into cell movement. However, the best microscopes available for this type of…
Harvard Academics Build Robot That Teaches Kids How to Write Code
Harvard researchers have built a $10 robot that has been designed to teach children how to write code. The small AERobot can be connected to a computer via USB and programmed in a specially modified language…
Harvard University Secretly Tracked Attendance Using Cameras
The prestigious Harvard University has revealed it conducted an experiment using cameras to track attendance. The experiment which used security cameras and custom software to analyse the number of empty seats in a lecture hall, was…
Chromebooks to Hit Sales of 5.2 Million by End of 2014
Chromebooks are getting big, their popularity is increasing, especially within the educational areas, their cost is attracting schools everywhere to replace the expensive IT rooms we all used to use. People who buy a Chromebook aren’t…
Kickstarter Campaign ‘Reading Rainbow’ Most Successful Campaign To Date
Back in the 80’s, Reading Rainbow was one of the best known educational programs going, teaching kids of all ages how to read and when it came off air in 2006, many thought this would be…
Denmark Created 1:1 Scale In Minecraft
The team at Geodata agency have recreated the whole of Denmark in 1:1 scale in the world of Minecraft. Simon Kokkendoft and Thorbjørn Nielsen used data taken from their Geodata Agency to make a block-for-block remake of…
Neswaiu Mummy Goes Digital At Stockholm Museum
Stockholms Medelhavsmuseet museum has taken its display and research of the Egyptian mummys to the next level, and their latest exhibit sees the mummy of Neswaiu, son of Tekeretdjehuty is the latest to get some extra…
Apple And Other Companies To Donate Free Hardware And Services To Schools
With the US Government launching its ConnectED initiative, which will help get US classrooms into the internet era, several major companies have joined The White House to give them a helping hand. Apple alone plans to…
Kerbal Space Program Mod “KerbalEdu” Takes The Game Into The World Of Education
Teachers and students can now work together to learn rocket science and the joys of space travel with the official launch of KerbalEdu, an educational modification of the popular, award-winning space agency game Kerbal Space Program…
27-inch All-in-One Touch Workstation Announced By HP
HP today unveiled the second generation of the world’s first and only all-in-one workstation with a 27-inch diagonal display, the HP Z1, now available with Windows 8 Touch and Intel Thunderbolt 2 capabilities making it HP’s…
Dell Chromebook 11 To Arrive In January 2014 For Less Than $300
Dell announced its education-focused notebook called Chromebook 11 at Dell World 2013, having it be the first Dell device with Chrome OS. The new Dell Chromebook 11 is an affordable and highly portable device, having an…
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