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The convergence of technology and aging continues toreceive prominent attention from researchers in medicine, engineering andgerontology. The UCLA Center on Aging held its third annual Technology & Aging Conference“Science Changing Lives” […]

I do not rejoice in anyone’s death but I am glad Bin Laden has met his maker and grateful to those servicemen and women who put themselves in harm’s way to […]

I greatly enjoyed Clive Thompson’s recent Wired article on netbooks. For years laptop manufacturers have been giving us more and more powerful computers: bigger hard drives, more memory, faster processing […]

Other than maybe “cloud computing” (which I still don’t really get) and mobile computing (in all of its permutations, but especially on the iPhone), it’s hard to think of a […]

Marc Goodman tells Big Think that in the future “the virtual agents of good and evil will do battle in cyberspace–making this a very interesting field to be in!”

[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]

Near-Earth Asteroids are a threat to our planet, but they also represent an opportunity to generate enormous wealth, and may drive the commercial space race. 

Mark your calendars! The second annual Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I) will be at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines on April 20, 2011, from 9am to 5pm. In our first […]

Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… n From Digital […]

Yesterday I concluded my series of posts related to gaming, cognition, and education. The purpose of the series was to illustrate some of the powerful learning principles that are present […]

Is the computer really a better pencil? Will it lead to better writing? Just about every other new writing instrument has been seen as a threat to literacy and a corrupter of youth.

Last night was Family Night at my kids’ elementary school. You know, that night when you visit your kid’s class with the other parents, learn about the curriculum and teacher […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] A few back-of-the-envelope calculations here (estimating conservatively when in doubt)… A. Number of students and teachers 50 million public school students+3.3 million public school […]

There was a time not so long ago that I would cart along a laptop and a Palm device, in my case a Tungsten T3, wherever I went, whether on […]

Michio Kaku and Peter Diamandis tackle the difference between the way our brains and machines compute, and how Artificial Intelligence will impact the future of the Web.

Predicting the end of the world is a rough business. Everyone knows when you’re wrong; and when you’re right, you don’t get to take a victory lap. 

For Leadership Day 2009, here are some key questions that I’d ask about the technology leadership function in any school district: n n Who is primary responsible for technology leadership in […]

Diana Senechal left the following comment over on a Wall Street Journal article about computers’ burgeoning ability to individualize student learning: While “individualized instruction” seems an unequivocal good, perhaps it […]

This eSchoolNews article discusses the recent Wall Street Journal article criticizing one-to-one laptop programs and contrasts it with ISTE’s new book highlighting successful laptop programs. Here’s the problem… The article […]

Blog Action Day is Monday: thousands of bloggers posting on environmental issues. I’m going to be posting a few thoughts on what school leaders need to know about computer recycling […]

My grandma turned 90 today. She doesn’t have a computer and probably will never see this message but I’m blogging about it anyway ‘cause I think it’s cool.

In conjunction with its fabulous annual conference, the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) is hosting its first-ever educational technology research symposium. Accepted papers will be published on CD-ROM and in […]

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A very smart statistician has realized that it is possible to sort, with upwards of 90 percent accuracy, the winning scratch tickets from the losing ones before anything is scratched off.

[This is Post 5 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]

My latest roundup of links and tools… The critics need a reboot David Wolman’s article in Wired Magazine is a quick and effective rebuttal of those who claim that technology […]

On Saturday, the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers hosted the first-ever public demonstration of Microsoft Surface, the digital interactive table with a 30-inch touch screen that might just revolutionize […]

The best-selling netbooks typically fall within the $300 to $400 range and their capabilities are increasing rapidly as manufacturers figure out how to include more features. For example, we are […]

I’m one of the lucky ones: my XO arrived in time for Christmas (thank you, Betsy!). I wish I knew to which country the other one went. For those of […]

Part 5 of Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event looked at how artificial intelligence and machine learning would affect the future of digital search — and how we understand and predict the future.