Computers in School

A schism is emerging in the scientific enterprise. On the one side is the human mind, the source of every story, theory and explanation that our species holds dear. On the other stand the machines, whose algorithms possess astonishing predictive power but whose inner workings remain radically opaque to human…

“His swath was probably broader than anyone who ever lived,” said mathematician Neil Sloane, a collaborator with Mr. Conway and the founder of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. “I’ve worked with a lot of people, and he was the fastest at solving a problem and would pursue a topic…

As the government began to ease restrictions on the economy put in place during the coronavirus pandemic, the Education Ministry on Sunday became the target of a growing storm of parental frustration and anger over its remote learning program and the fact that teachers have been unwilling to give up…

When anyone sees Linux OS Deepin for the first time, their initial reaction is always the same: “That looks gorgeous!” Indeed, Deepin is a looker. Stunning, slick and arguably the best looking desktop environment in existence. So why isn’t it my daily driver? With this week’s launch of the brand…

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.The first time I noticed the room was in the Numa Numa video of 2004, circulated pre-YouTube, in which a New Jersey man named Gary Brolsma danced in his chair to a Moldovan pop song called “Dragostea din tei.”The video is blurry; it’s from…

Zoom, a videoconferencing service created for corporate webinars and meetings, has grown into something more amid the coronavirus outbreak. With the number of daily users exploding from 10 million to 200 million from December to March, it has become a forum for nearly every kind of social function, including happy…

My relationship with audiobooks began when I was a little girl haunted by nightmares and terrified to fall asleep. After trying just about everything else, my mom realized that if she told me a story, I would eventually fall peacefully asleep. To make things easier, she set up a tape…

Lamar Elementary School principal Erin Honeycutt sets up a Zoom class for first- through fifth-graders in Meridian, Miss., in March.  (Paula Merritt/AP)Zoom, a videoconferencing service created for corporate webinars and meetings, has grown into something more amid the coronavirus outbreak.With the number of daily users exploding from 10 million to…

The Washington Post reports that education leaders are worried that students are falling behind due to school closures and extraordinary measures must be taken so they can “catch up.” Of course, there is good reason to worry about children who have experienced months without formal schooling. Many, however, do have…

— By Nuurrianti Jalli Governments and companies across the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with cancellations of public events and closures of offices, restaurants, museums, schools and universities to avoid masses from gathering as the highly contagious pneumonia-like disease can spread from one person to another. As of…