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“A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could. Think, for example, of the widespread use of the e-book, or the coming home to roost of debt problems around the industrialized world. Here is a bet and a hope that the next quarter century will see more change in higher education than the last three combined.” -Lawrence Summers Make it so. (Source: stevekinney, via notational) “Any customer with an Orange SIM and Internet-enabled phone in the AMEA will be able to browse Wikipedia’s mobile site at no charge, providing they stay within Wikipedia’s pages. The site can be accessed through a browser or Wikipedia widget. The partnership is part of a larger campaign by the Wikimedia Foundation to reach people around the world who access the Internet solely through their phones.” -Zachary Sniderman 
“Citeology looks at the relationship between research publications through their use of citations. The names of each of the 3,502 papers published at the CHI and UIST Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences between 1982 and 2010 are listed by year and sorted with the most cited papers in the middle.” (via Citeology - Projects - Autodesk Research) “But teaching computer science isn’t simply about learning to program. It’s about computational thinking, logic, reasoning, and problem solving too. These skills are imperative to what K-12 students should be learning. The challenge: finding the support among administrators and teachers to make learning computer science the way in which students gain these skills.” - Audrey Watters “For me MITx is a game changer for several reasons the most notable of which is their plan to offer credentialling in the form of a certificate of completion awarded by a new body within the university and to carry a unique name to distinguish it from a traditional MIT credential.” -Mark Smithers ” … limiting interaction between students of different ethnicities is not only harmful in the widely accepted sense that it hinders development of tolerance and empathy, Beasley argues, it also puts groups at an informational disadvantage. While she says she’s not insisting that these dorms should be eliminated, she says administrators should ‘acknowledge the consequences of their support for student requests to segregate themselves.’ ” -Allie Grasgreen “A little while ago I asked what my family should do for two weeks in San Francisco. So here, in no particular order, are the ten best geeky activities we found.” - Evan Predavec
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