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The department of e-governance has proposed to integrate five welfare schemes with Aadhar numbers. The government has chosen to integrate services connected to employment, housing and pension schemes, hoping this will increase Aadhar's 'mass appeal'. The pilot project will include the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MNREGS) and the Rajiv Gandhi Awaz Yojana, the Ashraya housing scheme, Bhagyalakshmi and the social security and pension scheme.

Soon,old BSNL land phone connection will provide video calls, chats/conferencing facility, a feature which will be facilitated after C-DoT upgrades BSNL's existing telecom infrastructure to the Next Generation Network (NGN) - a process which has started & expected to complete within a year and a half.

In this six-part series, I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills in grades K-5 classrooms. Each list will highlight a few apps that connect to the various stages on Bloom's continuum of learning. Given the size and current exponential growth of the app market, I will also assist educators in setting criteria necessary to identify apps that maintain the integrity of teaching for thinking.

It\'s a telecom service like no other for the urban, educated, conscientious youth of today - a perfect communication solution for a busy, versatile lifestyle. Simply put, it\'s your digital partner. A companion who knows your priorities and enables you to stay connected to them. A cohort who understands you\'re fun-loving but hardworking and conscientious.

"Want to strike up a conversation with your younger relatives this Thanksgiving? Ask them about Minecraft. If they don't play themselves, they'll know friends who do. And maybe, just maybe, they're even using it in the classroom. More and more teachers are finding ways to integrate game play into their lesson plans. Using an educational and security-friendly version of the popular building game, called Minecraft EDU, teachers are engaging their students in social studies, language arts and engineering. "

Written almost 5 years ago and still relevant.

"As I was looking through Twitter yesterday, I was very excited to see this tweet from our friends at GeoGuessr.  We can now explore the world with GeoGuessr with an iPad and iPhone using the new app.   What fun news this is for our learners....and for all of us to play the best geography game online anywhere. "

"Media Literacy Week highlights the importance of teaching children and teens digital and media literacy skills to ensure their interactions with media are positive and enriching."

"When the bell rang for early dismissal on a recent afternoon at Cold Springs Middle School in Nevada, students sprinted toward the buses while teachers filed into the library, where posters filled with the names of every child in the 980-student school covered the walls. Taking seats where they could, the teachers turned their attention to Principal Roberta Duvall, who asked her staff to go through the rosters with colored markers and make check marks under columns labeled "Name/Face," "Something Personal," "Personal/Family Story," and "Academic Standing," to note whether they knew the child just by name or something more-their grades, their family's story, their hobbies. "