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- Is our bacteria learning? [Pure Pedantry]
- GADLING TAKE 5: Week of May 10-16
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Nintendo sponsors Handheld Learning Conference
Filed under: News Nintendo isn't just teaching people how to play games in Australia. In fact, they're also sponsoring London's Handheld Learning Conference, for the second year in a row.
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Marriage & Intimacy
http://innerreflectionstranscribed.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ marriage-intimac…Whilst reading a report on “Sexual Abuse in marriage of South Asian Immigrants” I came across the following point which I found quite interesting: The points, assumptions and expectations of marriage in South Asian communities made in the report made me think of marriage and the topic of intimacy.
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Do the Math: We’re Lacking
http://www.edukey.net/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ do-the-math-were-lacking/“I can’t read.” Imagine the dropped jaws and stunned silence around the office conference table if a co-worker made that admission. Yet no one would blanch if that same co-worker announced, “I can’t do long division.” While literacy is considered a requisite in most workplaces, basic math skills
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Balloon Race
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ balloon-race/Balloon Race Filed under geography, learning games, reading The Canadian International Development Agency has an online around-the-world Balloon Race game accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. Players can move the balloon to different parts of the world by answering relatively simple questions about regions.
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Learning Mixed Martial Arts - Combat Phases
http://mixed-martial-arts-mma.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ learning-mixed-martial-art…Mixed martial arts, often referred to as MMA, is currently a growing phenomenon in the United States, though the sport has been popular in many other countries for decades. MMA brings together a diverse array of fighting disciplines into one competitive arena hence the sport's name.
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13 Days Project - Determining the List
http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ 13-days-project-determining-the-list/…[Warning - a long post describing an exhilarating process] The Background I have the pleasure of working with our AP US History teacher, Kevin Randolph, and the students on their final project of the year.
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Learning to Network and Networking to Learn
http://edtechlife.com/ ?p=2003Learning to Network and Networking to Learn May 16th, 2008 by Mark Wagner Today was Day 2 of the Technology Conference for Administrators at Tenaya Lodge just outside Yosemite. I presented Learning to Network and Networking to Learn as the second of two keynotes (the first was Chris Walsh’s Learning Everywhere All The Time).
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In The Beginning
http://moonlightbecomesme.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ in-beginning.htmlWhen I first began studying astrology back in the dark ages, these were the first two books I purchased along with the Zodiacal Indicator Wheel. While cleaning out my office of the ancient books I've collected through the years, I decided to post about these books as they were my initial source of inspiration.
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Nintendo sponsors Handheld Learning Conference
http://www.dsfanboy.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ nintendo-sponsors-handheld-learning-confe…Filed under: NewsNintendo isn't just teaching people how to play games in Australia. In fact, they're also sponsoring London's Handheld Learning Conference, for the second year in a row. The conference aims to, as one would imagine, instruct people of all ages on how to properly utilize handheld devices.
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Making your blogster feel great!
http://merzenich.positscience.com/ ?p=168I was at Scientific Learning yesterday, participating in the filming of a Canadian Broadcasting System-produced documentary, and during one break, had a brief discussion with Bob Bowen (the Scientific Learning President/CEO) about state achievement test scores in one Louisiana school district in which we’ve been tracking kid performance over time.
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Is our bacteria learning? [Pure Pedantry]
http://scienceblogs.com/ purepedantry/ 2008/ 05/ is_our_bacteria_learning.phpThis is a cool story, but not for the reason the authors are attributing. Researchers at Princeton showed that bacteria can evolve to anticipate future environmental changes. Here is the coverage in Science: Researchers already know that microbes can mount simple responses to changes in their environment, such as acidity fluctuations, by altering their internal workings.