Colleges and K-12 campuses increasingly monitor student emails, social media, and more. Here’s how to secure your (or your child’s) privacy.
Education
Tips and Tools to Help Students Study, Take Notes, and Focus
Whether you’re in elementary school or college, these apps and services offer study guides, mindfulness exercises, and more.
How to Set Up an Apple Watch for Your Kids
Want to give your children an easy way to contact you—without giving them a smartphone? Family Setup on WatchOS can help.
Scans of Students’ Homes During Tests Are Deemed Unconstitutional
An Ohio judge ruled that such surveillance to prevent cheating could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.
From Space Battles to StageCraft: The Legends of ILM Discuss Half a Century of Movie Magic
For nearly 50 years, Industrial Light & Magic has been a proving ground for imaginative storytelling, bringing together like-minded individuals from a variety of disciplines to innovate the art of visual effects in filmmaking. In its infancy, ILM was a place for creating the impossible, where ingenuity was rewarded with results, critical acclaim, and box-office […]
Meet the Teams Building a Better Future with Star Wars: Force for Change
Disney, Lucasfilm, and FIRST® teamed up earlier this year to launch Build the Future powered by Star Wars: Force for Change; teams from around the world submitted their stories of science, technology, leadership, and perseverance to create a brighter future for everyone. StarWars.com is thrilled to highlight three out-of-this-galaxy teams from the campaign: Lunatecs from New […]
Meeting the Future of Learning with Confidence
In this article, Dell Technologies will look at the biggest technology challenges, trends and opportunities impacting the education sector today and draw on insights from our experts – and those of our partners at Microsoft and Intel – to share best practices that will help educators face the future with confidence. Research conducted during the …
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Our Favorite Language Learning Apps (and Online Courses)
Learning a new tongue? It’s a worthy pursuit, and these WIRED-tested services can help.
These Services Help Kids Shape the Future Through Code
Today’s children will be the ones who build tomorrow’s internet. These services want to make sure that future is inclusive.
Star Wars Inside Intel: Coruscant
Star Wars Inside Intel is a StarWars.com feature where Lucasfilm’s Emily Shkoukani, whose job is to know as much about a galaxy far, far away as possible, explores obscure facts about Star Wars lore and continuity. In this installment, Emily explores the city-planet of Coruscant… One of the most iconic planets of the galaxy far, […]