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According to new information from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, tablet ownership has jumped from about 1 out of every 10 Americans to approximately 19 percent. The previous study was conducted around the middle of December, thus the massive increase in tablet ownership can likely be attributed to the holiday shopping season. While Apple's iPad definitely helped boost that percentage, less expensive tablets… Read More

According to a recent article in the NY Post, a group of Long Island students will soon be wearing Polar Active fitness monitors. While the school district hasn't specified how long the students have to wear the device each day or if participation is voluntary, data collected within the device is uploaded to a computer server by the teacher for tracking purposes and long-term data storage. Similar to the popular fitness tracking device… Read More

The innovative Raspberry Pi project has entered the home straight, as production of the first wave of computers has begun. The brainchild of David Braben, best known to many as the co-writer of the epic space-trading game Elite, the idea behind Raspberry Pi is to encourage high school students to learn computer programming, without the school needing a huge budget. As previously reported, there will be two Raspberry Pi models. Model A will cost… Read More

You’re heading off to college soon or already en route. Or, maybe you’re a parent of a college student and you want your son or daughter to be as comfortable as possible. There’s no need to leave your high-tech gadgets at home, and you can pick right up where you left off in L.A. Noire or whatever game you’re into these days. This gear is intended for adding some pizazz to your dorm room in terms of quality audio gear, a wireless router, and… Read More

Though we haven't seen many laptops or tablets tackle textbooks  in the U.S. yet, South Korea isn't waiting for consumers. The country's Ministry of Science and Technology has announced that it will digitize its entire elementary-level educational textbooks and materials by 2014. Topping that goal, the entire school-age curriculum will be available on computers, smartphones, and tablets by by 2015. To make this happen, the… Read More

Dishing out cash every semester for new books that cost a bundle is probably one of the biggest gripes among college students. Renting, however, is an alternative that can save you money even when compared to buying used. There are many legitimate online companies that rent books and have been doing so for years. Below we’ve run down the list of our favorite online textbook rental sites so you can put some extra money towards paying back those… Read More

Forget loops for ice picks and built-in hydration systems. Unless you happen to attend school on a precarious mountain perch in southwestern Peru, you need a backpack that caters to a different set of needs. Like room for your laptop and MP3 player. A separate pocket to divide sweaty gym clothes from notebooks. A pocket that can keep a can of Coke cold until lunch. And we’ve found backpacks that deliver. These slick back-to-school backpacks… Read More

Ever wonder if that pinhole camera gazing ominously at you from the top of your laptop display might be seeing more than you intended? If you’re a student at Lower Merion School District, it might be giving school officials an eyeful. A new class-action lawsuit from the parents of Blake Robbins, a student at Merriton High School, alleges that school officials were able to monitor their son using the embedded webcam in a school-issued laptop.… Read More

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a radical idea, but it is – Internet access for every school child. That’s exactly what the British government is proposing, according to a story in theGuardian, and schools minister Jim Knight has been talking to technology companies about ways to make it happen. Currently about one million kids don’thave computers at home.   It’s part of a greater IT initiative. The first leg will see… Read More

A new study shows that which social networking site you use can help show your social status.   According to research by PhD student Danah Boyd from the School of Information Sciences at UC Berkeley, Facebook users comes from homes with a higher income and are more likelyto attend college. By contract, Myspace users usually go straight to work following high school and don’t pursue a degree.   Boyd’s researchalso shows that… Read More

While some school districts in the US are dealing with record budget cuts, the students and teachers in the Olathe Unified School District in Olathe, Kansas get another 2,300 Palm handhelds to play with thanks to a recent purchase. Today's purchase of the new Palm TX PDA's now doubles the school district's current inventory. The Olathe Unified School District is considered one of the most technologically progressive school… Read More

Apple has recently introduced iTunes U. to students and things are looking up. The maker of the popular music software wanted to expand the ability of their iTunes Music Store by making it possiblefor students from across the country to download lectures from either their school or any other participating school. Apple offers colleges and universities a special version of iTunes that gives the school the ability to post media such as podcasts or… Read More

Networking company Cisco today said they were deploying several large-scale wireless local area networks into K-12 school districts across the nation as students prepare to go back to school. This deployment is part of a growing trend of wireless use in public schools. The deployment, Cisco said, spans from

No more lugging around backpacks crammed full of dry textbooks. This fall a high school in Vail, Arizona will go wireless. The school will dispense with traditional textbooks, and students will carry laptops instead. Lessons will be taught using electronic and on-line articles. Experts say Vail Unified School District's choice to become an "e-school" is atypical. Switching to an all-wireless classroom is often prevented by cost,… Read More

“Only students enrolled in certain classes will get the free gadgets. The school, which hoped the $300 players would enhance students' learning by allowing them to record lectures, capture oral notes and play language-training recordings, spent $500,000 on the pilot project. That covered the iPods, salary for an academic computing specialist and grants to faculty members who participated in the program.” Read more at… Read More