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Update: this article has been modified to correct an erronneous statement saying Apple had given out the free iPods, whereas the school was behind the initiative, purchasing said iPods from Apple.Reports say that over 1,000 students at a school in Bolton (ESSA Academy) are on track to receive a free iPod “as pa... |
2 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Headmaster David New from the Nailsea School near Bristol, UK, has decided that a very hip pair of trousers will no longer be allowed on school premises. All girls wearing these pants will be sent home and reprimanded, New says, much to the outrage of the parents who see no reason why they should pay more money on an... |
7 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Winter Wolves Game Studio has announced the release of Science Girls, a new role playing game (RPG) for Mac OS X. Players meet and recruit a variety of characters to help them as they explore the area around a school, engaging in turn-based combat with a constantly increasing number of enemies. The game costs US$9.99... |
1 June 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Apple has kicked off this year's Back to School promo with the announcement that students in the US can buy a Mac and iPod touch at the same time to qualify for an online rebate. Individuals that are eligible to purchase a Mac using the Apple education discount include any employee of a public or private K-12 in... |
27 May 2009
10:44 GMT |
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I-O Corp has announced a partnership with Aqua Connect that allows I-O’s ProEdge thin clients to connect to an OS X Leopard server to run Mac apps, while providing traditional support for Windows programs. With this announcement, I-O Corporation pledges its continuing efforts to provide thin client support for ... |
26 May 2009
07:55 GMT |
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Softbank Mobile and Aoyama Gakuin University have announced a partnership to distribute iPhone units to all students attending the university’s school of social informatics. This is the second school this month announcing the inclusion of Apple handsets as learning tools. Softbank is Japan’s only cellphon... |
19 May 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Brian Brooks, associate dean of the MU School of Journalism, tells the Missourian that, “Lectures are the worst possible learning format. There’s been some research done that shows if a student can hear that lecture a second time, they retain three times as much of that lecture.” Brooks believes stu... |
11 May 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Apple has announced an initiative to recycle outdated or unwanted Mac computers occupying valuable space in schools, free of charge. The program, available until July 31, 2009, also extends to PCs and qualifying peripherals from any manufacturer, according to Apple. “This spring, Apple will recycle your school&... |
8 May 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Bullying is a serious issue in schools all over the world. In the wake of two 11-year-old American boys taking their own lives after being bullied and harassed on school grounds, Disney star Demi Lovato is speaking up against such common practices, saying that authorities should get more involved in these incidents, ... |
25 April 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Britain’s youngest Olympic competitor Tom Daley has been pulled from school for an entire week now because of bullying and the repeated threats he receives from older boys, The Guardian informs. Speaking out on the issue, Daley, who is just 14, says the situation has gotten to a point where he can’t just ... |
24 April 2009
06:17 GMT |
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A new scientific study released by experts at the University of Miami looks at the influence that personal traits such as physical attractiveness have on academic performances and on how students, both male and female, make use of their beauty. It has also sought to understand if a person's beauty is enough to p... |
23 April 2009
06:58 GMT |
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What with television sets becoming a fixture in most rooms of our houses, it’s no wonder that children are already starting to show in school the negative effects that much exposure to TV shows has. As Dr. Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK, points out, childr... |
31 March 2009
15:21 GMT |
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On Wednesday, authorities in Bellefontaine, Ohio, announced that a fourth-grade teacher had been retained for soliciting clients, as part of her second “job.” The 35 year-old woman reportedly used the school's computer to log on to the Craiglist website, and hook up with “clients.” She wa... |
12 February 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The way teenagers dress at school these days has been much debated in recent years. The need for a uniform or a certain dress code, as well as that of setting some rules as to what is deemed appropriate on school grounds has also been a burning topic, with no definite solution in sight. However, at the Rednock School... |
23 January 2009
13:51 GMT |
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The decreasing number of male teachers is no longer an issue we are not familiar with, especially since, all along the years, different publications have taken it upon themselves to sound the alarm on this topic. Schools worldwide have now reached a point where they can’t but complain about the “endangere... |
22 January 2009
06:26 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a lesson that needs to be taught to any console manufacturer. It became a sales phenomenon after it was launched and it is still selling strong, trumping its two arch rivals, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation, which are both way more powerful than Nintendo's product, but which don't share... |
19 January 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto is a franchise that has been blamed for quite a lot of bad things. From teaching children that violence is fun or that shooting people on the street is rewarded to engaging in police chases just for the thrills, no aspect of the game has been left untouched by various anti-video game representatives,... |
13 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Saratoga, CA-based Edison Labs University has announced an introductory 4-day course for developers seeking to rapidly acquire the basic skills and knowledge to develop professional-level iPhone apps. Advanced courses are available as well, while the introductory course is available at a special price. If you'r... |
12 January 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Setting school start times a bit later than 7.30 AM might prove to be a good way for those in charge of the educational system to reduce daytime sleepiness among children, increase their ability to accumulate new information, and, most importantly, reduce the number of car crashes teens get into over not much nightly... |
15 December 2008
02:29 GMT |
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A school-based program that was underway in Seattle in the 1980s proved to have far-reaching effects, showing a great influence on adults 24- and 27-years old, as well as on their parents and relatives. The Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP) was meant to teach unfavored children how to function properly in and... |
12 December 2008
07:40 GMT |
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Recent researches show that e-learning is a much more student-oriented alternative than classic studies, where teachers simply dictate content to students, and the latter write it down. Interaction was proven to stimulate the learning process more than simply presenting the knowledge to a room full of children. Gradu... |
10 December 2008
06:30 GMT |
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Apple Inc has hired the dean of Yale University's business school to start the Apple University. It's not going to become the basis of an Apple cult, but rather a facility where future Apple staffers will (allegedly) be initiated in the ways of the company.Citing the Cupertino-based Mac maker, the Wall Stre... |
23 October 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Following the start and subsequent end of Apple's US Back to School promo, which included a “free” iPod touch (8GB) for all students buying a new Mac, the offer has come to the UK as well. However, don’t think Apple is handing out free nanos or anything like that. As a student at a higher educa... |
17 September 2008
06:40 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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