May 21, 2012, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will see the sponsors of the 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge honoring the next generation of game developers involved in trying to unlock the promise of breakthrough technologies to transform teaching and learning. The National STEM Video Game Challenge is a multi-year [...]

  Brogrammers, it seems, are everywhere – a deadly combination of marginalized computer science nerd with the (ahem!) charm and smarts of a frat house beer-chugger. Thanks to the rise of the geek (it’s possible we can blame all this on Mark Zuckerberg), computer programmers have been leaving the four-eyed stereotype behind. Instead, a culture [...]

  One of the more-anticipated of Google’s recent product roll-outs, Google Drive has arrived and the reviews are pouring in. On the whole, they’re favorable, and it looks like Google Drive is ready to play with the big boys of cloud storage like Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive. This cloud storage system gives users 5GB of [...]

    We wrote at the beginning of the month about “Robo-Readers”, computer programs that can “read” and grade compositions and reports. Then, on April 11th, a study was released that concluded that these programs are as capable of scoring standardized test essays as humans. Is it time for teachers to take a backseat and [...]