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The longtime problem of digital inequity has been thrown into sharp relief by the coronavirus pandemic as schools turn to online learning. Washington state is calling on the tech and telecom industries to help narrow that digital divide now that in-person learning is canceled for the rest of the…

Zoom, a video conferencing app that many people are using at the current time to keep in touch with coworkers while working from home, wa

2020 Educators in VR International Summit February 17-22, 2020 The 2020 Educators in VR International Summit is a free, open-to-the public, virtual event lasting 6 days (over 150 round-the-clock hours) with a diverse range of over 150 speakers and presentations covering: Down to The Basics of VR/AR/XR/MR Research into Spatial Technologies in Education Corporate Uses…

‎This book introduces twenty recipes that are a playful approach to professional learning. They represent what our team has learned over more than a hundred years of combined experience in education. We organized our book by the sort of materials each recipe requires (boards, cards, dice and quizzes)…

The project, costing $575 million, was pursued despite concerns from the start that it wouldn't work. Here's why it didn't.

Every year Technovation invites girls around the world to learn and apply the skills they need to solve a community problem using technology.

Racial or ethnic minorities made up 20% of teachers in public elementary and secondary school teachers in 2015-16, but 51% of students.

Astronomers used a network of telescopes around the world to take a picture of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand what privacy means—he can’t be trusted to define it for the rest of us.

Apple is offering new free trial options for Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X, its video and audio editing software designed fo

The Zoom iOS app is sharing data with Facebook, without declaring it in the privacy policy. This happens whether or not you have a Facebook account. Data shared with Facebook includes your iPhone o…

The "no reentry" rule that's applied at most major venues can make a family coping with sensory needs think twice about whether they go to an event like a professional football game.

In recent years, design thinking has becoming an increasingly common buzzword in many different sectors, including education. Over the past few months we have been working to refine a design thinki…

The City of Chicago’s Department of Aviation thought it was paying an approved vendor more than $1 million for services earlier this year. But your tax dollars didn’t reach them.

The Event Horizon Telescope imaged the supermassive beast lying some 55 million light-years away in a galaxy called M87.