Education

SEATTLE — When Microsoft acquired the creator of the game Minecraft in 2014, the giant software company instantly got a cachet bump with children, picking up a blockbuster game app for a generation that didn’t depend on its products the way their parents did....

Judging by the number of learning apps available to classrooms around the country, the education technology market aimed at elementary through high schools is booming. There are more than 3,900 math and reading apps, classroom management systems and other software services for schools in the United...

AWS has launched AWS Educate, an online service with self-paced labs, tutorials, and best practices for educators and students. Amazon wants to educate us on how to use the cloud. And several major educational institutions -- including Carnegie Mellon -- are on board to help....

IT STARTED WITH a fairly simple problem. The class of elementary education majors were looking at energy and efficiency. This course is specifically designed to help these students get a basic understanding of the nature of science (using the awesome Physics and Everyday Thinking curriculum)....