"Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another."
Should South African schools be introducing videogames into the curriculum? Giving children experience points instead of traditional marks for projects? Intel's marketing manager, Ntombezinhle Modiselle, certainly thinks so - and she's got a growing body of research to back her up.
Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.