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It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online," says Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and the lead author of the most extensive U.S. study to date on teens and their use of digital media. The study showed that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online often in ways adults do not understand or value.

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.

Giving away free books so that recipients can then donate money to charity. Fabulous idea, has authors like Gregory Maguire supporting them.

These authors have examined decades of research to determine which teaching strategies have positive effects on student learning.

This is a great site to find audio and video versions of some children's classic books, many read by the authors. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Students feel that writing a dissertation is a very stress full job. In this post author is going to share how he write a dissertation as a fun as well as how students make dissertation writing is an easy task.

Meet the extraordinary environmental activist, author, and animal rights activist who is most-known for his conservation work in the seventies and eighties, as well founding Fondation Franz Weber, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of the environment and the wild life, Franz Weber. "I fight for nature and for immaterial values."To read more about Franz Weber visit www.thextraordinary.org

"Editor's Note: Matt Weyers and co-author Jen Dole, teachers at Byron Middle School in Byron, Minnesota, present the fifth installment in a year-long series documenting their experience of launching a PBL pilot program."

"The Slate authors and Macnamara et al. dismiss the 10K hour rule too lightly, and their explanation of genetic/innate basis for expertise is too simple.  Practice is not the same as deliberate practice, or practice with a teacher. Expertise is learned, and we start learning at birth with expertise developing sometimes in ways not directly connected to the later activity. The important part is that we are able to learn to overcome some genetic/innate disparities with good teaching. We shouldn't be giving up on developing expertise because we don't have the genes. We should be thinking about how we can teach in order to develop expertise."

The film was shot completely at Natraj Studios, including the song Chingaari koi bhadke. Since authorities in Kolkata did not allow him to shoot under the Howrah bridge, fearing crowd problems, Later, an arrangement of the stream with the Howrah Bridge as outline was made in the studios and the song was shot in a water tank, with the team recording in knee-profound water. Watch Shekhar Suman unravels the absolute most fascinating stories of Hindi Cinema in Lights Camera Kissey. Watch it on SonyLiv.com

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The author provides a short history of information discovery that provides a fascinating context for the article.  You see the evolution of web info over the paste decade. You also get some true insight on how to consume information using social tools.  Abundant links to web 2.0 apps make this article well worth the time to read (and re-read it).  

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Education exists in an uneasy domain and the teaching professional is forced to navigate between a multitude of conflicting tensions. Our education systems are dominated by abundance of voices all shouting for attention and offering a solution to the problems they have diagnosed. Each individual claims expertise and insights gained from years as a student is sufficient experience to allow one to speak with authority. - Educators need to find their voice. 

"Happiness is not a warm phone, according to a new study exploring the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time. Teens whose eyes are habitually glued to their smartphones are markedly unhappier, said study lead author and San Diego State University and professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge."

"As part of our efforts to support the amazing community of schools, teachers and educators globally, we are delighted to announce that our plans for a 2020 UKEdChat Conference have been moved forward to June 2020. The 2020 event will be our second online conference, and many educators got involved in the first event, sharing resources, pedagogy and great ideas that can be used in the classroom. We have now opened our 'Call to Speakers', and we invite school leaders, teachers, educational authors, educational consultants and educational companies to create (upto) 20-minute videos that will inspire delegates during the 3-day event."

Emerge, a blockchain startup based in Toronto, is launching a public safety system app called Civitas to help local authorities in many nations fight against novel coronavirus pandemic. Although scientists haven't yet discovered any medications or vaccines that are proven safe, effective, and reliable to contain coronavirus pandemic, Emerge is working with Penta Network to solve the major challenges. Penta is recognized to have won numerous awards and honors for its pioneering work in blockchain.