10 jobs destined for robots
The robots are coming, and they want our jobs, InformationWeek reports.
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3 big Facebook policy changes
Facebook users beware: Your posts and likes can be turned into ads shown to your friends and others, depending on your privacy settings, InformationWeek reports.
Open Educational Resources: Smart policy
Education faces many challenges today, and those challenges are growing, InformationWeek reports.
Study: Blended learning improves test scores
A new study by the RAND Corporation and the Department of Education gives new credibility to the popular notion that blended learning -- a combination of traditional classroom…
Automated essay grading software stirs debate
Technology automates. It does other things, too, but its main value, and the thing we fear about it, is its ability to automate, InformationWeek reports.
Do we need a U.S. Department Of Technology?
Tech industries grow because of the availability of research and development dollars, a high-quality education system, a tech-savvy workforce, a large local technology marketplace and government incentives, InformationWeek…
For algebra, spreadsheets beat newer teaching tools
If you do a search on "from arithmetic to algebra" as a verbatim phrase, you'll get about 600 hits, with the ones from Google Books reaching back into…
20 people who changed tech: The internet pioneers
My father wasn't much for gardening, InformationWeek reports.
Original iPhone nears obsolete status
Even at its 2007 launch, the original Apple iPhone was not a cutting-edge product, InformationWeek reports.
Education data: Privacy backlash begins
As increasing amounts of student, class and school data are captured and analyzed, some people have started to sound alarms about potential privacy violations and other kinds of…
Google ‘mortified’ over Wi-Fi data gathering
Google on Friday confirmed that its Street View cars had inadvertently captured e-mail messages and passwords during their image gathering missions, the result of WiFi sniffing software that…
Apple offers app store discounts to schools
Apple has introduced a volume purchase program for schools looking to buy applications for students' iPhones, iPod Touches, or iPads, InformationWeek reports.
iPhone 4 antenna glitch sparks lawsuit
A pair of Maryland residents filed a lawsuit against Apple on June 30, claiming the iPhone 4's wonky antenna has caused them "emotional distress," InformationWeek reports.
iPad eMail accounts hacked
InformationWeek reports that hackers broke into AT&T's servers and stole eMail account information on more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, the network carrier disclosed on June 9.