education

End of an Era: Google’s Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving

Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 7:01 am PT

Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).

A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 7 at 5:40 pm PT

Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.

No More Pencils, No More Books

Can’t wait for high school calculus iBooks where kids have to triangulate Kindle sales with rubbish percentage data

– Dan Frommer, via Twitter

Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19 at 8:45 am PT

It’s like the old “make it up on volume” joke. Except this time it might work, if students and school districts play along.

Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Join Apple in iPad Textbook Effort

John Paczkowski in Media on January 19 at 7:58 am PT

The textbook triumvirate is onboard for Apple’s new iBooks textbook store.

Apple Unveils iPad Textbook Plan

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19 at 6:25 am PT

At a special event in New York City, Apple rolls out a new textbook initiative and the partnerships to support it.

A Day Before Apple’s Education Event, Chegg Points Out That Digital Textbooks Are Already Here

Peter Kafka in Media on January 18 at 4:30 am PT

A new e-textbook reader from one of many players that’s already chasing the nascent market.

Google Spends for New Consumer Education Campaign

Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 17 at 2:33 pm PT

Google today rolled out a new effort designed to educate consumers on technology terms like “cookies” and “IP addresses” and explain a few things about privacy online.

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Piazza Raises $6M for College Class Discussion Platform

Liz Gannes in Social on January 6 at 6:00 am PT

Piazza, a Q&A service for discussions of college coursework with the approval and participation of instructors, has raised $6 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and including Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures. The company said it has 100,000 users — many of them in computer science and math classes — and that its average daily login lasts four hours.

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Raspberry Pi, a Credit-Card-Sized Computer, Set to Launch

Lauren Goode in News on December 28, 2011 at 8:33 am PT

The Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer that plugs directly into your TV via an HDMI input, is launching next month, following five years of research and development. Developed in the U.K. by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the $35 version of the device runs Linux, has a 700MHZ ARM 11 processor and 256MB of RAM, and features the first-person multiplayer video game Quake 3 Arena; the $25 version has similar specs, but with 128MB of RAM. Videogame veteran David Braben, the brains behind the Pi, has been quoted as saying he originally created the Pi for educational use.