The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years

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What’s been the single biggest innovation in education?

Don’t worry if you come up blank. You’re supposed to. The question is a gambit used by Anant Agarwal, the computer scientist named this year to head edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the web, free, to anyone who wants one. His point: It’s rare to see major technological advances in how people learn.

Agarwal believes that education is about to change dramatically. The reason is the power of the web and its associated data-crunching technologies. Thanks to these changes, it’s now possible to stream video classes with sophisticated interactive elements, and researchers can scoop up student data that could help them make teaching more effective. The technology is powerful, fairly cheap and global in its reach. EdX has said it hopes to teach a billion students.

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Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Pictures

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Some pictures from Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria - Nov 5-6, 2012. All pics shot with my iPhone.

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Education Spending

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There’s a lot of discussion out there about how students from the US can ‘compete’ with students abroad, particularly students from China and India. Which group does better on test scores? Which group spends more time in class and studying? While all of that may or may not equate to producing the most successful or competitive students in the world economy, those are two of the major factors that most people consider when assessing student competitiveness. And where does education spending fit into the picture?

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Special Education Doctoral Programs

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Find out about special education doctoral programs online and how they can prepare you for a most rewarding career. This page provides more detail about the programs and where you can take them.

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Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver Wins in 50 States

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Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and squeaked a victory in the popular vote.

But here is the absolute, undoubted winner of this election: Nate Silver and big data.

The Fivethirtyeight.com analyst, despite being pilloried by the pundits, outdid even his 2008 prediction. In that year, his mathematical model correctly called 49 out of 50 states, missing only Indiana (which went to Obama by 0.1%.)

This year, according to all projections, Silver’s model has correctly predicted 50 out of 50 states. A last-minute flip for Florida, which finally went blue in Silver’s prediction on Monday night, helped him to a perfect game.

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Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week

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We’ve got quite the variety for you this week: Apps to help settle your kids down for bed and introduce them to the basic steps of cartoon animation. Plus, one particularly fun app that lets them (digitally) smash their food.

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Better Management of Vascular Disease May Reduce Alzheimer’s

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Emerging research suggests interventions to address pathological, biochemical, and physiological processes may delay or reverse Alzheimer’s disease.

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Health Information Technology Degree Programs

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Find out how health information technology degree programs are changing patient care. Find schools where you can take these programs, the career prospects, and more …

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Business Programs

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Campus and online business programs open up a world of business employment opportunities. Find out more about the programs and how to locate them, and more …

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World's Youngest VC-Funded Entrepreneur?

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He was just 15 when he landed his first chunk of change from VCs. Now this high-schooler counts Ashton Kutcher, Yoko Ono, and Mark Pincus as backers.

“News on mobile is fundamentally broken,” D’Alosio explains. “It’s not the personalization element that needs to change—it’s the content. A lot of start-ups are trying to solve personalization, but this is a step beyond that. People are just fundamentally not interacting with the content itself, that’s the issue. We’ve tried to algorithmically come up with a solution.”

D’Alosio has used the $1 million to hire “some serious scientists” to improve on his original algorithm.

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