Tag Archive: tablets

Handwriting may be better for creativity and memory

September 1, 2021 11:00 am
Published by

As the world becomes more reliant on technology, beginning as early as kindergarten and extending all the way to post-secondary school, it’s hard to escape the ubiquity of tech’s influence on one’s educational journey. This is even more pronounced as... View Article

Learning from the Los Angeles edtech failure

January 29, 2015 6:00 pm
Published by

In June 2013, the Los Angeles School Board of Education signed a $30 million iPad deal with Apple, with the intent of providing iPads to all of the students in the district.  As Weiss says, the program was “envisioned as a... View Article

Facial Expression Classifiers

October 28, 2013 6:00 pm
Published by

An MIT Technology Review article by David Talbot concerned facial expression recognition software, including Affectiva’s Affdex software (http://www.affectiva.com/). The article briefly concerns the application of such technology for education. Two of these studies were from UCSD researchers who founded another facial expression... View Article