For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk , which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational organizations would echo the…

Speculation about the Apple Tablet mostly focuses on what the device is , not how it works. Text input, more than anything else, is the problem Apple needs to solve to make this work. So how will they do it? CES was rotten with new tablets, some Android , some not, some with fascinating screens , …

The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes ,  many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students , and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies . In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. …

Uruguay’s been a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child initiative for quite some time, and while we’re still unsure if it’s the entity’s biggest customer, the aforesaid nation is certainly doing some serious business with Nicholas Negroponte and Company. After the first swath of youngsters received their green and…

History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback . Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites…

Allow me to lay a scene: It’s 7:00 am. The kids need to be fed and bundled off to school. The toast is burning. The cat just knocked a pile of papers off the counter, and you’ve got a big presentation to give in an hour and you haven’…

Are you ready for this? Can you stomach the truth? If things continue spiraling madly out of control as they are right now, there’s at least a modicum of a chance that your children or grandchildren will greet a lifelike robot when sashaying in for the first day of kindergarten…

The historians once pontificated that we’d all be cruising about in flying cars right around the year 2000, and while that whole Y2K fiasco threw us a tad behind schedule, it looks like the future may actually still be upon us. Parajet, the same company responsible for that downright unnerving personal flying machine …

Snooth , the global wine community , has a comprehensive database of wines and merchant information that is a powerful resource for discovering new wines. Now, wine novices and snobs alike will appreciate that they can access all of this information while dining out or shopping with the Snooth Wine iPhone app . The free location-aware …

Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a way to learn to play the guitar easy, fun and self-paced thanks to video-based lessons that trigger LED’s in the neck, which signify finger placement. The Story: Traditionally, learning to play a real guitar is long and boring at best. Lessons, books and instruments…