Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category

CourseSmart Launches First Mobile Web App For eTextbooks

Technology and education coming together to make college students smarter, faster, better! I’m so excited I can barely keep my pants on![ READ MORE ]

2011 ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Information Technology

Feel free to geek out on this awesome infographic from EDUCAUSE. It's the snappy visual to explain the ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2011 Report. You can read all about the study and see the ginormous version of the graphic[ READ MORE ]

Michelle Obama Supports Girls in STEM Majors and Careers

The unfortunate phenomenon of elementary-aged girls becoming interested in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) subjects, going off to college intending to major in and then pursue a career in one of those fields, and ultimately veering off somewhat sharply into less science-and-math rich majors and careers is common. [ READ MORE ]

Is Technology Just A Tool?

The technology we create for ourselves, ostensibly to make our lives easier/better/faster, seems always to impact more than just the job it was created for. I’m talking about wheels and looms, satellites and cotton gins, not Silly Putty and Flowbees. [ READ MORE ]

OCW Consortium Partners with Leading Community College Consortium, CCCOER, to Expand Access to Open Education

Remember the OpenCourseware Consortium folks? They’re awesome in their wielding of powers for good. They make online courseware available to educators and students everywhere. The newest project is partnering with community colleges[ READ MORE ]

Fall 2011 Facebook App for Financial Aid

What do you get when you smash Bill Clinton, a UNLV grad, MTV, Bill and Melinda Gates, College Board, and Facebook? No, not that. (It was my first guess, too.)[ READ MORE ]

CourseSmart Research Reveals College Students Lerve Their Digital Devices

The findings further reveal that students are completely dependent on technologies—eReaders, Smartphones, laptops and more—to get through their daily college routine. Nearly all of the students surveyed (98%) own a digital device. And 38% of students surveyed said that they could not go more than 10 minutes without checking in with their tech device—about the same amount of time it takes to walk to class[ READ MORE ]

Wikipedia Wants Your Learned Grey Matter

Whether it’s a site-able source (it’s absolutely not, according to many professorial types) or not, everyone uses Wikipedia as a quick way to satisfy some burning question or as a starting point on some quest for reams of information on almost any subject one can think of. It’s like a Twinkie or Oscar Meyer baloney: I don’t trust it, I would never serve it at a dinner party, but I’m still gonna eat it. [ READ MORE ]

Broadband Availability for U.S. Schools

School kids need broadband, too! There’s a nearly infinite universe of information available on the Internet, a bazillion football stadiums’ worth of hard copy knowledge that would never fit into a school library or classroom[ READ MORE ]

Bots High

If you’re feeling like you can’t come up with a single non-cool entity, it’s because none exist[ READ MORE ]