For the tablet generation, a lesson in digital citizenship
Parents pack into a gym at Cahuilla Desert Academy, a middle school in the southern California city of Thermal, NPR reports.
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Raising kids in a digital age
Last week, the NPR tech team reported a series on kids and digital media, including school-issued iPads, stories about babies and screen time, teens and social media, the…
Newtown residents demolish a school, and violent memories
Demolition has begun at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman killed 20 students and six adults last December, NPR reports.
This board game aims to teach preschoolers how to code
These days, the effort to get more of us writing computer programs has become part of an "everybody should learn to code" ethos that folks like President Obama…
New computer school makes French students teach themselves
A new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants, NPR reports.
Why aren’t more girls attracted to physics?
You don't need to be a social scientist to know there is a gender diversity problem in technology, NPR reports.
3D printer brings dexterity to children with no fingers
Richard Van As was working in his home near Johannesburg, South Africa, in May of 2011, when he lost control of his table saw, NPR reports.
Google execs say ‘The power of information is underrated’
Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen — coauthors of a new book, The New Digital Age — recently returned from a highly publicized trip to North Korea,…
What’s different about the brains of people with autism?
Like a lot of people with autism, Jeff Hudale has a brain that's really good at some things.
School spankings still allowed in 19 states
While punishing students by spanking them with paddles at school seems like a scene from Little House on the Prairie , it's still a reality for students in…