September - 2016

MIT App Inventor 2 beta is a Great Way to Introduce Design to a Coding Curriculum

There are probably many ways to catch a monkey in the wild. One of the most effective is insidious in its simplicity. (full article) The...

As a new school year gets underway, the Common Core remains a partisan flashpoint, while Americans overall have serious concerns about...

Last year, Podo Labs released the first iteration of the Podo — a Bluetooth-controlled, stick-on camera — on Kickstarter, and now the...

Sailorhg's Glitchy website is a drag-and-drop way to glitchify photos. #glitchy #website #photo #editing

I've been writing "design fiction" for years (see, for example, Knights of the Rainbow Table), and when people ask me to explain it, I...

CloudPress is a responsive WordPress theme builder that allows you to create a whole site in less than 30 minutes. CloudPress comes with...

The San Francisco startup today began selling build-a-drone kits for kids age 14 and up comprised of: LEGO bricks, boom arms and motors...

In the next five years, we'll start to rethink a lot about education, from what's in school lunches to what a college degree really...

There are quite a few steps you need to take before you become a teacher. To become an elementary school teacher in a public school, for...

They read a book quietly under their desks, pester the teacher for extra credit, or, perhaps, they simply check out and act up. Every...