Seeing is believing: the link between education and income

The graphical representation of relationships between education (high school and college) and income (median average by county) is pretty fascinating when viewed on a map.  Intuitively demonstrates what would take a while to understand if you only looked at datasets.

Infographic of the Day: Do Smarter People Make More Money? | Co.Design

We all know, at least vaguely, that a better education leads to better prospects in life. But is that really true? A superb map created by GOOD shows that it is -- but thanks to the ingenuity of the map design, it also manages to reveal a good deal more about the links between education and money.

Smartphone Apps come to the classroom

College 2.0: 6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Some of the most innovative applications for hand-held devices, however, have come from professors working on their own. They find ways to adapt popular smartphone software to the classroom setting, or even write their own code.