Tag Archives: education

Xbox Kinect Applications To Health And Medicine

Chris Niehaus (Washington, DC) — It’s not quite the technology from Minority Report, but in some ways it’s even better (no gloves!): Microsoft recently launched a new entertainment product named Kinect for the popular Xbox 360 gaming platform. The launch involved the usual amount of fanfare you might expect, including a massive Times Square event ... Read more »

Still Waiting For Superman? Innovation Meets Education Outside The Classroom, Too

Cameron Evans (Irving, TX) — Waiting for Superman continues to get a lot of buzz. A documentary about failures in the American educational system told through the lives of a number of individual students, it has people questioning a host of inter-related issues. At the same time, controversial local education reformers like Washington, DC’s Michelle ... Read more »