More college professors hitting delete on laptops in classrooms The Dallas Morning News | WASHINGTON - A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. | But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube video...
Student innovations have no takers in India The Times Of India AHMEDABAD: Around six lakh students graduate from technical institutes every year in our country and none of their 'innovative' project works is considered worthy of a patent. There exists no arrangement in our education system to recognise these efforts. | In fact, the much-touted 'black box' being...
School follows innovative method to teach children The Hindu | Special Correspondent | For effective learning:Pigeons reared in a private school in Thiruvarur. | TIRUVARUR: Bird rearing is no doubt an interesting hobby. But it can also be a way of teaching if one goes by the method adopted at Oyster Learning I...
Queen invented phone, pupils say BBC News | One in 10 children think the Queen invented the telephone, a survey of children's science knowledge suggests. | One in 20 of the 1,000 pupils polled thought Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson was the first man on the moon. | Six out of 10 nine and 1...
40,000 inspired school children vie for honours Deccan Chronicle 40,000 inspired school children vie for honours | Chennai, March 12: More than 40,000 school students from Tamil Nadu are competing for the INSPIRE sc-holarships instituted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Central government f...
Bryant & Stratton College Online Announces the Salute to Spouses Scholarship Program The Examiner | Wisconsin Lutheran College signs transfer agreement with UW Colleges Bryant & Stratton College Online launches nine new certificate programs Nontraditional educational opportunities in the Milwaukee area Mount Mary College signs transfer agreement ...
Investing in Innovation to Reach "Education's Moonshot" The White House Posted by Jim Shelton on March 03, 2010 at 12:02 PM EST | In February 2009, President Obama stood before a joint session of Congress and announced that by 2020 the United States would once again have the highest percentage of college-educated adults ...
Innovative insights The Star | educate@thestar.com.my | Creativity is about empowering students with the ability to look at the world in new ways | IN a brigh and cheerful room, a small group of preschoolers quietly embark on the day's art lesson. | Filled with colourful plastic...
Google 99.9% sure to shut China search engine: Report The Times Of India SHANGHAI: Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 per cent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. | It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine. | The newspa...
How the biggies around here hired and fired; supersize me, Starbucks Seattle Times | Many of the region's biggest public companies recently filed their year-end regulatory reports, revealing among other things a data point that some of them don't otherwise discuss - jobs. | The numbers provide a sobering look at how sharply many of them shrank during the Great Recession. A few, though, powered right through the downturn with hiri...
