http://www.mail.com/subjects/278272-educational-technology.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/278272-educational-technology.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2098942-we-wunderkinds-drop-high-school.html NEW YORK (AP) — It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Which raises the question: When is i... Tue, 21 May 2013 18:13:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2098942-we-wunderkinds-drop-high-school.html 2013-05-21T18:13:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2067094-to-start-tests-digitally.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Goodbye, No. 2 pencils. Hello, iPads. Starting as early as spring 2015, the ACT college admissions exam will go digital, reflecting students' tech savvy and the demand for quicker results. The tests will still have the familiar multiple-choice options for college hopefuls but they will also expand to include interactive portions, such as... Mon, 06 May 2013 21:33:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2067094-to-start-tests-digitally.html 2013-05-06T21:33:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2057066-computer-glitches-derail-school-tests-4.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers' pay because of technical problems involving the test administrators' computer systems. Thousands of students in Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota and Oklahoma have been kicked offline while taking tests in re... Thu, 02 May 2013 00:49:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2057066-computer-glitches-derail-school-tests-4.html 2013-05-02T00:49:26Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2015194-coding-boot-camps-promise-to-launch-tech-careers.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer science. Instead, he quit his job and spent his savings to enroll at Dev Bootcamp, a new San Francisco school that teaches students how to write software in nine weeks. The $11,000 gamble pa... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:12:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2015194-coding-boot-camps-promise-to-launch-tech-careers.html 2013-04-13T00:12:26Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954952-maine-school-laptop-contract-to-open-to.html PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The only state to provide laptops to public school students statewide said Thursday the contract it's negotiating for new devices can be used by other states if they're interested in following suit. Maine has zeroed in on five different laptops and tablets as it prepares to replace more than 35,000 Apple laptops in middle schools an... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:36:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954952-maine-school-laptop-contract-to-open-to.html 2013-03-14T18:36:23Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1950620-villanovas-vatican-interns-view-history.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation. The Villanova University junior thought she'd spend her first day filling out paperwork and undergoing orientation. Instead, she ran over to the Vatican Press Office to attend ... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:29:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1950620-villanovas-vatican-interns-view-history.html 2013-03-13T20:29:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he's already learned the day's lesson — he watched it on a short online video prepared by his teacher for homework. So without a lecture to listen to, he and his classmates at Segerstrom Fundamental High School spend class time doing practice problems in small groups, taking quizz... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html 2013-01-27T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1810764-schmidt-joins-elite-to-glimpse-net-nkorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google chairman Eric Schmidt's glimpse of the Web being used at a top university in Pyongyang makes him part of a tiny elite that has seen the Internet in North Korea. His four day visit to the North was a golden propaganda opportunity for North Korean officials striving to give one of the world's most closed societies a modern, ... 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