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Eesha Khare, 18-Year-Old, Invents Device That Charges Cell Phone Battery In Under 30 Seconds (Video)

Michele Cummins — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:25 +0000

18-year-old Eesha Khare, a students at Lynbrook High School in California has developed a device that can charge a cell phone in 20-30 seconds.

Micro-display LED tech could light up the next generation of face-wearable gadgets.

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:55:41 +0000

A tiny head-mounted display, like the one in Google Glass, will only be useful if you can see on-screen alerts and information clearly. And that’s tricky to achieve, especially without draining battery life—as Google notes, it can be hard to use Glass’s projected display in bright sunlight.

Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:07 +0000

Google released a major new education program today that organizes and manages the way teachers push apps, books, and other learning content to student tablets. Google Play for Education is like an app store designed especially for teachers with some powerful management tools built-in.

What Coding and Great Wine Have in Common

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:26:10 +0000

Computer science and coding literacy have become such a huge part of our daily lives and will be integrated into every industry in the future. This article describes why its important to introduce coding to students starting when they are young and how the maker movement is helping to do this.

What It Takes to Become an All Project-Based School

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:49:57 +0000

For one quickly growing network of schools, project-based learning is the crux of the entire ecosystem. New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, offers a paid program for schools to use its model is looking to take its school-wide project-based model to national scale.

New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:41:52 +0000

By the end of this month, Regal Cinemas plans to have distributed closed-captioning glasses to more than 6,000 theaters across the country. Sony Entertainment Access Glasses project captions onto the glasses that appear to float about 10 feet in front of the user.

Helping Youth Geek Out: Transforming Youth from Digital Consumers to Digital Makers

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:31:10 +0000

This article describes the role museums have in helping youth become digital makers rather than just digital consumers and describes some of the programs various museums currently have in place to further this initiative.

MakerBot and Robohand -- 3D Printing Mechanical Hands

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:26 +0000

When a woodworker in South Africa’s fingers were cut off in an accident he set out to make a set of mechanical fingers. This video describes his collaborative project to create a 3D Printed hand called Robohand.

Copyright and the Digital Generation

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:51:26 +0000

This article delves into why museums often put photography polices in place and the copyright issues surrounding the art on display in museums.

Google I/O: The end of search as we know it?

Michele Cummins — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:07:13 +0000

Google is working to expand its voice search capabilities so that it will answer, converse, and anticipate. We will soon be able to search with naturally phrased questions.

Molding the next generation of computer scientists

Michele Cummins — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:24:23 +0000

Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) was started by a software developer at Microsoft who began teaching computer science at a nearby high school each morning before work and soon launched the initiative that places high-tech professionals as part-time teachers in schools. His goal is to see that every high school in the country has a computer science course.

The Teacher’s Guide To Using Badges In Your Classroom

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:44:50 +0000

This article explains how badges work, how they have been used in the past, and why they are important to incorporate now.

The Incredible Way A Michigan Physics Teacher Uses Google Glass

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:38:11 +0000

A physics teacher from Michigan took his pair of Google Glass(es) to CERN to check out the Large Hadron Collider. He then streamed the feed of his experience into classrooms back home.

Dekko wants to take augmented reality beyond a 'marketing gimmick'

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:34:33 +0000

US startup Dekko has raised $3.2m of funding to fuel its ambitions for technology that it describes as a "visual layer for wearable computing devices".

University of Florida embraces Internet2′s 100-gigabit network, launches new supercomputer

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:30:03 +0000

The University of Florida has implemented Internet2’s next-gen computing architecture. The 300 or so universities and government labs that belong to Internet2 have been able to access a 100Gb network backbone since its launch in 2006. But on Tuesday UF became only the fourth university to roll out a full 100Gbps connection to Internet2 (most other schools are still at 10Gbps and working to expand to full bandwidth).

Cloud Jargon Unwound: Distinguishing Saas, IaaS and PaaS [Infographic]

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:59:55 +0000

As cloud computing dominates more and more aspects of the tech world, similar-sounding but confusingly different something-as-a-service acronyms keep piling up. This infographic does a good job of explaining the differences between Iaas, SaaS, and Paas, and who uses which one for what.

App building class turns students into developers

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:36 +0000

Journalism students at The University of Texas at Austin learned to build a mobile news app. This article describes the project and why such a skill is important in other areas besides just computer science.

Online students and teachers are no different from the rest of academia

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:43:51 +0000

David Newton, a professor of business studies who teaches online discusses views of online learning, why students take online courses, and why there is and will always be a need for both physical schools and online schools.

Balboa Park Commons is Now Live

Michele Cummins — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:40:30 +0000

The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media

Michele Cummins — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:47:16 +0000

This is the first of a four-part series investigating and explaining how to overcome the challenge of integrating technology in an impactful way. Using the iPad as an example, this will explain how teachers can take students on a journey from consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection.