The original experiment let children interact with a PC via a hole in a wall A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for ...

Australian non-profit organization Green I.T calculates that a typical desktop computer uses 868 kW of electricity per year, therefore if a large company use 20,000 computers the amount of CO2 ...

Head of department Ollie Bray is using computer games to get his students excited about learning. Here, he talks about technophobia, teaching and trusting kids with tech We talk to Ollie Bray, the ...

We now spend almost half our waking hours either online, on the phone, or watching television according to a survey. The average adult is awake for 15 hours and 45 minutes every day and 45 per cent of ...

Look closely at the Chinese character for "house". Yes, it's obviously got a roof, but what's that under the roof? Rather stylised these days, it is, of course, a pig. Some 3,000 years ago - when the ...

A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education, a conference has heard. Professor Sugata Mitra first introduced ...