by Leroy Hurt | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Boing Boing and The Washington Post: How federal and local investigators sifted through that ocean of evidence and focused their search on two immigrant brothers is a story of advanced technology and old-fashioned citizen cooperation. It is an object lesson in how...
by Leroy Hurt | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via American Interest: EdX is making this system available for free online to all schools that want it, and four states are already using a similar program in public high schools. Some like the new technology because it can provide students with instant feedback when...
by Leroy Hurt | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: But why build a haiku bot? “A lot of the projects we work on here are these incredibly big heaves, which are very, very gratifying,” said Mainland. “But you crave these smaller projects, which are just as valuable.” Similarly, projects like the...
by Leroy Hurt | Apr 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via New Republic: In one form or another, the online future is already here. But unless we are uncommonly wise about how we use this new power, we will find ourselves saying, as Emerson’s friend Henry David Thoreau said about an earlier technological revolution, “We...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Free Technology for Teachers: Russel Tarr is on a roll this month. Earlier this month he released a great tool for creating fake text message exchanges between historical and literary characters. This week he released another tool that I think teachers will like....
