• In Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech's engineering college is requiring all 1,400 incoming freshmen to purchase tablet PCs, and the college is recommending that they buy from Fujitsu. In 1984, the ...

Last month Adi Robertson wrote an award-worthy mini history of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) fiasco, which many of us have long forgotten about. Near the end, this quote stuck out: "What the project ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Do you remember how temperamental computers used to be? When they would crash for no reason, and you had to click ...

Research in Tasmania has found primary school pupils who use computers in the classroom have better literacy and numeracy skills than the national benchmarks. The University of Tasmania surveyed 214 ...

New study results by a research team at the University of Cologne show that future teachers increasingly want to use computer games in the classroom. The study identifies particularly relevant aspects ...

The “computers in the classroom” revolution stalled in the 1990s but is back on course, according to an Arizona Republic article. About 80 computer companies, including Apple, are exhibiting their ...

Play has always been central to growing up, – whether it’s in the street or on a playing field – or in the structured formality of teachers’ quizzes. But while it’s tempting to see the gamification of ...

Teachers who use Google Classroom as their primary ed-tech platform now have the option to integrate other digital learning resources into the Classroom experience. ZDNet spoke with Google Classroom's ...

When it comes to improving education, many have pointed to the importance of technology in the classroom. Using computers is supposed to make students more excited to learn, enable them to absorb ...