Geek Out

This Teen Spent Two Years In Juvie For Making Up Bomb Threats

Ashton Lundeby, now 18, just spent the past 22 months in juvie. Why? Because he once acted as a gun, er, phone for hire. Kids would pay him and he would call their schools saying a bomb was planted there.


November 29, 2010
Science

Blue Lighting Wakes Schoolkids Up

I tell you what, I could do with some of this “blue lighting” each morning when I start work at 7.30. Being tested in a British school, Philips’ blue-tinted light wakes kids up and makes them perform better.


November 28, 2010
Geek Out

A Teacher Tried To Ban Pencils And Pens In School

Wendy Scott, a teacher of at North Brookfield Elementary School in Massachusetts, tried to ban pencils and pens in her classroom. It’s completely ridiculous because you sorta need them to do schoolwork and because it’s just a freaking pencil and pen.


November 16, 2010
Online

Can Twitter Make You Smarter?

Can using Twitter make you smarter? A new semester-long study found that university students who used Twitter for educational purposes earned GPAs a half-point higher than a non-tweeting control group.


November 2, 2010
Computing

Watch The World’s Coolest Maths Teacher Troubleshoot Haunted PC

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This man is unarguably the greatest maths teacher in the history of maths teachers. Or at least the greatest at pulling off large-scale video projector pranks that leave you laughing, stunned and a little bit awed.


October 26, 2010
Online

Somewhere In Ohio, The Internet Is Ruining Snow Days

The best part about growing up in Michigan, besides my pet wolverine, was the abundance of snow days. But a school district in Ohio is threatening to destroy the sacred snow day by making kids learn. On the internet.


October 22, 2010
Geek Out

Google Employees Share Their Stories: ‘It Gets Better’

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Being a kid can be tough. Even more so for gay and transgender kids. But take it from these Google employees: It gets better. Here they share their inspiring stories about how there’s life after adolescence.


October 19, 2010
Online

Creepy Teachers Using Facebook For Creepy Things

“This is sexy” is not a comment a teacher should post on a student’s Facebook photo. But that’s what Chadwin Reynolds allegedly wrote on a photo posted by one of a half dozen female students he friended on Facebook.


September 2, 2010
Computing

Private School Hands Out 105 iPads To Pupils

Scotland’s Cedars School of Excellence is running a bold tech experiment at the moment, teaching all of its 105 pupils using nothing but Apple’s iPad for taking notes and conducting lessons.


August 28, 2010
Gadgets

What Is That Police Box Doing On Top Of A Building At MIT?

What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look…