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Tasting Your Way to Balance

he six tastes are the codes that inform our nervous systems of a meal’s nutritional content. If we sample foods that correspond to each of these tastes throughout the day, our meals will provide awide assortment of health-promoting nutrients.

Twitter hashtags can connect you to people and conversations all over the world … 

The Hashtag: A Door to Discovery on Twitter

The hashtag has a metadata value. This means that all the content and conversations using hashtags can be discovered, mined and organized through search.

Study after study has analyzed how our increased Internet usage is negatively affecting us.

CNN reported on in 2009 painted a grim picture, linking excessive Internet use with social phobia, depression, and other psychological problems

Stanford University researchers in 2005 warned that those who use the Internet frequently spend about an hour less each day interacting with their familie

The role of a Personal Learning Environment may be not only that of a tool to provide access to ‘More Knowledgeable Others’ but as part of a system to allow learners to link learning to performance in practice, though work processes. And taking a wider view of artefacts as including information or knowledge accessed through a PLE, reflection on action or performance may in turn generate new artefacts for others to use within a ZPD

I believe that it is likely that we see a decreasing need of instructors as more knowledgeable others in order to learn something, but an increasing need of instructors as more knowledgeable others in order to learn how to learn something