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Homework Wars: How Can Parents Improve the Odds of Winning?

By Guest PostAugust 20, 20101 commentEducationchildren, daphna oysterman, detroit area, homework, mesmin destin, psychologist, united states, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Children are more likely to do their homework if they see it as an investment, not a chore, according to new research at the University of Michigan.

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Back to School: Are Teachers Equipped to Teach ‘Digital Natives’?

By Guest PostAugust 16, 20101 commentEducation, Technologyanthony salcito, beth simon, bing, digital natives, educators, k–12 students, liveedu, Microsoft, microsoft education, military, onenote, steve kerr, teacher guides, Technology, university of washington

*Many teachers are using Microsoft tools and training to help prepare their students for the future, and are encouraging their peers to embrace using the technology that students are growing up with.*

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 16, 2010 — Educators are preparing to go back to school, and they’re starting to do so with more than pencils and books. The “digital natives” that fill their classrooms are restless, and teachers are altering their curricula to keep those students engaged and prepared for the future. Microsoft wants to help.

Digital natives are people who have had access to digital technology for most of their lives—in other words, most of today’s school children.

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Students Get First Preview of Windows Phone 7 Devices

By Guest PostJuly 9, 2010Education, Technologyadvanced technologies academy, anand Iyer, barbara kudrycka, christian hood, eric lo, hypo team, imagine cup, indonesia, jon perera, las vegas, malaysia, Microsoft, microsoft education, rock star, silverlight, tar college, team beastware, tselina, windows phone 7, windows phone developer, xbox, xna frameworks, zune

WARSAW, Poland – July 9, 2010 – Christian Hood and Eric Lo already knew that they had won the contest to see who had built the best application for the new Windows Phone 7, so they didn’t think it would be any big deal when they walked on stage to get their prize.

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How a Summer Internship—or a Weekend Lecture—Can Change a Life

By Guest PostJune 17, 2010Educationarpa-e, arun majumdar, berkeley campus, berkeley lab, center for science and engineering education, csee, department of energy’s advanced research projects agenc, emily chen, janet sheung, julie chao, lab physicist, larry pezzaglia, mark alper, MIT, nano*high program, robert cahn, roy kaltschmidt, susan brady, university of ilinois, urbana-champaign

Emily Chen still vividly remembers the lecture on gecko feet. She was an eighth grader attending Berkeley Lab’s Nano*High program to hear materials scientist Arun Majumdar explain how what he was learning about gecko feet might translate into a new adhesive product based on carbon nanotubes.

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Tech Student Projects Already Changing World

By Guest PostJune 8, 20102 commentsEducation, Technologycollege projects, imagine cup, imagine cup competition, polarvision, polarvision monitor, water monitoring system, worldwide finals

A student team from Russia will take technology that is already monitoring the health of a national park to the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July.

REDMOND, Wash. — Two months ago, fish started dying in the rivers and streams of Russia’s Zyratkyl National Park. Perplexed park officials wanted to know why, so they turned to a new water monitoring system called Polarvision. (more…)

Just fun or there’s a bottom line

By ShamsMay 30, 2008Culture, Educationperseverance

You are free to Eat! Enjoy………

-am I?

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Nobel Prize for Economics

By ShamsOctober 15, 2007EducationEconomics, Nobel Prize 2007

Nobel Prize for Economics, 2007, goes to Leonid Hurwicz (USA), Eric S. Maskin (USA), Roger B. Myerson (USA) – “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory” Leading Countries USA (6), UK (2) Germany (2), France (1), Independent body (1)

Nobel Prize 2007

By ShamsOctober 13, 2007EducationAl Gore, Nobel Prize 2007

Here are the names of this year’s Nobel Prize Winners and the reasons for their achievements as cited in the announcements Medicine – Mario R. Capecchi (USA), Sir Martin J. Evans (UK), Oliver Smithies (USA) –“for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells” Physics […]

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