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15-year Old Student Hacks School's Computer System

A 15-year old student faces serious charges after he allegedly hacked his school's computer system and stole information on thousands of people. The minor succeeded in accessing the private information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, of more than 50,000 people. The name of the 15-year ol...

26 May 2008
08:42 GMT

15-year-old Student Breaks into School Computer System

It's not the first time we see such a security breach, but it seems like schools simply don't want to improve their security systems in order to protect the students and staff data. However, a few days ago, a 15-year-old student of the Downingtown West High School broke into the school computer system and a...

20 May 2008
10:07 GMT

Teens Think "Instant Messaging" Doesn't Mean "Writing"

A study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that most teens don't consider the electronic texts they enter on computers to be the same as the formal writing they do for schools and universities. According to the findings, no less than 85 percent of the teenagers with ages between 12 and 17...

25 April 2008
16:31 GMT

Apple Training Centers Join Forces. Training Alliance Website Up and Going

We've just received word that a group of independent Apple Authorized Training Centers has announced the formation of the Certified Training Alliance (CTA). CertifiedTraining.com is set to promote independent Apple Authorized Training Centers (AATCs) and the Apple Training and Certification they provide. "We for...

5 February 2008
10:12 GMT

Holocaust Banned in Schools?

An email claiming to know that students will no longer find out about the Holocaust in schools was dispatched last week and forwarded time and time again. A chain letter that could have created serious diplomatic problems for the United Kingdom, it was also found on various social networking sites, doing all the more...

5 February 2008
08:58 GMT

Birmingham City Schools Get 15,000 XO Laptops

After an extended voyage in the undeveloped countries, Negroponte's XO laptop has arrived to the United States schools. It may seem odd for a $200 laptop to emerge into schools where children are already familiar with computers, and you would rather consider the Eee PC solution than the rudimentary sub-notebook....

5 December 2007
10:26 GMT

Why are England's Kids Illiterate? Because of Video Games Of Course

Well, it sure seems that video games are to blame for everything. Teens steal, break and enter and even kill other people, all this because of video games. Not because our ways of dealing with problems change from one day to the next, due to hundreds of influential factors, but because of video games.Why do they blam...

30 November 2007
03:40 GMT

Hack Attack Makes Schools Go Crazy

The Palm Beach County School District spent approximately $1.5 million for security measures that are supposed to prevent data loss and the access of the unauthorized people inside the network. It all started from a security flaw occurred in 2006 when some students managed to break into the computers and modify some ...

23 November 2007
04:42 GMT

Electronic Field Trips Waiting for Your Click

It's a well-known fact that young people and kids in general prefer to stay at home and surf the web instead of going out so most of their hobbies are now related to the computer. That's why most things addressed to the children must adapt and became accessible via Internet and today's piece of news is...

16 November 2007
16:31 GMT

Hacker Modifying School Grades Equals 20 Years in Prison

We all dreamed of a way to modify our grades when we were in high-school because learning was too boring for us. But when you take attitude and break into your school's computers to do that, you might have a surprise: if you're caught, you might spend your next 20 years in prison. I guess you would prefer t...

5 November 2007
05:22 GMT

UK Schools Warned Against Microsoft Products

Becta, the UK computer agency has recently warned UK schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of its alleged anti-competitive practices. Microsoft is being accused of refusing to resolve some fundamental concerns about how its software is being licensed to schools. These concerns especially reg...

31 October 2007
08:08 GMT

Being Popular is on the Muscles

We may call ourselves Homo sapiens ("wise human"), but for a kid it is more important to be able to kick the ball or to be a good basketball partner. Athletic skills seem to be the key for social acceptance among school children: kids dislike Dexters, which are prone to sadness, isolation and social rejection in scho...

26 October 2007
04:52 GMT

Schoolgirl Humiliated on YouTube

It's a well known the fact that YouTube is one of the technologies which attract all kinds of clips, no matter if they are created by experts or by ordinary users with webcams or mobile phones. Every time a registered member uploads something which is prohibited on YouTube, the matter becomes a little bit more s...

10 October 2007
17:06 GMT

Google Earth: The Perfect Replacement for Traditional School!

Google Earth is the downloadable mapping tool which serves as the main application for an incredible number of purposes except the one presented by the super giant Google: view and analyze the satellite photos from every corner of the world. The latest one discovered by me today was actually mentioned by Google in an...

2 October 2007
15:41 GMT

YouTube Attracts Mother's Criticism

It's a well-known matter of fact that YouTube is the main attraction for the users looking to upload and share homemade content but this time, it is getting more serious as the published video is actually a school dispute between students. The clip showed a 16-year-old pupil from the Kavanagh College who, accord...

24 September 2007
10:52 GMT

GameStop Manager - Let's See the Good Grades and Then You Get the Game!

Wrote in a manner bound to make it up on slashdot.com's index, this piece of news tells the story of a GameStop manager who "speaking out of turn", decided to institute a "games for grades" policy, refusing to sell video games to any school-age customer unless that certain customer's legal guardian (or any ...

18 September 2007
06:51 GMT

Too Tired to Learn for Exams? No More Cheating Allowed!

The folks from Blackboard managed to build a revolutionary software solution that is meant to stop the student fraud and detect the copied content used in papers and exams. Since most of students gained access to the Internet, plagiarism boomed as almost any paper work could be found on the web. The only problem was ...

15 August 2007
05:07 GMT

Google Goes to School

Google Checkout, that special service powered by the Mountain View company that fights with PayPal for the supremacy of the online shopping domain, is again brought in the spotlights using a new offer addressed to pupils and parents. Basically, several stores registered for Google Checkout are selling school stuff su...

9 August 2007
14:46 GMT

Linux Integrates Well in Educational Institutions Too

What would the connection between Linux and the education process be? Well, it's very simple and obvious. The Linux operating system and usually the free software, could represent a good, if not better alternative to those currently used by schools and other educational institutions.The Kamloops/Thompson School...

6 June 2007
09:25 GMT

School Fights Posted on YouTube

A YouTube video showing several students assaulting another one caused some trouble at the Agnes Hodge elementary school after numerous parents viewed it. It seems that all the students involved in the fight were already disciplined but it's not quite clear what was the video showing, because it was removed by t...

31 May 2007
10:29 GMT

SUSE Linux Became the Standard Platform for San Diego School Initiative

The San Diego Unified School District is the second-largest school district in California and counts more than 130,000 students. Recently, school's officials made an announcement through which they claim to have chosen Novell's SLED10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) as the standard platform for their well-...

22 May 2007
17:58 GMT

Student Suspended Following a Clip Posted on YouTube

A senior from the Kentridge High School was suspended for 40 days after the school's officials discovered that he was involved in a clips showing class disruption. The video was actually created to make fun of a teacher after the students managed to record a clip during a normal class. Gregory Requa was suspende...

22 May 2007
17:06 GMT

Counter-Strike Map Gets Teen Arrested

A Chinese student living in the US, has managed to get himself arrested. Nothing spectacular so far - most of you are probably thinking that this has something to do with guns or drugs. Not even close! The vigilant law enforcers nailed him for a gaming-related "felony", Counter-Strike to be more exact, as Joystiq rep...

2 May 2007
12:34 GMT

High School Fight Posted on YouTube

A new clip posted on YouTube expelled four students from a Hastings school after they were involved in a fight recorded by a student. According to TV3, two students lured a 16-year old student in a park and attacked him while they were recorded by a fourth pupil. Although the school's official wanted to remain a...

25 April 2007
17:06 GMT

School Fights Published on Google's YouTube

Some new violent videos were published on Google's YouTube video-sharing solution displaying multiple students fighting in the schoolyard. Although numerous teachers were yelling at the students to stop fighting and recording, they continued the brawl and uploaded the movie on the video service provided by the s...

7 March 2007
09:01 GMT

School Promoting Wario Master Of Disguise

School isn't what it used to be...Remember those times when, as a student, you were obliged to learn whole pages by heart, mentioning the author, page and paragraph? Well, those days are over, now everything is music, film and video games. What, do you think I'm kidding? Schools actually promote video games...

5 March 2007
10:02 GMT

YouTube Banned In Australian Schools

YouTube, the video service provided by Google, contains a huge number of videos from all categories including sports, movies, entertainment, fun or even homemade movies. Because the product has millions of users that are continuously uploading new videos every day, the Australian authorities decided to block the serv...

1 March 2007
10:02 GMT




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