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Jennifer Jocz

Epoch Times - UCLA to Research Education Uses of Social Networking Sites - 0 views

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social networking

shared by Jennifer Jocz on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The school is partnering up with Health Net of California to tap into social networking sites in order to inform teenage users how to effectively use health care.
Jennifer Jocz

Generation 'Text': FB me - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology texting facebook Web 2.0

shared by Jennifer Jocz on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Older teens and Net Geners spend more than 20 hours per day using media. This is accomplished not by not sleeping but with considerable multitasking, which peaks at seven simultaneous activities for older teens.
  • preferred media choices differ dramatically across generations: For children, it's television; for tweens, it's video games; for teens, it's texting and social networking; and for Net Geners and Gen Xers, it's being online. And for Boomers, it's, of course, back to television.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 18 Feb 10
     
    interesting article discussing the difference in media choices across generations and the ramifications of these differences
Xavier Rozas

Heritage Key | Unlock the Wonders - 0 views

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Virtual avatar engagement educational technologies

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  • Xavier Rozas on 18 Feb 10
     
    Virtual world that allows people to learn about ancient history is actually holding a live music festival in the virtual space to motivate new users to interact and to entice would-be users to download the software the game requires
Mary Liu

Mining for Online Gold - 0 views

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  • Mary Liu on 19 Feb 10
     
    Discusses the chances of conditions conducive to life elsewhere in the multiverse and the growing practice of virtual gold farming, and whether it is cheating or providing folks with limited resources a chance for income.
Soomi Hong

Emerging Technology - 0 views

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technology games reality

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  • Soomi Hong on 19 Feb 10
     
    Imagine if SimCity wasn't just a game.
Soomi Hong

This is Your Brain on Video Games - 0 views

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Game brain

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  • Soomi Hong on 19 Feb 10
     
    Gaming sharpens thinking, social skills, and perception.
Uche Amaechi

Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed - 0 views

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T561 T545 internet tech

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  • Uche Amaechi on 20 Feb 10
     
    Is Google "really" making us stupid? How does the ability to easily access a breadth of information affect our motivation to go for depth?
Xavier Rozas

Full Spectrum Energy Lighting, Jerry Teplitz Enterprises - 0 views

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disruptive innovation technologies school

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  • Xavier Rozas on 21 Feb 10
     
    Phillips Corp, has been pioneering lighting designs in schools and offices to increase reading retention and attention rates. Interesting to think about emerging educatinal technologies in terms of incremental improvements to infrastructure as opposed to disruptive innovations.
Parisa Rouhani

Your Facebook profile: An open invite to crime? - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views

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shared by Parisa Rouhani on 22 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • consider how you, yourself may be actively violating not only our personal privacy, but your physical existence with the stuff you post on social networks every single day.
  • Thirty-eight percent of the Facebook and Twitter users surveyed posted their holiday plans online, and 33 percent shared information about weekends away. "Coupled with the finding that an alarmingly high proportion of users are prepared to be 'friends' online with people they don't really know, this presents a serious risk to the security of people's home and contents," the insurance company said in a statement.
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

Virtual meetups spark real fitness - CNN.com - 0 views

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social networking technology co-opetition

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  • Xavier Rozas on 25 Feb 10
     
    Social networking site for overweight people that breaks users into support teams that assist each other with mental and physical workouts.
Parisa Rouhani

Phones, paper 'chips' may fight disease - CNN.com - 0 views

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medical technology

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.
  • Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.
  • hey test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading
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  • solutions to complicated problems often are found in simple, low-cost technologies.
  • he paper may mold in humid, hot climates. And it's still important for people to get access to doctors so they know what to do about their diagnoses,
Parisa Rouhani

Gmail holds 'graduations' and 'funerals' - CNN.com - 0 views

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google

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • this system of color-coded messages is something he invented to save himself time and to organize the 100 or so e-mails he gets in a typical workday
  • Let people create products they'd use themselves, get those products out to the public as soon as possible, and make consumers think it's OK for things to break.
  • Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in a while."
Parisa Rouhani

Italy convicts 3 Google execs for privacy violations - Feb. 24, 2010 - 0 views

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google privacy

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • A judge in Milan found three Google executives guilty Wednesday of violating Italy's privacy code
  • Sucherman said a public prosecutor in Milan then indicted four Google executives
  • for criminal defamation and violation of the country's privacy code.
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  • judge found all four executives not guilty of criminal defamation.
  • egal codes do not require Google, the Internet or any other company to control content before it is uploaded to the Web.
Parisa Rouhani

Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

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perscription drug use

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  • While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.
  • tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.
  • Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,
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  • That stat is backed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which found that the main source of prescription drugs among non-medical users — a whopping 56 percent — was free drugs from friends and family.
Parisa Rouhani

No fair! Why your brain hates inequities - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

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brain activity equity fair

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • people prefer a level playing field,
  • Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information
  • humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.
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  • The researchers monitored signals in the striatum and prefrontal cortex , parts of the brain thought to be involved in how people evaluate rewards. They found that the brain activity in these areas was greater for the "rich" subjects when money was transferred to the other player than to themselves, whereas the "poor" subjects' brains showed the opposite pattern
  • n other words, everyone seemed to prefer a financial equality.
  • these regions were responding most when the outcome would be the most fair,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10
     
    research shows that people prefer equity in situations. fairness affects one's emotions about a situation
Kelsey Voigt

New From Nintendo - 0 views

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games engagement entertainment

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  • Kelsey Voigt on 26 Feb 10
     
    Nintendo recently announced new plans for both the DS and the Wii, including plans to release more action-oriented Wii games.
Uly Lalunio

Video Game Expands the Concept of Dark Energy for Mass Effect: Scientific American - 0 views

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Video Games Technology Games Engagement

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  • Uly Lalunio on 26 Feb 10
     
    "Introducing gamers to even the concept of dark energy is a step in the right direction. Someone might hear that term as part of a game and then hear it again in a more scientific context, and that might help them ultimately gain a better understanding of what it is. There's a tremendous untapped potential in games for incorporating cool science."
Jennifer Jocz

News: 'The Warcraft Civilization' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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world of war craft WoW virtual worlds MMOs

shared by Jennifer Jocz on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Seen as an educational experience, World of Warcraft does not belabor any one perspective, but offers people experiences relating to real social issues in a manner that encourages them to reach their own conclusions.
  • WoW does not indoctrinate people, but it allows people with a diversity of viewpoints to explore realms that are meaningful to them.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 27 Feb 10
     
    What one professor learned from playing World of Warcraft for 2,300 plus hours.
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