Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am stops by the What's Trending studio with a couple of robot friends. He talks about his work with F.I.R.S.T. and how import...
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones, to power up their iPads, and to log in to Twitter.
What makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of course, cell phones. One of my most surprising moments upon entering a very basic primary school in rural Ayenhyah, Ghana - a room with no electricity or running water - was being told that the school had a no cell-phone policy. Students have such a hunger for communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any...
Students in a two-year ethnographic study referred to Google more than any other database when discussing their research habits. But ironically, they weren't very good at using it.
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