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Japanese university students are using Minecraft workshops to help younger generations understand the cityscapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the 1945 atomic bombings, fostering a deeper connection to historical events through interactive technology.
Leading electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi has partnered with cyber-security firm Family Zone to offer cyber-safe hardware, solutions, and training to schools across Australia. The mission is to give Australian students the opportunity to learn about the dangers…
“Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers”. Froebel (who invented the ‘kindergarten’) possessed an innate love of science, nature and mathematics, believed in…
The current digital transformation has brought about sweeping change that not only affects the political and economic sectors of a country but most importantly, introduced a number of important social changes as well triggered by the growth of knowledge in…
Taiwan’s Eslite bookstore chain is set to launch its first outlet in Tokyo this week. The store opening marks Eslite Spectrum Corp’s 30th anniversary as well as the first time for the firm to start-up business in a territory where Chinese is not spoken. The…
ELSA has raised $7 million in a Series-A round from Google’s AI Fund Gradient Ventures and other U.S. investors. The investment round for ELSA, a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence and speech recognition technology to help language learners improve…
In China, there is a big culture of ‘practice makes perfect’. As such, school homework is a battlefield not only for Chinese children, but also for their parents, and teachers, who have the task of reviewing assignments. Technology is increasingly lending a…
Amazon will train 100 Vietnamese businesses to develop their business on its platform. According to the Department of Trade Promotion, Amazon Global Selling will identify 100 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for its “Supporting Vietnamese enterprises…
Samsung Electronics will expand investments to develop youth education programs, it said Monday. The company’s three division heads sent an in-house broadcast to employees that day to share a newly set mission: “Enabling people,” which means to help people…
Mastercard is bringing cashless payments to Hong Kong’s education sector through a seamless FinTech and EduTech platform, which enables the city’s first-ever integrated education app with multiple in-app digital payments. Through an exclusive partnership with…
Education is key to growing the participation of Southeast Asian women in the labor force, an Indonesian business leader said Tuesday. The Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment is pushing to extend the stay of girls in school to up to 12 years…
It may just be a marketing gimmick, but Apple’s latest initiative has all the elements to attract the crowd in its stores. The tech giant is planning to mobilize the mass to its stores by arranging educative sessions, dubbed “Today at Apple”, which would be…
Korea’s unyielding economic slump and more frequent corporate restructuring are driving employees to quickly prepare for a hazy future. These employees are referred to as saladents – a portmanteau of the words salaryman and student. According to a retail…
The line between browsing and buying online and offline in Hong Kong is blurring as technology enables nearly everything to become a digital touch point for consumers. Following the success of e-commerce boom in China, Hong Kong retailers are also keen to…
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