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Xiaodi Chen

China Is Finally Becoming A Lucrative Market For App Makers | TechCrunch - 0 views

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China games

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  • Xiaodi Chen on 15 Apr 13
     
    App market in China 
Parisa Rouhani

GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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ethics godaddy china google internet

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.
  • effort by China to increase monitoring and surveillance of Web site content
  • follows Google's announcement
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  • company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people
  • Beijing government has sought to tighten its censorship policies and undermine the ability of U.S. companies to operate freely.
  • This is a way the Chinese government can send a chilling message to people that they shouldn't speak freely online.
Shan Xu

Fake Google search engine emerges in China | ITworld - 2 views

www.itworld.com/...le-search-engine-emerges-china

shared by Shan Xu on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Shan Xu on 05 Feb 10
     
    Google left China seems to be an error
Tracy Tan

21st century classrooms needed for the future (Jorgen Lindgren Hansen, China Daily[CN],... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, posted here.) The article talks about re-organizing classrooms and schedules in order to cater to the needs of the 21st century classroom. At a time when new technology...

china classroom configuration schedule

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Uly Lalunio

Human behaviour '93 per cent predictable' - Telegraph - 3 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...r-93-per-cent-predictable.html

Human Behavior Technology Social

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  • Uly Lalunio on 27 Feb 10
     
    "Location data from mobile phones has indicated that 93 per cent of human movement is predictable... the researchers, from Boston, USA and China, believe that it could be useful for mobile networks' data load management, city planning and anticipating the spread of viruses."
Chris McEnroe

Education Week: Quality Concerns Slow E-Learning Growth in China - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...19el-chinaside.h31.html

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      Chris McEnroe on 01 Feb 12
       
      Yikes- talk about extrinsic motivation.
Parisa Rouhani

Virtually addicted: Weaning Koreans off their wired world - CNN.com - 1 views

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gaming Korea addict

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Cheong is down to playing two or three hours on "Starcraft" and "World of Warcraft" three times a week,
  • The South Korean government estimates that the country has 2 million citizens addicted to the Internet
  • Earlier this month a three-month-old baby girl succumbed to malnutrition while her parents spent 12-hour stretches in an Internet café playing the role-playing game Prius Online
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  • 22-year-old man returned to an Internet cafe to continue playing immediately after he murdered his mother, who had complained about his gaming habits. Physical exhaustion after long computer sessions has also caused deaths.
  • Internet addicts will also be offered free software with a timer that shuts down their computers or a "fatigue system" that bores players by making games slower and more difficult
  • Some of the suggested new measures to curb Internet addiction could collide with a gaming market that is expected to be worth $5.5 billion this year with a 17 percent growth rate
  • The companies make their money selling add-ons such as weapons, outfits and special abilities for the online characters.
  • Another novel idea to curb addiction is to punish excessive playing by confiscating gamers' virtual wealth.
  • We are examining various technological directions to prevent excessively continuous game play even for adults, and we are also discussing a special system that will allow children and teenagers to learn a healthy gaming habit,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 28 Mar 10
     
    This is an interesting article that speaks to the result of over-engagement. I wonder if this problem is specific to Korea and less so in other countries (if so, what is it about that environment that makes video games so addictive) or if it's only been studied in Korea but could be a similar problem in other parts of the world.
Chris Dede

Using Farmville to Teach Standards | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...mville-standards-linda-deneher

farmville standards learning curriculum

shared by Chris Dede on 26 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 26 Feb 11
     
    very popular amusement game may have educational value
  • Yang Jiang on 01 Mar 11
     
    This game seems to be very similar to a popular farm game in China. The different types of motivation (such as coin rewards) remind me of the extrinsic and intrinsic motivations mentioned in today's class.
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