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IXL acquires NoRedInk with a promise of continuity. Its documents show why schools must distinguish teacher-approved AI feedback from direct student responses.

US secretly tests Chinese AI for political bias, revealing models like DeepSeek and Qwen align with Beijing’s views on Tiananmen, Uyghurs, and Xi Jinping.

The early 1920s were the years of the one-room schoolhouse. A few years later, in 1923, classrooms began incorporating radios into their lessons. By 1933,...

When people think of “BitTorrent” most of them think of the peer-to-peer file sharing program that they use to pirate movies, games, music, and...

There you are. It's 1993 and you're sporting he hair, the youthful look of post-teen angst, the smile of one dedicated to making it in a Clinton-era,...

Well, it wasn't easy, but integrating more technological resources in schools is finally starting to pay off. Eighty-seven percent of parents think that...

It's a different era. The digital world is molding children in a way that is completely different from their parents. Some may say that it's always the...

They can survive temperatures near absolute zero or as high as 300 degrees. The crushing pressure at the bottom of the ocean doesn't faze them, nor does...

Leave it to the folks at Minute Physics to give enjoy thinking harder than you really want to for under four minutes.

Hydrophobic and oleophobic coating may sound like something boring that you'd find in a college chemistry textbook, but it also helps bring into existence…

Minute Physics Mythbusters tackled the question of whether or not you stay most dry (or rather, least wet) by walking or running in the rain.

In recent years, there has been a much stronger focus at an academic level when it comes to pop culture. Society now has the ability through television...

Social media is proving to be a gold mine for professionals in the area of marketing and public relations. Marketing career data suggests that more...

Everyone is talking about Pinterest for business or Pinterest for marketing but what about Pinterest for education? Can the fastest-growing social network...

There has been a push to replace books in the educational arena for some time now. This push hasn't been in Washington or school board meeting rooms even...

Anyone with kids (and many adults, for that matter) are aware that achievements garnered through performing certain activities in games are sought after...

Some day in the (very) near future, we may no longer need a traditional backpack at school. Rather than carrying around a laptop and textbooks, we will be...

Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been...

The new global economy isn’t defined by the battle for the newest machines or precious ore, but a battle of ideas. Not ideas like concepts, fantastic...

Blogging can be rough (from a #firstworldproblems perspective, at least). You're constantly being attacked for your opinions, bashed for your mistakes,...

Asking why childhood education is important is like asking why oxygen is useful. The benefits are obvious, but the best thing about smart educated people...

Colleges have always been a venue for the latest and greatest in technology to not only be used, but often created as well. Today's and tomorrow's college...

The growth of the internet over the past two decades has sparked a dramatic increase in its use as an education medium. Websites are popping up every week...

Sometimes the hardest part of getting a degree isn’t the final exam or the big midterm project. It’s getting started. Hell, sometimes it’s just...