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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Mercersburg Academy Students Stay Linked
During a tour of campus, Laura Burgess, our Mercersburg Academy guide, told us that students check their email four or five times a day for updates about on camps activities. Frequent announcements make sense on a school campus. It’s great … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Schools, Competition, Mobile PC Context
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QuickStart Learning with and without Tablet PCs
QuickStart Learning (QSL) refers to activities that provide a person with prompt changes in behavior. Some have called this eons old practice learning-by-doing. It is a generic category of immediate, efficient behavior change activities. QSL is to learning what instant … Continue reading
Seven Lessons of Leadership
David Gergen reports in Eyewitness to Power an explosion by President John F. Kennedy when he was asked by a group of historians to assess past presidents: “How the hell can they know?” he said. “They’ve never had to sit … Continue reading
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Be a Social Media Change Agent in School
Many schools aren’t taking advantage of social media applications as a way to connect with students, parents, and community members. A video interview with Groundswell coauthor Josh Bernoff, VP and Principle Analyst, Forrester Research offers suggestions for business that teachers … Continue reading
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Leaders Seek to Find Themselves
… leadership is a quest of men seeking to find themselves and that in so seeking, they shape the lives of other people. … At the core of every great political identity lay an idea – an idea imposed on … Continue reading
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Reading Defines Educated Person Core
As a school we subscribe to the idea that reading—and reading widely—defines the core of an educated person. The best preparation for active and engaged learning is reading. There is little question that the habitual reader is more inquisitive, more … Continue reading
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Summer Reading 2008 – Mercersburg Academy
The entire Mercersburg Academy will read at least one of these four summer reading selections: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, … Continue reading
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Demonstrates Control of Memristors
Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute AOB Chair, demonstrates control of memristors. This discovery could lead to computers that learn. A memristor is one of four basic electrical circuit components, joining the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. … Continue reading
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Nano Systems Academic Exchange Agreement
The signing of an Academic Exchange Agreement between the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and the Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES) of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan occurred on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at the CNSI Building. The Academic … Continue reading
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Nanomachine Kills Cancer Cells
Researchers from the Nano Machine Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into cancer cells in response to light.Known … Continue reading
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