• In Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech's engineering college is requiring all 1,400 incoming freshmen to purchase tablet PCs, and the college is recommending that they buy from Fujitsu. In 1984, the ...

Some students at a Winnipeg high school are now being required to use laptop computers in the classroom, but not all parents are sold on the idea. Dakota Collegiate is expanding a pilot project aimed ...

Research in Tasmania has found primary school pupils who use computers in the classroom have better literacy and numeracy skills than the national benchmarks. The University of Tasmania surveyed 214 ...

It’s 2024! Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and ...

A third grade student sits at a computer working while wearing headphones. One measure of how much more prevalent computers are in schools is the way that teachers and students have been surveyed ...

More than a decade ago, I attended a workshop about technology tools in schools. I listened, already converted, as speakers discussed how new technology would transform classrooms. One memorable ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Do you remember how temperamental computers used to be? When they would crash for no reason, and you had to click ...

Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will ...

Coding in the Classroom is an outreach initiative in which members of the UT Computer Science community teach coding in local ...

We should ban the use of computers and cell phones in classrooms. I know that is a radical statement and one that will generate controversy. But what else can we do? Let me be clear that I love ...