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

Gary Wolf of Quantified Self writes: Princeton University Press has just reissued this classic essay ["The Usefulness of Useless...

Kelly McGonigal—Stanford psychologist, award-winning teacher, and author of the book The Upside of Stress—shares ideas for avoiding...

British YouTuber Charlie McDonnell breaks down the elusive scientific concepts in terms even kids can understand. #science #research #energy

A new study by IDC shows the market for smartwatches is shrinking. People think they are ugly, and mechanical watches are art....

Sara writes, "This new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University explores the current state of technology...

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...

In 2008, the Swiss/Danish design team Yarisal & Kublitz created their "Anger Release Machine," a vending machine stocked with "crystal...

Dylan William seeks to help educators achieve at higher levels. This classroom experiment is a great visual representation of how change,...

Computers have already beaten us at chess, Jeopardy and Go, the ancient board game from Asia. And now, in the raging war with machines,...