Can computer games sharpen your mind?
Answering the Call of Duty may not be every student's idea of fun, but you can pick up some valuable skills while you chill out
Can Twitter open up a new space for learning, teaching and thinking?
Two academics discuss the pros and cons of using Twitter as a learning tool to encourage instinctive thinking in higher education
Embarrassing old school photos are history: smile for a smart studio shot
Once it was a cheesy grin in a cardboard frame. Now kids do the 'Mobot' or pose like Charlie's Angels – and parents can pay to make the acne disappear
Do teaching models in higher education need reinventing? – live chat
Is the traditional lecture model still sustainable? Join our #HElivechat 15 March 12-2pm GMT to discuss alternative teaching models and techniques in a changing landscape
Why older people are not a case apart
Researchers studying the impact of the ageing process on products and services need to broaden their analysis to wider emotional and social networks, says Gabriella Spinelli
Did anyone as exciting as Will Smith ever shake the room at your school?
Open thread: Will Smith got schoolchildren (and Chuka Umunna) going when he visited a school in Brixton. Tell us who visited your school
Why women must be at the forefront of the technological revolution
Kathryn Parsons: We need to encourage and support women to learn to code in order to realise the full potential of technology
MDGs: how mobile phones can help achieve gender equality in education
Ronda Zelezny-Green: Mobile-based literacy projects can transform the lives of women in Africa and Asia, but access remains a barrier
What have you done with your Raspberry Pi?
Oliver Wainwright: From drones to drumkits, the Design Museum wants to see what you have made of your $25 credit-card-sized computer
Touch Surgery: the iPad app that teaches surgeons how to operate
Forget the board game Operation: this new mobile surgical simulator lets you tap and swipe your way through the steps of an operation in a radical new model of interactive training
Digital rights management: downloads, downers and a call for PDF publishing
Modern academics don't read supine, snacking on grapes, writes Jefferson Pooley – we need book formats we can annotate, search, print and share
Youth unemployment: can mobile technology improve employability?
We need better understanding of mobile learners, not mobile phones, to address the challenge of youth unemployment, say Linda Raftree and Nick Martin
Michael Gove’s officials act to clean up abusive @toryeducation Twitter feed
Move to ensure neutrality is tacit admission that government employees have been involved in operating propaganda feed
Augmented reality in education: teaching tool or passing trend?
AR shouldn't be another monster under the bed (or desk), says Judy Bloxham – used intelligently, it provides new ways for learners to access content and knowledge
Twitter: towards more fluid rules of academic engagement
Twitter is less real-time chat, more an ongoing conversation where acknowledgement still counts, says Ernesto Priego