Toca Boca eyes kid-app acquisitions after 10m downloads
Says quality will pay off in children's market, but Android still lower priority than iOS. By Stuart Dredge
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motives
How to get into IT
To break into – and stay in – a role in information technology you will need to stay on top of emerging trends and be ready constantly to "skill up"
Wikipedia founder to help in government’s research scheme
Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online
Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future
Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with a heavy dose of utopianism and showmanship, and you've got the Singularity University – on a mission to seek technological solutions to the world's great challenges, writes Carole Cadwalladr
Girlhood explained online
Parents worry what their daughters are exposed to online, not realising there are sites where young women are helping each other to get through adolescence, writes Eva Wiseman
The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard
With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation's new favourite classicist talks to Stuart Jeffries
A life online: ‘For my generation it’s just normal, you get up and check Facebook’
Rosie Hickland, 17, is a student
Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge
Education in brief: further loans
Over-24s face having to take out a loan to study, while the government's shake-up of the ICT curriculum suffers a reorganisation
Children becoming addicted to video game fantasy worlds, teachers warn
Education union wants 'stringent legislation' to combat growing trend of young pupils acting out violent scenes in playgrounds
Open University signs up 1m subscribers on Apple’s iTunes U
52 courses have now notched up more than 50m downloads since launching in January 2011. By Stuart Dredge
Foxconn ‘work placement’ proves grim experience for one Chinese student
'You are standing throughout the day. It was tiring,' says one student who ended up working for Apple supplier Foxconn
Young coders: the experts’ view
Three different views on why we need to be able to program
A manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century
John Naughton presents his proposals for rebooting the computing curriculum to Michael Gove, the education minister
Why all our kids should be taught how to code
IT teaching in schools is in need of a radical overhaul. John Naughton explains what is wrong with the current system
Young coders: ideas for change
Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and their thoughts on the future
Young coders: the teachers’ view
Teachers agree that computer science is the future for schoolchildren. But a massive retraining programme will have to come first, they tell Lisa O'Kelly
Michael Gove appeals against ruling on misuse of email
Education secretary wrongly used private account for departmental business, according to information commissioner
Daniel Everett: ‘There is no such thing as universal grammar’
The rules of language are not innate but are born of necessity, says Daniel Everett
Memrise wants to turn learning into a ‘recreational sport’
Stuart Dredge: 'We're using crowd-sourcing, game-dynamics and lots of memory science' says co-founder Ed Cooke
Printed encyclopedias were once a rare source of knowledge. But no more
Ian Jack: Information – 'the sum of human knowledge' – had a different shape in the era of the printed encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica in the age of Wikipedia
Dan Gillmor: The end of Britannica printing its encyclopedia is really just a footnote in the great story of online access to knowledge
Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years
The paper edition of the encyclopedia has ended its centuries-long run, but is it a victim or beneficiary of the digital age?
The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program
These cheap, programmable boards should be used to equip children for a future that will be shaped by computer software, writes John Naughton
Why do we need maths? It gives us fun things to play with, for a start
Matt Parker: From protecting ourselves against useless insurance plans to creating computer games, numeracy is essential for our society
A week on the web: the Raspberry Pi
Graham Hayday: The launch of the £22 computer was so well received – but is it set to revolutionise the way in which children learn IT?
TED2012: What’s next for planet earth?
Day two of TED2012 in Long Beach, California featuring Regina Dugan, Paul Gilding and Peter Diamandis
The Raspberry Pi: reviving the lost art of children’s computer programming
Martin Belam: A generation of kids with little idea of what makes their prized gadgets tick could be given the coding bug by this computer
Demand for Raspberry Pi, the British £22 computer, crashes website
Design intended to inspire schoolchildren and adults to program sees overwhelming demand as first versions go on sale. By Charles Arthur
TED2012: the Geekfest begins
Liveblog: TED, the Californian brains summit, kicks off in Long Beach (all posts in Pacific Time)
New railway archive celebrates engineering giants
Original drawings and blueprints from Brunel to Stephenson right back to Wren go online at Network Rail archive
Distance learning breaches prison walls
Despite lack of the internet, prisoners can study via distance learning, but there are many hurdles to leap
Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part
The era of academic ebooks is imminent, says Jonathan Wolff, but there are still improvements to be made
The 50 new radicals
Last autumn the Observer joined forces with Nesta to find examples of inspirational Britons. Geoff Mulgan explains how we arrived at the 50 visionary projects