It sounds like iPads-at-school isn't ready for prime time yet, but Fraser Speirs, a school tech director by day and Mac software developer by night, has successfully launched a program at his private school in Scotland and chronicled his experience here. Speirs is pioneering an iPads program at Cedars of School of Excellence, a private K-12 school in Greenock, Scotland (about 26 miles west of … [Read more...] about iPads at school
Archives for August 2010
Back-to-school shopping on cellphones
Retailers like JCPenney, Sears, and Kmart hook us by suggesting we send them a text for special sales and discounts, the Washington Post reports. But while "Sears and Kmart promoted a mobile app that allows shoppers to order merchandise and have it shipped to a nearby store [and] American Eagle gave away free smartphones to anyone who tried on jeans ... many retailers are still waiting to see … [Read more...] about Back-to-school shopping on cellphones
AOL’s two new, easy-to-use safety tools
Not many Internet companies know more about parental controls than AOL, which has been providing a range of them longer than I've been writing about youth and tech (since '97!). So I was interested to hear that AOL was releasing two very Web 2.0 tools, one free, the other $9.99/month. First the free one: 1. Safety Toolbar This light little software app, which AOL says takes about a minute to … [Read more...] about AOL’s two new, easy-to-use safety tools
Media-loaded brain ‘breaks’: Reality check
Sociality- or media-loaded, digitally enhanced intervals in lines, on the bus, at the gym may not actually be brain breaks after all, and in fact may be depriving us (and our kids) of the kind of down time we and our brains really need. Technology like smart phones, iPods, and Kindles "makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive," the New York Times reports. "But … [Read more...] about Media-loaded brain ‘breaks’: Reality check
Facts for parents about ‘Facebook child porn ring’
You may have heard a news story about a "Facebook child-abuse images ring" that has been reported mostly in Australia over the past eight months. It made headlines again today because the ringleader, a 45-year-old registered sex offender in the UK named Ian Green, confessed to 24 charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children" and "has been jailed for four years," the … [Read more...] about Facts for parents about ‘Facebook child porn ring’