At Berkeley review – four hours spent studying a university

Peter Bradshaw: Frederick Wiseman’s long documentary sometimes feels like a promotional video, but the emphasis on ideas is refreshing

Why the Big History project funded by Bill Gates is alarming

Katherine Edwards: As UK state schools increasingly follow the US model, someone with no background in education could disrupt the learning of thousands of children

Coding at school: a parent’s guide to England’s new computing curriculum

From the start of the new term, children as young as five will be learning programming skills in the classroom. By Stuart Dredge

Can LeapTV kids’ console compete with Minecraft, Skylanders and tablets?

LeapFrog’s new games console now on pre-order, but competition from devices already in families’ homes is tough. By Stuart Dredge

British Library gives teachers tools to inspire

Anna Baddeley: The Discovering Literature website is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages

Bookless library opened by new US university

Florida Polytechnic University's enormous facility promises to make 'many more books available for the students' in digital form

Teenagers are telling us they don’t want porn – they want sex education

Holly Baxter: Pornography routinely depicts women as nothing more than receptacles. We can’t stop it, but we can give young people the tools to understand it

Minecraft add-on LearnToMod aims to teach children coding skills

Developer ThoughtSTEM will release programming tool in October following 150-student beta test. By Stuart Dredge

Dan Snow: ‘Clearly an app is better than a book for history’

Historian talks apps, YouTube and how his next project puts rich archives in the hands of children at first world war battlefields. By Stuart Dredge

RoboThespian: the first commercial robot that behaves like a person

British company Engineered Arts' creation can hold eye contact with you, perform Singin' in the Rain – and even guess your age

The tales teens tell: what Wattpad did for girls

Wattpad was just another story-sharing app, but then it was discovered by teenage girls. Hazal Kirci, 17, explains how it transformed her and her sisters’ lives, and made reading a craze

Ninja Pizza Girl – a game about daughters and bullying

Husband and wife indie team Disparity Games were making a game about fighting robots until their daughters told them what teenagers are really afraid of: other teenagers. By Keith Stuart

In praise of … Suda On Line

Editorial: An online encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world sets a challenging precedent for scholarly publications

Rogeting: why ‘sinister buttocks’ are creeping into students’ essays

In an attempt to get away with plagiarising their work, unscrupulous students are using a thesaurus app to ring the changes on essays copy-and-pasted from the internet. The results are often hilariously inept

Ofcom: six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults

Children, growing up with YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, learning to use smartphones or tablets before they are able to talk