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Touted as the best-selling Mac for years in a row, the White polycarbonate MacBook has officially reached its end-of-life. Apple made it clear in a message sent out to resellers this week.
Apple had already discontinued the product last year, but continued to ship it to educational facilities. Starting now, that dea... |
9 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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The new iTunes U application for iPad and iPhone offers good examples of courses that include support for the enhanced features in iBooks 2, Apple informs via Inside iTunes.
“The new iTunes U app allows educators at universities, colleges, and K-12 schools to design and deliver full courses directly to your iP... |
8 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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The Aakash tablet which gained worldwide fame for its price of $35 / 27 Euro may end up not bearing any price tag at all.
According to a report by IndiaToday, the Indian government wants to distribute the product for free to students of learning institutions.
It is unclear if this means all institutions or just s... |
8 February 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Skolelinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian, providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network, is now at version 6.0.4 Beta 3. Petter Reinholdtsen, one of the developers of Debian Edu aka Skolelinux, has recommended that users reinstall the operating system in order to get all t... |
5 February 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and the Virginia Department of Education have teamed up to conduct the first-ever 18-month pilot of HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 for iPad.
Using the world's only full-curriculum Algebra app for Apple tablet computers, the pilot encompasses the 2012 Spring semester and the 2012–2013 ... |
27 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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M5859 Studios has launched Inside the World of Dinosaurs, a new education app for iPad users, narrated by Stephen Fry. The publishers believe it’s one of the most exciting and content-rich apps in the world of interactive publishing.
A fully-interactive digital dinosaur encyclopedia, Inside the World of ... |
27 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Vito Technology, a well-known developer of education apps for iPhone and iPad, is showcasing its updated iOS software at Macworld | iWorld this year, touting their success in classrooms worldwide.
Star Walk (stargazing guide), Solar Walk (3D Solar System model) and Geo Walk (new kind of encyclopedia) have been succe... |
27 January 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Announced in December 2011, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X130e educational notebook has now become available for pre-order from the company’s website with shipments being expected to begin on February 10.
Since the X130e is built especially for education, Lenovo concentrated on making its new ThinkPad tougher than ... |
27 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Apple has posted a dedicated Support page for iTunes U, the newly updated service for education.
A two-pane view allows users to choose a topic on the left and see the answers to their questions about iTunes U on the right. Other resources are also provided.
For example, Apple explains how to use the new iTunes U s... |
24 January 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Cases of parents who choose to raise their child as “gender neutral” are not few. Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper are among the first couples in the UK to do so, having just recently unveiled that Sasha is actually a boy. The revelation was made just a few days ago, as Sasha went to school and they could ... |
23 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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In accordance with Apple’s education event held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City yesterday, Pearson has confirmed the release of a new suite of multimedia textbooks and reference titles for Apple’s iPad.
“Pearson is publishing its first suite of new books to coincide with the launch of App... |
20 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Apple has posted the January 19 recording of its Education Event in NYC on Apple.com where anyone with a Mac, PC, or iDevice can watch the presentation as a continuous stream.To see Phil Schiller & friends unveil iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U, and textbook rentals live, you will need Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Sno... |
20 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Confirming rumors that January 19 would see the unveiling of a textbook creation platform, Apple yesterday introduced iBooks Author, a free tool for Mac users looking to create e-Books for iPad and iPhone consumption.The tool is primarily aimed at teachers, who can create textbooks not just for their own students, bu... |
20 January 2012
04:49 GMT |
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In addition to offering virtual wooden shelves and the iBookstore, Apple’s iBooks application now delivers “textbooks”, a cool new feature that allows you to “experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad”.These are developed using the iBooks Author app, available for free ... |
20 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Apple has announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring fullscreen “textbooks” with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, and all-new ways to navigate content; iBooks Author - now on the Mac App Store; and iTunes U, now available as a native app for students and teachers.Fulfilling Steve Jobs’ ... |
19 January 2012
12:39 GMT |
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Apple is holding its special media event focused on education today at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, at 10:00 AM Eastern / 7:00 Pacific.
The company is expected to put Internet Software Chief, Eddy Cue up on stage to talk about new versions of iBooks and textbook rentals, as well as Roger Rosner, the compa... |
19 January 2012
10:55 GMT |
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A proper education, doubled by environmental awareness, has to start at an early age to provide good results in time.
Perhaps this fact was a source of inspiration for Tezuka Architects, developing and implementing one of the most spectacular, eco-friendly kindergartens ever built worldwide.
Its minimalist design a... |
17 January 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Education has always been considered an essential step in the development of every individual. However, lack of resources makes pupils in poor countries draw their attention away from school activities.
Shilpa Joglekar, an environmentally friendly artist, is struggling to change this situation, by building fun, eco-... |
9 January 2012
08:38 GMT |
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Three newly- proposed bills seek to make the teaching of evolution obsolete in public classrooms. The documents call, in various forms, for the well-established theory to be thought as philosophy, rather than science, or for it to be interpreted as just another theory or idea.
The state of New Hampshire is leading t... |
3 January 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Nissan has recently launched a funny promotional video, aiming to celebrate its eco-friendly Leaf.
Plug and his friends are sent on a mission to Zero Planet, similar to Earth, but powered entirely by renewables like wind and solar power, Autobloggreen informs.
Even though Leaf has managed to capture the attention ... |
21 December 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Matchbox has announced that five Admissions Offices at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are the first six university programs in the world to use the iPad-centric Matchbox solution that re-thinks the admissions process so that universities can focus on r... |
19 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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This is definitely the best time of the year to be generous and worry about the fate of misfortunate people. Google is fully aware of this, since it announced its eagerness to offer some substantial grants to boost education, favor larger access to technology and help abolish modern slavery.
The company is willing t... |
15 December 2011
03:38 GMT |
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An interesting new project is boosting teaching methods in developing countries, bringing financially-challenged pupils one step closer to a proper education. Solar-powered classrooms are the next best thing announced by a chemistry academic from the University of Southampton, Science Daily informs. Quite often,... |
15 December 2011
02:34 GMT |
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Great Apes Film is currently testing the potential of a new sustainable and ingenious way of bringing educational films one step closer to the Ugandan people living in rural areas through its Pedal-Powered Cinema Project.
For almost three years, Great Apes Film Initiative has been trying to convince the public opini... |
14 December 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Not every preservation campaign has a happy ending, or enthusiastic participants, for that matter. This seems to be the case of the Ansford Academy in Castle Cary, Somerset, whose efforts of minimizing its ecological footprint has attracted the anger of hundreds of parents.
Apparently, the school's headmaster,... |
6 December 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Apple is featuring an original piece on its Hot News section to show how students at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, use Macs and iDevices to research class assignments and achieve better and better results.As the story goes, teachers at the school noticed that students were immediately drawn to interactive tools... |
21 November 2011
07:27 GMT |
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A recent conference of the United Nations Institute for Social Development has highlighted that the green trend does not only refer to the global economy and the impact human development has upon the environment. It is also a hot topic that has to be applied to the entire food system.
Since bad eating habits have n... |
21 November 2011
04:57 GMT |
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PBS KIDS has announced the launch of an augmented reality app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad called FETCH! Lunch Rush. The free app uses the iDevices’ cameras to overlay software graphics on top of the physical environment around you.The goal of the app, according to PBS, was to provide a tool that makes using... |
15 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Just 18 projects were celebrated as the winners of the 2011 Global Forum Educator Awards this week, selected from no less than 115 entries, according to Microsoft. In fact, in excess of 200,000 applicants competed at the various stages of the educator challenge in order to qualify for the 2011 Partners in Learning Gl... |
12 November 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Microsoft and the British Council have inked a five-year partnership designed to bring new opportunities to students in schools across six countries in Africa, as a part of the duo’s first project, announced today during the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum.
The two plan to build no less than 80 di... |
8 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Kristen Stewart, star of the “Twilight” franchise, has again incurred the wrath of many after publicly blasting her former teachers for not showing her more support in school, for which reason, she says in a new interview, she dropped out. Raised in a family with lots of experience in the movie industry, ... |
13 October 2011
05:01 GMT |
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John Riccitiello, who is the Chief Executive Officer of video game publisher Electronic Arts, has talked to the United States Chamber of Commerce and offered a range of advice about how the country should deal with issues like education and tax policy in order to push the economy forward and support the high technolo... |
23 September 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Over the next three years, Microsoft will be providing no less than 1 million low-income youth in the United States with Windows PCs, cheap Broadband Internet access, education software and job skills training. Simply by putting a computer in their homes and allowing them to take advantage of the world wide web, the... |
20 September 2011
12:07 GMT |
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One may have built a sort of standard image for what any tablet device is supposed to look like and be able to do, but Plastic Logic revealed something that doesn't quite qualify as one, nor as an e-reader, not exactly. E Ink e-paper may be the dominant greyscale display technology, but Plastic Logic has its o... |
12 September 2011
09:03 GMT |
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iTunes may be regarded as a fun-centric platform, but it’s also about education, such as with iTunes U - a powerful distribution system for lectures, language lessons, labs, audiobooks, even films.Described as an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students, iTunes U has had more than 60... |
9 September 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Like all other sorts of electronics and hardware components, projectors are often tailored for a specific set of tasks and working conditions, and the latest NEC product of this type exhibits this.The PH1000U is the newest projector that NEC has invented and officially launched, not too long a time after the V-Serie... |
8 September 2011
10:57 GMT |
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“We are entering the age of connectedness,” A Human Right organization says of its latest campaign, Buy This Satellite. If you ever wondered about the little you can do thanks to your access to the Internet, now is the time to act. Just hours ago, we were covering a story on Marc Anthony opening up about ... |
3 September 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Vito Technology have announced a special, Back to School update for their popular iPhone app, Solar Walk. Featured in Apple promo videos and boasting real 3D TV support, Solar Walk version 1.8 now brings more detailed Earth structure, 3D models of main satellites with real time trajectories and 3 new educational movi... |
1 September 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Being the biggest YouTube star isn’t always a good thing, as Rebecca Black knows now. Following the release of her “Friday” video, which went viral in a matter of hours, the 13-year-old singer has been bullied non-stop at school – so she’s now being schooled at home.
In a new intervi... |
11 August 2011
06:07 GMT |
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Matt Damon doesn’t seem to be the guy who loses his cool that quickly – unless, of course, you happen to be insulting something that’s close to his heart, as one reporter found out just recently, during the Save Our Schools March.Over the weekend, Matt joined his mother in the March, taking a stand ... |
3 August 2011
05:52 GMT |
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A Microsoft Partners in Learning initiative, the 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum has come to an end in July 2011, revealing no less than 11 winners, the top educators nationwide. The nine winning teams celebrated at the 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum will represent the United States at the upcoming Partne... |
2 August 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is stepping up its support efforts designed to drive innovation in education, with a focus on the role that technology can play to shape the children’s future. On July 17th, 2011, Anthony Salcito, Vice President, Worldwide Education, Microsoft announced that the Redmond company pledged no less than $1... |
18 July 2011
06:18 GMT |
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Bold decision or not, it has been found that South Korea decided it was time to move elementary-level education onto digitized platforms, relying on the newly formed tablet segment as the basis.Given the rate at which physical books have been losing ground, marketing-wise, to e-books, one could say it was only a mat... |
4 July 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Conan O’Brien, Coco, brought on the laughs in a very odd yet still extremely funny and inspirational commencement speech address to the graduating class of 2011 of Dartmouth College. You can see the entire address below, embedded at the end of the article. Coco started off by pointing that he ... |
14 June 2011
08:41 GMT |
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One may remember Kno and its dual-tablet project for education, but it looks like the outfit is going through a business outlet change, aided by Intel, which plans to invest in its operations.
Kno did, at one point, try to promote a dual-screen tablet for the educational sector, but it seems to have failed in its... |
9 April 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Paragon Software Group has launched Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 2011 for iOS. Described as a “portable world of knowledge,” the app requires no internet connection and occupies roughly 90 megabytes of space, which includes 25,000 articles complete with 2,700 maps and images, hyperlinked articles, and ... |
24 March 2011
12:41 GMT |
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In a new investigation, scientists looked at the type of regrets that the average American has, and discovered that they are roughly the same throughout the population. The team also found that most people experience significant amounts regret for things they have done wrong in the past. The study reveals that family... |
24 March 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Apple will finally unveil a revamped version of its MobileMe service sometime next month, in accordance with rumors of a planned cloud-based locker for storing media. Specifically, the upgraded version is expected to allow users to store music, photos and files online, and have them accessible on all their devices.Le... |
19 March 2011
10:34 GMT |
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As one of those IT players that deal in various different types of products, Samsung made more than a few announcements not long ago, one of which deals with some new laptops for the workplace.
Samsung is always looking to add more items on the consumer front, but that's not its only outlet, as it has extens... |
17 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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