Check out This American Life. Leans more toward comedy than tech, but touches on current events, etc. Always very entertaining. But if you're trying to do real work while you're listening, you'll be pretty guaranteed to get distracted. My fiancee and I just got back from a 5-wk road trip, during which TAL eps burned to CD were an invaluable source of entertainment in the car.
Not speaking in any way officially for the company I work for, but I did want to mention them as one good example of computers in education. It's a spin-off from the PACT Center at CMU, based on the cognitive psychology research of John Anderson et al. So unlike most companies, our stuff is actually backed up by peer-reviewed research that has been published in academic journals.
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Check out This American Life. Leans more toward comedy than tech, but touches on current events, etc. Always very entertaining. But if you're trying to do real work while you're listening, you'll be pretty guaranteed to get distracted. My fiancee and I just got back from a 5-wk road trip, during which TAL eps burned to CD were an invaluable source of entertainment in the car.
http://www.carnegielearning.com