Filed under: Education, Widget Watch
While the app store ecosystem for the iPhone, and now iPad, are filled with a host of useful apps to help students convert, translate and calculate figures and words, there may be times where an iPhone or iPad...
Education iPad orders delayed, campus stores may sell iPads
Filed under: iPad
First the bad news. We've received several tips from customers who ordered iPads via Apple's online education store saying that their shipments will be delayed. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/02/education-ipad-orders-delayed-campus-stores-may-sell-ipads/'; tweetmeme_source = 'tuaw';
Several customers wrote in...First Look: CourseNotes for iPad
Filed under: iPad
CourseNotesApp developer Jon Klein was kind enough to send over this video of his upcoming iPad app. Aimed at students, this app not only simplifies iPad note taking, but helps keep those notes organized by time and subject. I showed this video around to a student-heavy group...Pros and Cons of the iPad in Education
While Liam opined about the challenges an iPad can face in education here, I thought I’d tackle some potential real-world pluses and minuses from the viewpoint of a college student. I think the iPad is going to succeed in education marvelously for students and teachers.
Computer science enrollment continues growth, but PhDs down
Student enrollment in computer science has continued an upward trend that started last year. Total enrollment by undergrad computer science majors is up 5.5 percent over last year, a shallower recovery than the year before. However, the numbers on gender and ethnic diversity are less impressive, and the field has seen its...
Why Apple’s iPad Can’t Succeed in Schools (Yet)
Apple has started making the iPad available on its online education store in packs of 10 with an appallingly–stingy discount of only $20 per iPad. If Apple wants to start a computing revolution with the iPad, it absolutely must get the device into schools. But in [...]
feature: Rube Goldberg competition gets teens excited about STEM
In recent years the US has begun to lag in education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a number of efforts are underway to
Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently...Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it
Detached teens use Internet and TV more—or vice versa?
Parents of Internet- or TV-addicted teens finally have confirmation of something they have long suspected: the more screen exposure teenagers get, the more detached they are from those around them. Those are...
“Spying” school agrees to preserve evidence in Laptopgate
The school district responsible for allegedly "spying" on a high school student in his own home has agreed not to remove webcam images from any of the 2,300 student-issued MacBooks. In...
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