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• Human remote control may spell end for teachers

  Teachers and textbooks beware -- your future could be under threat from a quickly developing and very smart technology. At the center of this technology is a man who recently turned his face into a remote control - Ph.D. student Jacob Whitehill, of the Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:18 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, Artificial intelligence, Education, teachers, AI

• UC Davis program allows high school students to study biotechnology

  Imagine learning how to navigate a virtual lab to splice a gene and extract DNA, then putting these newly acquired skills to real life use in a high school classroom equipped with top-notch lab equipment. Thanks to the UC Davis Partnership for Plant Genomics Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:48 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, Education, UC-Davis

• Buck Institute opens stem cell research training lab

  Mark Bell, a new graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, was one of 12 students learning how to culture human embryonic stem cells Wednesday in a gleaming new research laboratory at the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato. Bell said he wants Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:31 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Stem cells, Education, Buck Institute for Age Research

• Penn Hosts Science-Minded Middle School Girls at Camp GEMS: Girls in Engineering, Math and Science

  GEMS is a week-long, annual summer camp held on the Penn campus and organized by Penn's Advancing Women in Engineering Program, which encourages increased participation in the sciences by middle-school-aged girls. The camp is hands-on and includes Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:28 AM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: Education, Science, GEMS, girls camp

• Students who use 'clickers' score better on physics tests

  Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Ohio State University students who used the devices to answer multiple-choice questions during physics lectures earned Read More...
  Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:55 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Physics, Education

• First Masters Program in Anti-Aging Medicine

  An Indonesian university has won the accolade of being the first in the world to offer a Masters program in anti-aging medicine. According to Professor Wimpie Pangkahila, chairman of the program at the Udayana University in Bali, "The anti-aging Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 6:17 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Education, anti-aging

• Video Games Can Make Us Creative If Spark Is Right

  Video games that energize players and induce a positive mood could also enhance creativity, according to media researchers. However, the study also finds that players who were not highly energized and had a negative mood, registered the highest creativity. Read More...
  Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:43 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Education, video games

• How to go to M.I.T. for free

  By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:32 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Education

• UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video

  The University of California, Berkeley, announced it is delivering more than 250 hours of educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge through Google Video... Read more
  Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 12:45 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Google, Education, Online video

• Colleges see the future in technology

  Cutting-edge videogame and artificial intelligence technology are on the way to provide more individualized instruction. Some of the most futuristic devices could even monitor students' brainwaves to keep track of how they're learning.... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:39 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Education