The supermarket app

Last update: Tuesday 3/29/16

Here's an old one : "If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they ... ???" And here's a recent update: "If they can produce an app that beats the best human player at Go, why can't they ... ???" ==> Replace the dots with whatever is really bugging the person who is asking the questions. 

Hackathons for fun and profit

Last update: Monday 3/28/16

As the reader will see from the short list at the bottom of this page, this is my fourth note about making real world events more accessible to online viewers via Twitter and other social media, and it's my second pass at hackathons. Whereas my first note ("Disrupt Hackathons") offered suggestions to the organizers of hackathons, this one focuses on the Millennials who participate in hackathons.

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 3/26/16

Last update: Sunday 3/27/16 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = graphic from tweet that FBI uses Israeli company to unlock San Bernadino iPhone ... Other top stories = Google offers machine learning in its cloud ... R.I.P. Andy Grove, former Intel CEO  ... and Microsoft AI system learns racism on Twitter

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/26/16.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

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DLL Storify of Black Girls CODE Dallas Chapter: Build a Game in a Day! -- Saturday 3/26/16

Last update: Saturday 3/26/16 

The Dallas chapter of Black Girls Code held this workshop at Cedar Valley College. The workshop introduced game design and development, and encouraged student-driven learning, as participants thought analytically, designed, played and coded in real-time. 

DLL Storify of #HUHacks Hackathon -- Friday 3/25/16 to Saturday 3/26/16

Last update: Saturday 3/26/16 @ 7:15 pm

The #HUHACKS Hackathon (6 pm Friday to 6 pm Saturday) is an event coordinated by the Howard University School of Business (Information Systems) and School of Engineering (Computer Science) that is themed the "Startup Ecosystem."  The hackathon encourages participants to develop applications and innovations in any part of industry where startups have disrupted exisitng business models.

DLL Storify of Black Girls Code, Chicago: Build a Mobile App in a Day -- Saturday 3/19/16

The Chicago chapter of Black Girls Code held the latest version of this workshop at the Gwendolyn Brooks College Prepatory Academy. This workshop focused on mobile app development with MIT AppInventor! AppInventor is a fun and simple tool that allows young code divas to create their own mobile apps using drag-and-drop technology.  

DLL Storify of Black Girls CODE DC Chapter: Build a Game in a Day! -- Saturday 3/19/16

Last update: Wednesday 3/22/16

The Washington, DC chapter of Black Girls Code held the latest version of this workshop at the Capital City Public Charter School. The workshop provided an introduction to game design and development. It encouraged student-driven learning, as participants though analytically, designed, played and coded in real-time. 

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 3/19/16

Last update: Sunday 3/20/16 @ 4:30 pm

This week's cover = graphic from tweet that digital undivided launches BIG Innovation Center in Atlanta ... Other top stories = Alphabet (Google) partners with U.S. DOT to reduce urban congestion ... Apple and Dropbox leave Amazon's cloud  ... and  Apple says "No" to FBI ... again

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/19/16.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 3/12/16

Last update: Sunday 3/13/16 @ 5:30 pm

This week's cover = graphic from tweet that Google's Deep Mind wins 3rd straight, clinches best of 5 match against human champ ... Other top stories = @POTUS at SXSW 2016 ... Google, Microsoft join Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) ... and Howard University & DC Government partner to launch inclusive innovation incubator

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/12/16.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

Coding as a catalyst for reorganizing our failing K-12 schools

Last update: Friday 3/11/16

Last month Melinda Anderson published a short, controversial piece in the Atlantic Monthly, "Will the Push for Coding Lead to ‘Technical Ghettos’?" She quoted a few experts who expressed concerns that the recent proliferation of boot camps and grass roots coding organizations might succeed in teaching disadvantaged students how to code, but fail to teach them the more important underlying skill:  computational thinking. 

DLL Storify of @POTUS at #SXSW2016 -- Friday 3/11/16

Last update: Friday 3/11/16

President Obama delivered the opening keynote address this afternoon at SXSW 2016 where he discussed civic engagement in government and related topics with Evan Smith (Texas Tribune)

DLL Storify of <DIV> Hackathon -- Saturday 3/12/16 & Sunday 3/13/16

Last update: Sunday  3/13/16 

DIV Hackathon is the only youth and diversity-focused annual hackathon that is 100% organized and operated by students of color, in the United States.hackathon is held on the campus of Huston-Tillotson University. Located in East Austin, Huston-Tillotson University is Austin’s oldest university and only HBCU (Historically Black College and University). 

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 3/5/16

Last update: Sunday 3/6/16 @ 10:30 am

This week's cover = photo from tweet that Turing Award goes to developers of modern encryption ... Other top stories = Apple vs. FBI ... Pentagon innovation advisory board to be chaired by Google's Eric Schmidt ... and Raspberry Pi 3

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 3/5/16. 

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar