Macarthur study shows online important for teen development -- but by what metrics
An attorney for a suspended Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher said Thursday she never intended for the public to view negative comments she made about students on Facebook.
But the case is now part of a national debate that pits teachers' right to free expression against how communities expect them to behave.
Despite an endless succession of startups claiming to “beat” Google and Yahoo, there’s not, strictly speaking, any need to do so. For the average consumer search has been solved, with most searches ending satisfactorily. DeepDyve wants to tap another group of users: Students, researchers and other “information workers” who need to quickly find expert-level data.
The perfect way to collaborate on a text document
and keep everyone literally on the same page--just like the old Moon Edit!
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
A look at cyberinfrastructure and the difficulty in quality control for e-research
In the ten years that have followed, this vision of the future has proven to be remarkably robust. I have found, on rereading and reworking the essay, that though there may have been some movement in the margins, the overall thrust of the paper was essentially correct. This gives me confidence in my understanding of those forces and trends that are moving education today.
Alabama is the latest in a series of states mandating a course via distance learning as a prerequisite for graduation.
KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are pleased to present the 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. Created by a range of experts and analysts, the map is a forecast of the future, and each element on the map represents forces that could affect learning in the next decade. Many of these forces can work in tandem, and they could also appear seemingly unc