Last week we talked about the role the iPad can play in helping college students learn. What about the Kindle? Written off upon the introduction of the iPad, sales of Amazon’s reading device sales have resurrected and Amazon now sells more Kindle books than it does hardcover, even though they’ve been selling hardcover books for [...]

Will the iPad help college students learn? That’s the question many colleges will be trying to answer this year as they pilot its use on their campuses. Oklahoma State, Duke, and Northwest Kansas Technical College are among many schools carrying out tests. In fact, Northwest Kansas is giving iPads to the entire undergraduate population of [...]

At a time when new technologies are emerging at an eye-popping rate (the iPad and the Phone 4.0 to name two), it can be hard to understand and keep track of the relevance, and value they deliver.  And that also means being able to look beyond the headlines, to examine more closely the substance, and [...]

A recent story from Network World entitled, “Why Computer science students cheat.” Has itself become a story as it generated a firestorm of commentary in the educational blogosphere. The original story talked about how first-year computer science students are the most likely students to be caught cheating. The growing popularity and size of introductory computer-science [...]

The technologies companies and institutions rely on to get work done and make their employees productive become “mainstreamed” by consumers, at home, with their friends, in social circumstances.  And adoption by corporations substantially lags these consumers. This is a pretty incredible reversal that’s occurred over the past decade or so.  Almost un-noticed by most of [...]

As we have written here before, change is scary.  It provokes a desire to hold on to the here and now, the stable and secure.  The problem with big significant change is that there’s just is no stable and secure to hold on to. It’s like trying to hold back the tide.  Just look at [...]

Computers and Cheating This week has been a busy week for news about the role of computers and the internet in education.  For example, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article on ways computers are being used by students to short cut their learning. There’s no doubt that students are using computers to [...]

There’s been increased media attention lately regarding banning laptops during lectures, highlighting a messy, messy confluence of technology and changing consumer (student) behavior. The argument made by some professors is pretty simple. A professor at the Georgetown law school boils it down like this, “This is like putting on every student’s desk, when you walk [...]