Osmo Pramod Sharma worked at Google in Sunnyvale, California and noticed when he dropped off his daughter at the company’s daycare facility, there were no tech products allowed. Sharma and his co-founder Jerome Scholler created Osmo in 2013 to create a positive and educational screen time experience for kids. Osmo’s magic lies in its proprietary […]
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India will install cameras in classrooms amid a rise of surveillance measures in Asia
Adam Berry/Getty Images India’s capital territory Delhi will install surveillance cameras in all of its classrooms after a spate of violent incidents. Several schools in Kolkata this month also adopted technology that allows parents to track their children’s whereabouts using radio frequency ID tags. Delhi’s decision comes as increased surveillance measures sweep across Asia. India’s […]
Gender neutral classrooms: Lorraine viewers FUME at new BBC show No More Boys and Girls
The breakfast show spoke to the mother of one schoolboy who had taken part in the BBC series No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? ahead of the broadcast this evening. While the headmistress of Lanesend Primary School, which took part in the social experiment, praised it, audiences watching at home […]
There’s an essential skill not being taught enough in classrooms today
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor JUNE 23, 2017 ROCHESTER, N.H. —There’s an essential skill not being taught enough in classrooms today, say a growing number of American educators. That skill is thinking. “Most teachers never really ask students to think very deeply…. Most of what is assigned and tested are things we ask students […]
How Artificial Intelligence Will Invade Classrooms
Nothing reveals as much about a society, and its future, as its high schools. Yet amid accelerating change — widening inequality, unprecedented globalization and technological advances — they’ve woefully lagged behind. There are, of course, exceptions. Follow OZY’s special series High School, Disrupted to find out about the global leaders, cutting-edge trends and big ideas […]