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The Coolest Back To School Tech 2021
It’s been a wild year, with COVID, lockdowns and much more making the summer holidays less relaxing than they used to be. However, the summer holiday’s are coming to an end, or if you live in the North of England like I do, looking at the weather forecast, summer hasn’t…
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Nearly Half of UK Parents Think Schools Should Ban Phones
It’s hardly any secret that the use of smartphones by pupils at schools is a highly contentious subject. While you might have difficulty getting the kids to agree, many parents (and teachers) think that not only are they an unnecessary distraction, but can also lead to other problems. These include…
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Schools Ban Microsoft Office 365 Over Privacy Concerns
The launch of Office 365 has proven to be very popular with both individuals and organisations. Largely because it offers a means of having access to Office software while having all of your documents and data stored via a cloud server. You could, in theory, start writing a letter from…
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Wi-Fi Auto-Login Helped Identify Hate Crime Vandalism Suspects
Wi-Fi as a technology in general has brought on unprecedented levels of convenience to the world. It has even helped to identify suspects in a recent hate crime vandalism case in the US. On the evening of May 23rd last year, four masked suspects were caught on camera spray painting…
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Microsoft Partner With Kano To Release a PC DIY Kit for Kids
Microsoft Partner To Release Kano PC I’m pretty sure that the way computers are taught in schools today is very different from when I was a lad. Hell, my middle school had 1 singular computer that (if we were lucky) you got to touch more than once in a year.…
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Chinese Schoolgirl Uses Robot To Write Out Her Homework
Chinese Schoolgirl Cheats Homework With Robot Writer It’s been a long time now since I had to do any homework, but I do still remember the tedium of getting home on a Friday night and having a small mountain to get done before the following Monday. One Chinese schoolgirl, however,…
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Chinese Schools Reportedly Implimenting ‘Smart Uniforms’
Smart Uniforms With many of us returning to work following the rather pleasant Christmas/New Year break, many of us are perhaps already counting down the days until the kids are back as well. I know, for example, that not having Peppa Pig on the television all day certainly makes me…
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Chinese Headmaster Sacked After Mining Set-Up Discovered
Chinese Headmaster Sacked After Mining Set-Up Discovered Despite the cryptocurrency craze having died off (quite significantly) since the start of the year, there are still many people who take it seriously. With a lower bitcoin price (which is generally the driving function though) it’s getting harder to make the ‘mining’…
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France Issues School Ban For Smartphones
France Issues School Ban For Smartphones When I was at school, smartphones were not really a thing. The worst thing our teachers had to contend with was us occasionally using the computers for games instead of work. What didn’t help matters much was when yours truly was able to infiltrate…
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Algeria And Iraq Shut Down Internet To Prevent Exam Cheats
Algeria and Iraq Turn Off Internet To Prevent Exam Cheaters Very soon, the world over, millions of people at school or colleges are going to be taking their end of year exams. With the proliferation of smart technology though, it can be hard to ensure that there is no cheating…
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Petition For Teachers To Qualify For Amazon Prime Discount
Petition Launches To Extend Student Discount On Amazon Prime To Teachers Although not necessary for everyone, I must confess that having an Amazon Prime membership does have its perks. Not only do you get access to the TV and media that they produce, but you also get super fast delivery…
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UK Culture Secretary Proposes Schools Ban Mobile Phones
UK Culture Secretary Proposes All Schools Should Ban Mobile Phones I consider myself somewhat lucky that going through school, owning a phone was never a thing. Well, that’s not strictly true. What phone you owned didn’t matter, if you had a mobile phone though, you were pretty cool. I personally…
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PC Building Simulator May Soon Be Used In Schools
PC Building Simulator May Soon Be In Schools PC Building Simulator launched last month and so far it has been very successful. With reported sales in excess of 100,000 units, for a reasonably low-level developer, that is definitely a good start. Allowing users to fully built a computer or even…
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Bomb Threats At UK Schools Revealed As Minecraft Server Feud
Bomb Threats At UK Schools Turns Out To Be Based on a Minecraft Feud In the world of online gaming, I’m sure that many of us have gotten into an argument with someone. Be it because of their camping or general play style. One such feud, however, escalated to the…
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Facebook Pledges Funding in ‘Digital Ambassadors’ to Help Anti Bullying Training in Schools
Can ‘Digital Ambassadors’ really work? Facebook is in the middle of a PR quagmire. Following allegations of being utilized for political influence or the spread of hate speech, they are also regularly criticised for the enabling of cyberbullying. In the last 6 months alone, Facebook has spent a lot of…
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