Category: Education

As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom As part of their education issue, The New York Times Magazine takes a long look at the rise of tablet tech in education, including News Corp’s Amplify project. The programs look to improve education by producing more lessons that adapt to an individual student’s pace and style of learning, also taking advantage of children’s general enthusiasm for gadgetry. It’s a thriving market, given the $17 billion that K-12 schools spend on…

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As reported on The Verge. By Todd Gilchrist Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder deliver a superhero for the modern era Superman is probably the superhero least in need of an existential crisis, but leave it to Christopher Nolan to give him one anyway. As the producer and co-writer of the story for Man of Steel, the auteur who put the dark in The Dark Knight strips away the character’s unassailable integrity and moral certitude and gives us a Kal-El…

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg  Earlier this week, we learned of Sony’s plans for a 13.3-inch e-ink slate with stylus support pitched at students, and now Diginfo has caught up with the prototype device at the Educational IT Solutions Expo in Japan. The A4-sized tablet is said to be the first piece of hardware with an E Ink Mobius display that’s flexible and light due to its new plastic construction. Co-developed by Sony and E Ink, the display only contributes 60g…

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As reported by TechCrunch. KIO STARK The following is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Go Back to School: a handbook for learning anything. To someone who has never tried, it’s not obvious how to learn the things you want to learn outside of school. I’m on a mission to show you how. To do that, I became obsessed with how other people learn best, and how they do it without going to school. My…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Desire2Learn is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software — a learning management system to be precise — and here’s why, in spite of that description, it shouldn’t bore you to sleep. In a space that’s traditionally been controlled by bigs like Blackboard and Moodle, Desire2Learn has quietly managed to carve out its own growing share of the market. Last September, the Waterloo-based companyraised a sizable $80…

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