Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
We had a chance to swing by the Leap Motion booth at SXSXEdu. You may be asking, what is the company doing at an education conference? Well, as the rep expanded on in the below video, there are a ton of educational uses for the device. Firstly, there is a massive Leap Motion developer community. This community has already built a huge number of applications that focus on science, history, math, among other subjects. Further, as there is a robust SDK for the controller that supports many different languages, computer science instructors can easily work Leap into their curriculum
High school squad goes mobile route with app built at appsbar.com EH Basketball has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day award for showcasing how clubs, teams, and organizations are utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar to engage in mobile outreach. The EH Basketball app serves as the mobile platform for the East Hamilton, TN [...]
According to gamepur.com a release date for Drive Club may have leaked out on Twitter. Drive Club, an exclusive PS4 title, was supposed to be a launch title. however after failing to be ready for the US and then the European release date, the game then missed Japan's PS4 launch a little over a week [...]
Nintendo is set to release the 8th installment of their wildly successful game, Mario Kart, on May 30th, 2014. In advance of the release of Mario Kart 8, Nintendo and Pennzoil will be bringing "Mario Kart Reimagined," to Palmer Convention Center.
Nearly two years ago the American Federation Of Teachers partnered with Britain's TEC Connect to start a free online community for teachers. Through ShareMyLesson teachers can share lesson plans, best practices and great ideas with each other along with the materials that go with those great ideas. The hope is that teachers from across both [...]
Yesterday, during the SXSWEdu expo, we had a chance to speak SparkFun Electronics, a company based out of Boulder Colorado. SparkFun is an open-source hardware company, meaning that they open source the designs and components for all of their hundreds of products. These products range from accelerometers to full robotics kits to cellular modules and [...]
Nolan Bushnell. the man behind the original Atari and the first interactive kids restaurant concept, Chuck E Cheese, took to the main stage at SXSWedu on Monday to talk about the project he's been working on over the last two years, Brain Rush. Bushnell is forging his two loves, video games and kids and making [...]
Allen Iverson fans everywhere are rejoicing now as the team at Take Two Interactive have finally added the 76ers legendary shooting guard Allen Iverson to the game. Although there may be some confusion as to when Iverson actually retired from the NBA one things for certain and that is, judging by message boards and other [...]
Samsung didn't waste anytime in Austin this year as SXSW officially kicked off with SXSWedu. The Techfaster team is on the ground in Austin for the next 15 days bringing you SXSW faster. 15 public schools from across the country, that were chosen as finalists in the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow contest squared off to [...]
