Category Archives: Futures

14% of the US Population Struggle with Reading & Writing

From the Christian Science Monitor, an article worth reading by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo. "About 30 million people – 14 percent of the US population 16 and older – have trouble with basic reading and writing. Correlating factors that were explored in a new government report include poverty, ethnicity, native language background, and disabilities.... Of these ...

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Kindle DX at Case Western Reserve

"Case Western Reserve University students will be among the first in the nation to use textbooks on the new Kindle electronic reader next fall, using a large-screen version of the device to be unveiled today in New York. Students in the chemistry, computer science and freshman seminar classes using the handheld Kindle next ...

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Blackboard & Wimba Collaboration

"Leading educational technology vendor Blackboard Inc. unveiled its first integrated instant-messaging service April 2 for students and professors who rely on class web portals for lectures, assignments, exams, and grades." On April 2, 2009, Blackboard finally released its long-awaited IM service, powered by Wimba.  At first, this was going to be powered by Bantu (2001), ...

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Detroit’s Abandoned Schools: Pictures of Plight

Below is a link to the work of James D. Griffioen. He has spent the last year of his life documenting what has happened to the city of Detroit. Click Here to view his incredible photography.

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