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equally obviously, it is the marriage of technology to the individual tutorial which makes it all possible from an economic point of view.

an indication that things are changing for the better?

In fact, I'm never up in front of the board "teaching" the class for more than 15 minutes at a time. Let me explain:

Bad lecturing is dead (as it should be); a corollary is most teachers are bad lecturers (which they are)

How do you identify and avoid spreading misinformation, myths, and urban legends on the internet?

employ a healthy level of skepticism for what you're reading, watching, or otherwise consuming—on the internet or elsewhere

Snopes is "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation"—and for the most part, it actually does live up to that goal.

race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up

It opens the way for faster smartphones, lighter laptops and a new generation of supercomputers

Gordon Moore made his famous prediction in 1965 that computers should double in power every two years.

“Imagine more science classrooms where kids learned about sound waves by playing the flute, or understood mathematical relationships by creating digital designs,” said Dennis Scholl, vice president of the arts at the Knight Foundation. “Integrating arts into our everyday lives and learning is essential.”

To suggest that tapping this for educational purposes is pointless also suggests that people mistrust the medium as a whole and don’t understand how it can be used for good. We’ve already seen that Twitter and Facebook can help create change around the world. It can also do a lot of harm in the hands of bullies and criminals. But the technology is neutral. It can be made to work in a classroom setting if you set the right limits.