Subscribe:
RSS

Education

SmartPlanet stories related to the institutions, technologies and methods by which we expose individuals to information.

  • Kids get educated on 'green' golf

    Kids get educated on 'green' golf

    Gary Ingram, the golf course superintendent at Oakland Metropolitan is teaching kids about what it means to be better environmental citizens through their program, the Oakland Turf Grass Initiative.

    January 24, 2012 8:05am

  • NASA building R&D campus for tech start-ups

    NASA building R&D campus for tech start-ups

    NASA Ames Research Park Director Michael Marlaire discusses plan to build a new research and development facility at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley. Marlaire says the space agency already has more...

    8 | February 7, 2011 3:08pm

  • Project FROG's plan to improve student performance with new hi-tech buildings

    Project FROG's plan to improve student performance with new hi-tech buildings

    Can student performance improve with the environment? Studies have shown that the educational environment can enable students to perform up to two grades better. Mark Miller, founder of Project...

    5 | January 11, 2010 4:49pm

  • Interactive TV builds literacy skills among low-income kids

    Interactive TV builds literacy skills among low-income kids

    Carlin Llorente, a researcher at SRI International discusses recent findings that shows low-income pre-school kids benefiting from a curriculum that includes public media content inside the...

    3 | November 12, 2009 9:50am

  • Getting green consumers to take action

    Getting green consumers to take action

    At the Green: Net '09 conference in San Francisco, Erin Carlson, director of Yahoo for Good, breaks down the demographics of green-minded consumers who visit the Web site. She says most people...

    1 | March 26, 2009 8:33am

  • Greening IT beyond the data center

    Greening IT beyond the data center

    At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., on June 6, Christopher Mines, senior vice president of Forrester Research, talks about strategies managers can use to green IT in areas...

    1 | June 23, 2008 8:04am

  • Techie DIY projects creating a movement

    Techie DIY projects creating a movement

    Laser cutting, machine sewing, wood-working -- they're some of the skills used to build today's latest tech product. And more and more entrepreneurs are getting hands-on training to make their...

    1 | April 26, 2012 3:53pm

  • Kids get educated on 'green' golf

    Kids get educated on 'green' golf

    Gary Ingram, the golf course superintendent at Oakland Metropolitan is teaching kids about what it means to be better environmental citizens through their program, the Oakland Turf Grass Initiative.

    January 24, 2012 8:05am

  • Can bees be trained to prevent plant disease?

    Can bees be trained to prevent plant disease?

    Dr. Andrew Sutherland, a researcher with the UC Davis Plant Pathology Department is training honey bees to detect plant disease in agricultural crops. Bees have excellent chemosensors on their...

    3 | May 25, 2010 10:07am

  • Project FROG's plan to improve student performance with new hi-tech buildings

    Project FROG's plan to improve student performance with new hi-tech buildings

    Can student performance improve with the environment? Studies have shown that the educational environment can enable students to perform up to two grades better. Mark Miller, founder of Project...

    5 | January 11, 2010 4:49pm