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Jac Londe

Brain-Art Competition 2011 - 37 views

  • The Brain-Art Competition
  • In order to recognize the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community, we are launching the first annual Brain-Art Competition. Countless hours are devoted to creation of informative visualizations for communicating neuroscientific findings. This competition aims to recognize the artistic creativity of our community that often goes unappreciated in the publication process.
  • We are inviting researchers to submit their favorite unpublished works for entry.  Both team and single-person entries are welcomed. The competition will have four award categories: 1)Best 3-Dimensional Brain Rendering 2)Best Representation of the Human Connectome 3)Best Abstract Brain Illustration 4)Best Humorous Brain Illustration
Martin Burrett

Science Video Competition - The 60 Second Science Challenge - 48 views

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    A yearly competition to record a 60 second science video. Category for primary and secondary age student. Register by 16 September 2011 and entries must be submitted by 28 October 2011. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/~Competitions+&+Charity
Martin Burrett

BBC 500 WORDS Competition - 54 views

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    Enter this Writing competition from the BBC for 13 years old and younger. Write a story in less then 500 words. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Competitions+%26+Events
Martin Burrett

BAFTA Young Game Designers - 39 views

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    Game designing competiton for students aged 11-16. Bafta in association with EA
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    A competition to find the best young game designer by BAFTA. Entrants must be 11-16 years old. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/~Competitions+&+Charity
Marc Patton

C-SPAN StudentCam 2012 - 0 views

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    C-SPAN's StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect our communities and our nation. This year students were asked to create a short (5-8 minute) video documentary on a topic related to the competition theme listed below.
Martin Burrett

7 Plenary Activities for Newly Qualified Teachers by @RichardJARogers - 8 views

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    "I loved competitions when I was a kid. Anything involving puzzles, quizzes or games really excited me. In truth: I loved being right and I hated being wrong! School can be quite a competitive environment. Some of our students can really feel the pressure when it comes to scoring highly on tests, exams and extra-curricular tournaments and events."
Mark Gleeson

The iPad competition: sell us the educational advantage, not the tech specs - 70 views

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    As I sat there respectfully paying attention, I spent most of my time thinking why do proponents of iPad alternatives spend so much time selling the technical specs that outmatch the iPad and so little time telling us how their preferred product will improve the way our students will learn compared to the iPad.
Marc Patton

ThinkQuest : Think.com, Oracle Education Foundation, Projects | Competition | Library - 0 views

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    This international competition challenges students to solve problems using technology.
Marc Patton

Siemens Competition - Math Science Technology - College Board - 0 views

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    In partnership with the College Board, the Siemens Foundation established the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology and the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement.
Penny Roberts

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisainfocus/PISA%20in%20Focus%20N42%20%28eng%29--... - 8 views

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    PISA paper describing the effects of choice and competition on social inclusion and school performance
Jac Londe

Electricity FERC - 10 views

  • Regulatory Changes by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • FERC Orders 888 and 889
  • On April 24, 1996, FERC issued Orders 888 and 889, which encourage wholesale competition.  The primary objective of these orders is the elimination of monopoly power over the transmission of electricity.  To achieve this objective, FERC requires all public utilities that own, control, or operate facilities used for transmitting electric energy in interstate commerce to: file open access nondiscriminatory transmission tariffs containing minimum terms and conditions, take transmission service (including ancillary services) for their own new wholesale sales and purchases of electricity under open access tariffs, develop and maintain a same-time information system that will give existing and potential  users the same access to transmission information that the public utility enjoys, and separate the transmission from generating and marketing functions and communications.
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  • Recovery of stranded costs is perhaps the most contentious issue confronting regulators in promoting competition.  Stranded costs (or assets) are costs that have been prudently incurred by utilities to serve their customers but cannot be recovered if the consumers choose other electricity suppliers. One study has estimated current stranded assets at $88 billion, and estimates of projected stranded costs range from $10 billion to $500 billion. In its Order 888, FERC reaffirmed "that the recovery of legitimate, prudent and verifiable stranded costs should be allowed." FERC's directive is grounded in the belief that the recovery of stranded costs "is critical to the successful transition of the electricity industry to a competitive, open-access environment." For this purpose, direct assignment of costs to departing customers was selected as the appropriate method for recovery of stranded costs.
Chris Betcher

60 Second Science - 118 views

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    Great competition for science students
Tonya Thomas

Publishers back Inkling's iPad textbooks | VentureBeat - 51 views

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    this segment of the market looks to be awakening and the competitive pool looks very interesting: iPads vs. Androids vs. eReaders...
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    this segment of the market looks to be awakening and the competitive pool looks very interesting: iPads vs. Androids vs. eReaders...
Ruth Howard

Free to Mix: An educator's guide to reusing digital content | Services to Schools - 4 views

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    There's a competition within this info that schools can enter..But Tge PDF comes highly recommended by Judy O Connell.
Elaine Higuera

Energyville - 68 views

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    This resource is about energy choices… maybe best for upper elementary/JrHigh. It is a game but you learn about different forms of energy (petroleum, solar, hydro, bio, nuclear, etc. You can create a group competition.
Nigel Coutts

Education: Competition vs Collaboration - 35 views

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    In a time where much of the debate around education is linked to performance on national and international assessments such as PISA, TIMMS, PIRLS and in Australia, NAPLAN combined with calls for market-driven reforms there is a danger that a climate of competition between schools and systems will grow.
Jac Londe

Big food corporations work with corrupt government agencies to eliminate "small time" c... - 25 views

  • Big food corporations work with corrupt government agencies to eliminate “small time” competition and take over the industry Published on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 by Mihai Andre
  • Three companies now account for more than 40 per cent of global coffee sales, eight companies control most of the supply of cocoa and chocolate, seven control 85 per cent of tea production, five account for 75 per cent of the world banana trade, and the largest six sugar traders account for about two-thirds of world trade, according to the new publication from the Fairtrade Foundation.
Oldie Library

Like writing? Enter Liz Kessler's North of Nowhere creative writing competition | Child... - 34 views

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Donal O' Mahony

What's your Story? - 38 views

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    Some of the students I teach entered a digital video competition. It set me thinking... I wrote.... Teenagers are very often supplied with information of the "Thou shalt not…" diktat rather than the " Go forth and create…" variety....
Javier E

Money Cuts Both Ways in Education - NYTimes.com - 19 views

  • If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.
  • This power spending on the children of the economic elite is usually — and rightly — cited as further evidence of the dangers of rising income inequality.
  • But it may be that the less lavishly educated children lower down the income distribution aren’t the only losers. Being groomed for the winner-take-all economy starting in nursery school turns out to exact a toll on the children at the top, too.
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  • There is a lively debate among politicians and professors about whether the economy is becoming more polarized and about the importance of education. Dismissing the value of a college education is one of the more popular clever-sounding contrarian ideas of the moment. And there are still a few die-hards who play down the social significance of rising income inequality.
  • When you translate these abstract arguments into the practical choices we make in our personal lives, however, the intellectual disagreements melt away. We are all spending a lot more money to educate our kids, and the richest have stepped up their spending more than everyone else.
  • spending on children grew over the past four decades and that it became more unequal. “Our findings also show that investment grew more unequal over the study period: parents near the top of the income distribution spent more in real dollars near the end of the 2000s than in the early 1970s, and the gap in spending between rich and poor grew.”
  • But it turns out that the children being primed for that race to the top from preschool onward aren’t in such great shape, either.
  • “What we are finding again and again, in upper-middle-class school districts, is the proportion who are struggling are significantly higher than in normative samples,” she said. “Upper-middle-class kids are an at-risk group.”
  • troubled rich kids. “I was looking for a comparison group for the inner-city kids,” Dr. Luthar told me. “And we happened to find that substance use, depression and anxiety, particularly among the girls, were much higher than among inner-city kids.”
  • “I Can, Therefore I Must: Fragility in the Upper Middle Class,” and it describes a world in which the opportunities, and therefore the demands, for upper-middle-class children are infinite.
  • “It is an endless cycle, starting from kindergarten,” Dr. Luthar said. “The difficulty is that you have these enrichment activities. It is almost as if, if you have the opportunity, you must avail yourself of it. The pressure is enormous.”
  • these parents and children are responding rationally to a hyper-competitive world economy.
  • “When we talk to youngsters now, when they set goals for themselves, they want to match up to at least what their parents have achieved, and that is harder to do.”
  • we live in individualistic democracies whose credo is that anyone can be a winner if she tries. But we are also subject to increasingly fierce winner-take-all forces, which means the winners’ circle is ever smaller, and the value of winning is ever higher.
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