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Kevin DiVico

MAKE | NEWS FROM THE FUTURE - Computer Chips Track Students - 0 views

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    Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with computer chips that alert parents if they are cutting classes, the city's education secretary, Coriolano Moraes, said Thursday. Twenty-thousand students in 25 of Vitória da Conquista's 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips this week, Mr. Moraes said. By 2013, all of the city's 43,000 public school students will be using them, he added. The chips send a text message to the cellphones of parents when their children enter the school or alert the parents if their children have not arrived 20 minutes after classes have begun. The city government invested $670,000 in the project, Mr. Moraes said.
Kevin DiVico

Full Spectrum: 10 Books on Sensemaking for the TED 2012 Bookstore | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    This week, I'm at TED, where I had the honor of curating a selection of books for the TED Bookstore around this year's theme, Full Spectrum. Here are my picks, along with the original text that appears on the little cards in the bookstore, and my blurb about the selection:
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