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Making Designs Real
Source: BBC website - http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57818000/jpg/_57818371_cubetoys.jpg Can you imagine how your classroom would be changed if the students could make the models and products...
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TEDxOkanaganCollege - Nikos Theodosakis - Mattering
Uploaded by TEDxTalks on Nov 1, 2011 "Mattering" examines the idea of relevance and real world learning in education. Through examples from his own work with schools, such as his InStill LIfe project,...
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Weatherford School District's Bring Your Own Technology Initiative Getting...
Posted Sunday, Jan. 08, 2012 BY MELISSA WINN mwinn@star-telegram.com WEATHERFORD -- As state budget cuts force school districts to do more with less, Weatherford school officials devised a low-cost...
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Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text
Peter Hoffman for The New York Times Health groups and school districts are using Web sites and texts to reach teenagers. By JAN HOFFMAN Published: December 30, 2011 While heading to class last year,...
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Body Suit May Soon Enable the Paralyzed to Walk
An international research team announces it has taken a key step toward achieving its goal of a 'prosthetic exoskeleton' that a quadriplegic could command by brain power. October 06, 2011 By Melissa...
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Ten Skills Every Student Should Learn
Posted By Meris Stansbury On August 11, 2011 @ 4:34 pm What students should learn in school is at the forefront of the education reform debates taking place across the U.S. and elsewhere. Ed-tech...
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The Benefits of Failure
By Peter DeWitt on January 8, 2012 8:19 AM When looked at correctly, failure can teach us where we went wrong in the first place, and how we can learn to pick ourselves up again in a pursuit to...
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Culture Desk: The First Church of Pirate Bay—The New Yorker
January 12, 2012 THE FIRST CHURCH OF PIRATE BAY Posted by Rollo Romig The city of Uppsala has seen its share of religious congregations. In ancient times, it was the main pagan center of Sweden, famed...
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Employee Reviews
Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig. I would not allow this employee to breed. This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite...
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The Year of the Multitaskers’ Revenge
By PHYLLIS KORKKI Published: December 31, 2011 The New York Times IT’S a far different work world today than it was even 10 years ago. Technology and the economy have converged to create a set of...
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Studio H: How Design/Build Curriculum Can Transform a Community
BY SUZIE BOSS 12/20/11 www.edutopia.org A billboard at the entrance to Bertie County, North Carolina, reads, "Design. Build. Transform." That's exactly what's been happening in this rural community...
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‘Gimme Your WiFi’: New Bullies Emerge in Smartphone-Crazy Korea
Seoul— Reuters Published Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 11:00AM EST Being the most Internet-connected country in the world has opened the way for a new form of bullying in South Korean schools, with victims...
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
Companies have been buying technology instead of hiring, and Okun's Law is broken source: http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-01-05/econ_technology02__01__600.jpg Bloomberg By David J. Lynch The...
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Researchers Turn Your Smartphone Into A Virtual Projector
By Michael Gorman posted Jan 22nd 2012 12:37PM www.engadget.com source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/22/researchers-turn-your-smartphone-into-a-virtual-projector/ Pico projectors are an easy way to...
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YouTube Now Moving at 3,600 Times the Speed of Real Life
By Tim Nudd January 24, 2012 www.adweek.com YouTube prides itself on its girth—on the sheer volume of cat videos and other ephemera (along with a handful of legitimately interesting clips) that are...
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Reed-Custer District Seeks Balance in 'Friending' Students
12/27/2011 10:16:00 PM Facing Facebook Reed-Custer District seeks balance in 'friending' students Marney Simon, Staff writer There are more than 800 million active users on Facebook, more than half of...
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Nurturing Curiosity & Inspiring the Pursuit of Discovery
The courage to make mistakes is related in some measure to curiosity, exploration, and the ability to speak honestly about a topic and about ourselves. For it is fear of mistakes, of being wrong, and...
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9nm IBM Nanotube Transistors May Outrace Silicon
updated 02:40 pm EST, Sat January 28, 2012 www.electronista.com IBM researchers have published results for a new nine-nanometer nanotube transistor that could redefine processors in the future. The...
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Youth Unlikely To Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering Jobs, Survey Finds
Joy Resmovits First Posted: 01/25/2012 9:06 am Updated: 01/25/2012 9:34 am Though President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address stressed the need for a competitive workforce, especially in more...
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Reading in the Digital Age
Students at Woodbury Middle School took reading into the digital age last month when they Skyped with author Hal Malchow. “For a lot of them it’s their first glimpse at someone who has written a...
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