A radical experiment is underway to determine if tablets can take the place of teachers, especially in areas of the world where villages have no literate adults. If children can learn to read, they can read to learn. That’s the philosophy behind this experiment to find out if illiterate children can learn to read on [...]
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Infographic: Can Tablets Take the Place of Teachers?
Posted by ginac on January 24th, 2013
Posted in Electronics, Global Homeschooling, iPad, Learning, Tablets 
Tags: Learning, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, self-directed learning, tablets 
Comments OffKickstarter Campaign Brings Renewable Energy to Classrooms, Literally
Posted by ginac on December 3rd, 2012
Even when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, a new renewable energy tile quietly captures kinetic energy from footfall traffic and converts it into energy to power lights, even indoors. And that is exactly what Pavegen is doing with its Kickstarter campaign. If this campaign is fully funded, two lucky schools (one [...]
Posted in Back to School, Crowdsource, Electronics, Environmental Conservation, Science, TED Tags: Kickstarter, Pavegen, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, TED Comments OffArduSat-Your Kid’s Experiment in Space
Posted by ginac on July 2nd, 2012
Take photos of the earth and stars, measure temperatures, send your own sensor and measure what you like. In order to build and operate an open source satellite, several enterprising scientists and engineers are raising funds through Kickstarter. Once funded, students, teachers, and the general public will be able to run their experiments on the [...]
Support Lady Engineer-Inspired LEGO Set For Girls
Posted by ginac on June 2nd, 2012
If you’re among the many parents offended by the recent Lego sets marketed specifically to girls, including a nail salon and café, you’ll love this idea. Limor Fried, an accomplished women, engineer, successful entrepreneur, Wired cover girl, MIT graduate, and now Lego creator, is proposing an electronics engineering design lab Lego kit for girls that models Limor’s [...]
Posted in Back to School, Electronics, LEGO, Make, technology Tags: Adafruit, Electronics, Engineering, Girl Lego, LEGO, Limor Fried, Wired Comments OffTED Talk Inspires Young Inventor to Bypass College; Win Thiel Fellowship
Posted by ginac on May 17th, 2012
Yoonseo Kang was a member of his high school Robotics team. He thought he might like to study engineering and economics in college and his family was looking forward to his successful college career. However, according to an interview by MAKE, Yoonseo watched the Open Source Ecology’s (OSE) founder Marcin Jakubowski’s TEDTalk and decided to take [...]
Posted in Back to School, Design, Economics, Electronics Tags: alternative education, invent, make, MIT, Open source, TED, Thiel Fellowship Comments OffNew Intel Education Tablet Device Designed for Classroom Management not Learning
Posted by ginac on April 11th, 2012
According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is developing a small, ruggedized tablet device called the studybook aimed squarely at school students. Smaller and less expensive than an iPad, the device will feature cameras with applications for performing time-lapse photography and add-on lenses that turn the device into a microscope (although you can do this [...]
Posted in Electronics, Learning Methods, Teaching methods Tags: classroom management, Education, Intel, Learning, studybook, tablet device Comments OffHappy Holidays
Posted by ginac on December 25th, 2011
Happy Holidays to all of our loyal readers. We’re looking forward to another great year of sharing learning resources with you. Enjoy these past posts for ideas on extending the fun from holiday gifts, especially if those gifts include LEGO or Apple devices. LEGO Creator – Creative Building Ideas Using Existing Bricks Musical Instruments on [...]
Guest Post-Making a Lemon Battery
Posted by ginac on December 20th, 2011
There has been growing criticism that K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education in the United States is insufficiently preparing students for college and the workforce. Teachers interested in revamping their curriculum with live demonstrations of scientific phenomena may wish to consider demonstrating basic principles of physics and chemistry by making a lemon battery [...]
DIY Makers Bring Neuroscience Research to Everyone
Posted by ginac on December 2nd, 2011
Enterprising engineers and graduate students are creating low-cost devices and methods for conducting basic neuroscience research. Using iPads, apps, blue LEDs, and other off-the-shelf items from Radio Shack, products like Backyard Brains are cropping up to support the DIY biology hacking movement. Building affordable scientific instruments is perhaps the biggest hurdle to accessible research in [...]
Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Electronics, Make, Science, technology Tags: backyard brains, Biology, DANA Foundation, DIY, hacking, Makers, Neuroscience Comments OffHandy iPod touch Hack for the Electronics Geek
Posted by ginac on December 1st, 2011
This over-the-top hack for the iPod touch is both fun and useful. The iPod touch is a handy device for checking email, listening to music, and managing your calendar, but it is a handy reference device. In fact, by attaching a mini microscope and downloading the free Resistor Color-Code app, the iPod touch becomes a really geeky [...]
Posted in Electronics, technology Tags: Electronics, Hack, hacks, IPod Touch, mini microscope, resistor color-code app, resistors Comments Off
