Education

Big-box retailer doesn’t just want to be known as the place where you get the cheapest gear — lately it’s been highlighting technology innovation and innovators in its ads and messaging. To that end, the company is launching a contest aimed at finding the next big thing, and it’s asking college kids to compete for Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120716_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Is the Internet making us crazy? A recent article in Newsweek Magazine asks that very question and finds that increasingly, experts think it might be.  Internet Addiction is at term you may have heard before, and next year for the first time, it will be included in Continue Reading →

Thanks to the growing popularity of food and drink-related apps, Apple is adding a dedicated section for the category to its App Store. “Food & Drink” joins other app categories such as education, entertainment and finance as a part of an effort to help Apple device users find programs based on their area of interest. Continue Reading →

What’s in a meme? The Urban Dictionary has a nice definition: “an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media).”  In 1976, Richard Dawkins created the Continue Reading →

Three years ago, the word “gamification” would have turned up zero Google results. Today, that same search yields 13 million entries. Clearly, the idea of using game thinking and mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems is gaining appeal. Tech companies like Oracle and Salesforce have made sizable gamification acquisitions, while social infrastructure start-ups like Gigya ($15.3 Continue Reading →

The idea that Internet is about to do to college what it’s done to journalism and entertainment seems to be coming dangerously close to conventional wisdom in certain elite circles. Here’s blogger/economist Tyler Cowen yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Look at the music industry. It’s been completely overturned by the Internet. My vision of Continue Reading →

Peru’s distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world’s most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years into the program, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child Continue Reading →

The standardized tests administered by the states at the end of the school year typically have an essay-writing component, requiring the hiring of humans to grade them one by one. This spring, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation sponsored a competition to see how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards Continue Reading →

Originally posted at Meng Online. This is the final post of a MENG Blend trilogy presenting easy changes that you can quickly make to improve your resume.  Most were presented in the MENGinar “How to Improve Your Resume in 60 Minutes,” available free to MENG members.  The first two posts in the trilogy were:  “Seven Continue Reading →

On the heels of the highly anticipated Facebook initial public offering, tech biggie Microsoft made a hush-hush entrance into the social networking arena, unleashing its So.cl experiment from beta-testing.The social network, known as So.cl (pronounced “social”), which we began hearing about in December, is currently only available to college students. Read the full story at Continue Reading →