World Sunlight Map - 5 views
DNA Subway - 42 views
Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 41 views
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found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods.
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I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge,
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When they are later asked what they have learned, she went on, they can more easily “retrieve it and organize the knowledge that they have in a way that makes sense to them.”
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SISMICIDAD EN LA PENINSULA IBERICA.pdf (application/pdf Objeto) - 6 views
Google Moon - 3 views
Global Clouds -- Near Real-time clouds of the Earth - 51 views
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See where clouds form as part of a lesson on the water cycle or desertification with this 3D globe. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg - 35 views
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There are keynote speakers—often the people who created the technology at hand or crafted a given language. There are the regular speakers, often paid not at all or in airfare, who present some idea or technique or approach. Then there are the panels, where a group of people are lined up in a row and forced into some semblance of interaction while the audience checks its e-mail.
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Fewer than a fifth of undergraduate degrees in computer science awarded in 2012 went to women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology
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The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers
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Layers Magazine « The How-to Magazine for Everything Adobe Layers Magazine - 1 views
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DR Expose 2 Plugins Processing HDR images to get just the right effect can be as much art as science. The new HDR Expose 2 from Unified Color Technologies (UCT) aims to help you find the right balance between the two, so you get just the finished image you want without headaches and frustration. 0 Continue Reading Using Scripted Patterns in Photoshop CS6 CS6 One of the problems with pattern fills in Photoshop is the complete lack of randomness you get in shape, color, and position. Just think about it: a real brick wall isn’t made from perfectly identical bricks; each brick varies in color, texture, and even size. That’s why Adobe added the ability to apply scripts to pattern fills in Photoshop CS6. 0 Continue Reading 2D to 3D in Photoshop CS6 Extended CS6 Stephen Burns shows viewers how to take an image of a 2D object and transform it into a 3D object using depth maps in the new Photoshop CS6 Extended. 1 Continue Reading Corel AfterShot Pro Product Reviews Corel’s first professional photo catalog and RAW editing software, AfterShot Pro, is based on a number of technologies—Bibble Pro, Noise Ninja, and Perfectly Clear—that are widely known and respected in the photography world. It’s available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. 0 Continue Reading Photoshop CS6 Type Styles CS6 http://layersmagazine.com/photoshop-cs6-typ
Nature Soundmap - 85 views
YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA) - 79 views
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Help students find books based on the books they've already read, or use it for yourself.
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What a great tool, I am always looking for books to recommend to students that are pop press science. I entered Ghost Map and it gave some other great suggestions.
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Enter a book title and find similar books. Great for students!
Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey - 42 views
Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 89 views
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The Purdue study supports findings of a recent spate of research showing learning benefits from testing, including benefits when students get questions wrong. But by comparing testing with other methods, the study goes further.
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the results “throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included.”
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“Educators who embrace seemingly more active approaches, like concept mapping,” he continued, “are challenged to devise outcome measures that can demonstrate the superiority of such constructivist approaches.”
Google Sky - 69 views
Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 17 views
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Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
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“I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge,” said the lead author, Jeffrey Karpicke, an assistant professor of psychology at Purdue University. “I think that we’re tapping into something fundamental about how the mind works when we talk about retrieval.”
Science: A New Map of the Human Brain - WSJ.com - 75 views
Discover Map | Kids Discover - 32 views
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