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From the press release: Wolfram Offers Next Innovation in Education Technology with Wolfram Education Portal Champaign, Illinois–January 18, 2012–Wolfram today announced the launch of the Wolfram Education Portal, providing teachers and students alike with a new way to integrate technology into learning. The Wolfram Education Portal, available at education.wolfram.com, comes equipped with dynamic teaching tools [...]

In “Beyond Pink and Blue” on the blog site for The Nation magazine, author Dana Goldstein writes about children and gender norms. She quoted me for a part of the article about tinkering, and how that kind of hands on learning helps students grasp scientific concepts. Sylvia Martinez, an expert on educational technology, has written [...]

I’m heading to London this week to take part in the BETT 2012 conference in London. This is the largest educational technology conference in the world and I’ve been wanting to check it out for years! I’m presenting a session on Friday – Tinkering: A New Model of ICT and STEM Learning Yes, I know [...]

It’s not the headline that’s going to make the national press. Ho hum, young people aren’t perverts or helpless victims. But here’s another slice of non-sensationalistic reality about what parents and teachers SHOULDN’T flip out about… From the press release - “A new study from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center [...]

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