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Leslie Lieman

Social-Networking Experiment at Ohio State Hands Students Control of the Recruiting Mes... - 0 views

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college technology education higher education recruiting

shared by Leslie Lieman on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Leslie Lieman on 14 Feb 12
     
    Since college recruiters know that only a small percentage of students open email, Ohio State is planning to let prospective students get in touch directly with current students via IM, email or phone.
Tom Keffer

Recruiting New Teachers With Loan Repayments - Metropolis - WSJ - 0 views

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recruiting teachers loan NYC

shared by Tom Keffer on 16 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Tom Keffer on 16 Mar 12
     
    Here is the latest volley from NYC in its maneuvering with the teachers' union. No particular relevance to technology, except that I guess this loan repayment offer would attract young teachers with loans hanging over them.
Katerina Manoff

School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

I've been reading a lot about this trend - I think it's equally prevalent in the US. I wonder how much of it is caused by our move away from school as preparation for career to school as a place fo...

social media text-speak sms language poor skills

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Katerina Manoff on 03 Mar 12
Parisa Rouhani

Music Helps Stroke Victims Communicate, Study Finds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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brain stroke

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
  • patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
  • there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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  • he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
Xavier Rozas

A Soldier's Story: training is serious when you could be deployed - 0 views

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education simulations training EMF

shared by Xavier Rozas on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Xavier Rozas on 10 Feb 10
     
    Talk about high stakes tests! These soldiers in basic training are learning about the tools of the trade in simulations designed to evoke emotional reactions not dissimilar to the ones they may face if deployed to a war zone.
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