Survey Reveals Ed Tech Is Progressing, if Slowly
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has released the results of its third annual national education technology survey, and the major findings indicate that American primary and secondary schools and colleges are definitely showing progress in ed tech implementation, but that the pace of that progress is slow and grudging.
MoreAMD Game Design Education Program Deployed at Beijing Middle School
Activate!, a Web-based service operated by technology giant AMD aimed at helping middle schoolers learn and practice beginning video game design, has be adopted at the Dandelion Middle School in Beijing, China.
MoreCarnegie Mellon Invents Robot Moves To Boost Science, Technology Majors
A push to inspire kids to pursue careers in computers science and other technology and science areas is getting a four-year, $7 million boost at Carnegie Mellon University.
MoreVirtual Telescope Adds Mars Experience, 'Terapixel Sky Map'
The WorldWide Telescope, an online virtual telescope operated through a partnership between Microsoft Research and NASA, has been expanded with a new, interactive view of Mars and a spherical sky map that Microsoft described as the "largest and highest-quality spherical image of the sky currently available."
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