A brief MASSCue Reflection

by: Hannah Lienhard MassCUE was personally the first major conference I had been to. Not that it was particularly large, it was merely the first conference I had been to that was almost completely vendor oriented. At BPSCON 2012, we were gearing up for the coming school year by nipping off problems at the bud,…

Importance of Passwords

Everyone in the world has a password whether it is to log in to facebook or to unlock your Iphone. The only thing that is stopping you from identity thieves and hackers is a word or a sequence of numbers. There are 72 options for a one character password, the equation for finding the possibilities of…

Google Car Drives Itself

The Google driverless car is truly the next step in automobile technology, taking cars and literally eliminating the need for drivers. When Google created one of their initial prototypes, Stanley, it won first place in the DARPA Grand Challenge of 2005, receiving $2 million as the grand prize. The SUV was loaded with large sensors,…

How Student Help Desks Support Mobile Devices

Originally posted in Center for Digital Education by Tanya Roscorla on October 18, 2012 High schools are creating student-run help desks to deal with larger numbers of mobile devices. A thousand miles apart, Niles West High School in Skokie, Ill., and Burlington High School in Massachusetts each have student teams handle problems with mobile devices.…