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Nick Siewert

Supreme Court Video Game Case: SCOTUS To Decide If California Can Regulate Games - 1 views

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video games violence law regulation free speech

shared by Nick Siewert on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Nick Siewert on 27 Apr 10
     
    Supreme Court of the US of A weighs free speech vs: violent video games despite absence of any definitive research.
Leslie Lieman

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working - 0 views

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shared by Leslie Lieman on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Leslie Lieman on 14 Feb 12
     
    For those of you who follow Michael Wesch, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University... he is rethinking his speeches, adding, "It doesn't matter what method you use if you do not first focus on one intangible factor: the bond between professor and student."
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...

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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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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.
Parisa Rouhani

Students to face cyberbullying charges - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Parisa Rouhani on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • threatening comments on a fellow student's Web site can be charged with hate crimes and defamation.
  • students began posting threatening remarks
  • The appellate court determined that the cyberbullying was not free speech and the students were not protected by First Amendment rights
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