Could a pencil and paper turn out to be a better workout for your brain than the new brain training games? According to a recent scientific study: Yes.
The results of the study show that 10-year-olds playing the Nintendo Brain Training (or Brain Age) game showed no improvement in memory compared with children working through brain [...]
Birds do it, bees do it, and now even educated geeks do it.
And what about you? Desperate for the key that will unlock the secrets of writing the perfect text message that will be sure to attract The One? Now you can learn to flirt in cyberspace on every digital medium you can imagine. But [...]
From zero to 50 million in under two years, mini-notebook computers, “netbooks”, are taking over. Netbooks rely on cloud computing—applications that you access online instead of loading onto your computer hard drive. And so should you.
Cloud computing frees you from ever having to worry about storage space again. Google docs, online photo editing, online music, [...]
What are you doing, drowning in a sea of information? A perfect storm of networks, websites and email, the pictures and documents you download from them, videos and friends lists, a deluge of material floods into our personal computers each day. Organizing it all is more than a major challenge, but what can you do, [...]
Are rules at your school making you crazy? Compared with some schools, maybe you don’t have it so bad. A recent survey came up with 81 dumb schools rules, and here they are:
1. No wearing chains on pants. I feel bad for the goths, well kinda. The reason this rule was made is someone got [...]
A Canadian city is piloting a program to help keep vulnerable teens safe from gang activity.
The Surrey Wraparound Project combines efforts of The City of Surrey, BC, with members
of the RCMP, the BC Integrated Gang Task Force, Public Safety Canada, and
community service organizations. The team will identify youth who are at risk of joining
gangs and [...]
Students returning from a two-week break were aghast to discover cameras had been installed in their school toilets.
School authorities were caught with their pants down and were forced to remove the CCTV cameras they had installed in the students’ toilets. Steve Baker, principal of the 1400-student school said, “Someone made an error.”
Furious pupils and parents [...]
Drugs and weapons in our public schools have always been a source of great concern. To address that concern, the Ohio state legislature passed a law in 1998 describing the circumstances under which a student’s locker can be searched by the school principal. Under this law, the principal of a public school was given authority [...]
How much stuff can you keep in your school locker anyway?
Oversize textbooks, rolling backpacks, sub-zero mountaineering parkas: the gear students need to get through school today keeps growing more and getting bigger.
But up until now, high school lockers are one thing that hasn’t changed much. Bulky textbooks require bulky backpacks, some of which now require [...]
Are digital picture frames harmful to your electronic health? There are growing concerns that they are. Elinor Mills points to growing evidence that some of these plug and play devices imported from China contain a virus. She said in a post for cnet news that “Before Christmas, Samsung and Amazon issued alerts warning customers [...]