Possible intergenerational tension.An insurance company predicts enterprises facing challenges managing both Millenials and seniors working past retirement age.
The number of international high school students is rising.
Colorado project3d prints texture-heavybooks intended for blind children.
While PC sales are dropping more slowly than last year, Gartner predicts they will be outpaced by tablets within one year.Mobile phone sales massively exceed both
Google and Novartis agreed to develop contact lenses with wireless sensorcapabilities.
Facebook claimed 829 million daily active users and 1.3 billion monthly users.
Amazon announceda Kindle ebook rental service, modeled on the Netflix streaming movie service
he Associated Press is trialing the use of computer programs to write some newspaper storiesin the business area
A new form of microchip construction, directed self-assembly, may allow manufacturers to continue cramming more processing power and memory into smaller spaces
One university reports good results in sending daily support messages to students via mobile phones.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin launched a learning management system, only accessible by iPad and Google Chromebook devices
n educational gaming association launched.
Many federal offices are running crowdsourcing initiatives to help with operational challenges
“Reading comprehension research with multi-touch devices is still in its infancy and students will need to adapt new reading strategies in order to maximize their learning in this environment.”
“The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment,”
Maybe new note-taking skills require nothing more than a shift in perspective.
giving students the “ability to talk to the text, to create an internal dialogue with the text,” is the best way to help students understand what they’re reading